Sharp Panda Using New Soul Framework Version to Target Southeast Asian Governments

High-profile government entities in Southeast Asia are the target of a cyber espionage campaign undertaken by a Chinese threat actor known as Sharp Panda since late last year. The intrusions are characterized by the use of a new version of the Soul modular framework, marking a departure from the...

Bitter APT Hackers Continue to Target Bangladesh Military Entities

Military entities located in Bangladesh continue to be at the receiving end of sustained cyberattacks by an advanced persistent threat tracked as Bitter. "Through malicious document files and intermediate malware stages the threat actors conduct espionage by deploying Remote Access Trojans,"...

SideWinder Hackers Launched Over a 1,000 Cyber Attacks Over the Past 2 Years

An "aggressive" advanced persistent threat APT group known as SideWinder has been linked to over 1,000 new attacks since April 2020. "Some of the main characteristics of this threat actor that make it stand out among the others, are the sheer number, high frequency and persistence of their attack...

Snake Keylogger Spreads Through Malicious PDFs

While most malicious e-mail campaigns use Word documents to hide and spread malware, a recently discovered campaign uses a malicious PDF file and a 22-year-old Office bug to propagate the Snake Keylogger malware, researchers have found. The campaign—discovered by researchers at HP Wolf...

Cyberespionage APT Now Identified as Three Separate Actors

A threat group responsible for sophisticated cyberespionage attacks against U.S. utilities is actually comprised of three subgroups, all with their own toolsets and targets, that have been operating globally since 2018, researchers have found. TA410 is a cyberespionage umbrella group loosely link...

Living Off the Land: How to Defend Against Malicious Use of Legitimate Utilities

Living-off-the-land binaries LOLBins are no joke: Cyberattackers have been increasingly making use of them to hide their malicious work from security solutions. It’s time for threat hunters and IT security staff to familiarize themselves with how these are used in the attack chains of some of the...

Researchers Uncover Cyber Espionage Operation Aimed At Indian Army

Cybersecurity researchers uncovered fresh evidence of an ongoing cyberespionage campaign against Indian defense units and armed forces personnel at least since 2019 with an aim to steal sensitive information. Dubbed "Operation SideCopy " by Indian cybersecurity firm Quick Heal, the attacks have...

Researchers Uncover Cyber Espionage Operation Aimed At Indian Army

Cybersecurity researchers uncovered fresh evidence of an ongoing cyberespionage campaign against Indian defense units and armed forces personnel at least since 2019 with an aim to steal sensitive information. Dubbed "Operation SideCopy" by Indian cybersecurity firm Quick Heal, the attacks have be...

Coronavirus-Themed APT Attack Spreads Malware

An advanced persistent threat APT group is leveraging the coronavirus pandemic to infect victims with a previously unknown malware, in a recently discovered campaign that researchers call “Vicious Panda.” Researchers identified two suspicious Rich Text Format files RTF — a text file format used b...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: NanoCore – Old Malware, New Tricks!

In analyzing the stream of raw emails seen in the wild, TAU discovered a campaign of what first appeared to be a fairly standard spear-phishing attack. The email contained a Word document which carried an exploit for CVE-2017-11882, a vulnerability that allows for Microsoft Office documents to ru...

A CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability is a new variation of a sample of the debugging and analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently harvested a suffix called doc word document, view the After is actually a rich text format document. In a test environment to open after the discovery of a network connection and executing a program of action, determine the sample is malware document. After a preliminary analysis, found...

ThreatList: Microsoft Macros Remain Top Vector for Malware Delivery

Attacks using malicious Microsoft macros, always a popular method for compromising target machines, are more virulent than ever, accounting for 45 percent of all delivery mechanisms analyzed in August. Top Malware Delivery Mechanisms in August Just behind this tried-and-true method lies the...

An attacker with Office vulnerability propagation FELIXROOT Backdoor-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! One, the attack event details 2017 9 months, in response to Ukrainian attacks, FireEye found FELIXROOT Backdoor this malicious payload, and feedback to our intelligence perception of the customers. The attack activities using some malicious Ukrainian banks document that contains a macro, used t...

Kronos Banking Trojan Surfaces After Years of Silence

The Kronos banking trojan is back from the malware dustbin. After years of lying dormant, hackers have reworked the underlying code and are actively targeting victims in Germany, Japan and Poland. The latest variant has incorporated a new command-and-control feature designed to work with the Tor...

The vulnerability of the Equation Editor component in the Microsoft Office software package allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the Equation Editor component in the Microsoft Office software package arises from an operation that goes beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code...

The vulnerability of the Equation Editor component in the Microsoft Office software package allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the Equation Editor component within the Microsoft Office software package arises from an operation that goes beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code...

The vulnerability of the Equation Editor component in the Microsoft Office software package allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the Equation Editor component in the Microsoft Office software package arises from an operation that goes beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code...

The vulnerability of the Equation Editor component in the Microsoft Office software package allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the Equation Editor component in the Microsoft Office software package arises from an operation that goes beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code...

Word Attachment Delivers FormBook Malware, No Macros Required

A new wave of document attacks targeting inboxes do not require enabling macros in order for adversaries to trigger an infection chain that ultimately delivers FormBook malware. Researchers at Menlo Security are reporting a wave of attacks that began last month that are targeting financial and...

The vulnerability of the editor for mathematical formulas and equations in the Microsoft Word text editor, as well as in the Microsoft Office suite of programs and the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the editor for mathematical formulas and equations in the Microsoft Word text editor, as well as in the Microsoft Office suite of programs and the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, arises due to an operation that goes beyond the buffer in memory. Exploiting this...