Hackers turn to Signal, Telegram and Dark Web to assist Iranian protestors

By Waqas Hackers are actively using encrypted chat apps like Signal and Telegram to share stolen data belonging to the Iranian government, tutorials on how to hack, and use VPNs and Tor to bypass censorship. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers turn to Signal, Telegram...

Mystery Hackers Are ‘Hyperjacking’ Targets for Insidious Spying

For decades, security researchers warned about techniques for hijacking virtualization software. Now one group has put them into practice...

Ukraine Busts Pro-Russia Hackers Who Stole 30M Accounts of EU Citizens

By Waqas According to the Ukraine Security Service SSU, the hackers were selling the hacked accounts to "Russian propagandists" through the dark web. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ukraine Busts Pro-Russia Hackers Who Stole 30M Accounts of EU Citizens...

CVE-2022-1532

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North Korean Hackers Spreading Trojanized Versions of PuTTY Client Application

A threat with a North Korea nexus has been found leveraging a "novel spear phish methodology" that involves making use of trojanized versions of the PuTTY SSH and Telnet client. Google-owned threat intelligence firm Mandiant attributed the new campaign to an emerging threat cluster it tracks unde...

US Charges 3 Iranian Hackers Over Ransomware Attacks

By Deeba Ahmed All the indicted Iranian nationals are supposedly residing in Iran, which is why their extradition to the USA is not possible unless they travel to a country that has an extradition agreement with the USA. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US Charges 3 Irania...

U.S. Charges 3 Iranian Hackers and Sanctions Several Others Over Ransomware Attacks

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC on Wednesday announced sweeping sanctions against ten individuals and two entities backed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC for their involvement in ransomware attacks at least since October 2020. The agency said...

FBI Seizes Stolen Cryptocurrencies

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FBI has recovered over $30 million in cryptocurrency stolen by North Korean hackers earlier this year. Its only a fraction of the $540 million stolen, but its something. The Axie Infinity recovery represents a shift in law enforcements ability to trac...

Hackers Target Los Angeles School District With Ransomware

Plus: Albania cuts ties with Iran, claims of a TikTok data breach that didn’t happen, and much more...

Worok Hackers Targeting Orgs, Govts in Asia, Middle East and Africa

By Deeba Ahmed Worok is primarily targeting organizations in banking, telecommunication, marine, military, energy, public sectors, and government in its current campaign. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Worok Hackers Targeting Orgs, Govts in Asia, Middle East and Africa...

Chinese Hackers Target Government Officials in Europe, South America, and Middle East

A Chinese hacking group has been attributed to a new campaign aimed at infecting government officials in Europe, the Middle East, and South America with a modular malware known as PlugX. Cybersecurity firm Secureworks said it identified the intrusions in June and July 2022, once again demonstrati...

North Korean Hackers Deploying New MagicRAT Malware in Targeted Campaigns

The prolific North Korean nation-state actor known as the Lazarus Group has been linked to a new remote access trojan called MagicRAT. The previously unknown piece of malware is said to have been deployed in victim networks that had been initially breached via successful exploitation of...

TikTok Denies Data Breach After Hackers Claim Stealing 2 Billion Records

By Deeba Ahmed Reports of the supposed hacking of TikTok appeared on September 3rd, 2022 on the Breach Forums which surfaced as an alternative to popular and now-sized Raidforums. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: TikTok Denies Data Breach After Hackers Claim Stealing 2...

Hackers spreading malware through images taken by James Webb Space Telescope

By Waqas Researchers have identified a new Golang-based malware campaign leveraging deep field images from the James Webb Space Telescope to deploy malware on infected devices. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers spreading malware through images taken by James Webb...

Chinese Hackers Used ScanBox Framework in Recent Cyber Espionage Attacks

A months-long cyber espionage campaign undertaken by a Chinese nation-state group targeted several entities with reconnaissance malware so as to glean information about its victims and meet its strategic goals. "The targets of this recent campaign spanned Australia, Malaysia, and Europe, as well ...

Google Introduces Bug Bounty Program for Open-Source Software

By Deeba Ahmed Through the bug bounty program, ethical hackers will get rewards ranging from $100 - $31,337, depending on their discovered bug’s severity. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google Introduces Bug Bounty Program for Open-Source Software...

NATO Probes Hackers Selling Data from Top Missile Firm MBDA

By Waqas MBDA is the world's 2nd largest manufacturer of missiles and currently, hackers are selling 70 GB worth of its alleged data for 1 BTC on a Russian forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: NATO Probes Hackers Selling Data from Top Missile Firm MBDA...

Iranian Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Log4j 2 Bugs to Target Israeli Organizations

Iranian state-sponsored actors are leaving no stone unturned to exploit unpatched systems running Log4j to target Israeli entities, indicating the vulnerability's long tail for remediation. Microsoft attributed the latest set of activities to the umbrella threat group tracked as MuddyWater aka...

LastPass Security Breach – Hackers Steal Company’s Source Code

By Deeba Ahmed In an advisory, password manager and vault app LastPass confirmed the stealing of its internal source code and technical documents. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LastPass Security Breach - Hackers Steal Companys Source Code...

SolarWinds Hackers Using New Post-Exploitation Backdoor ‘MagicWeb’

By Deeba Ahmed Microsoft has warned that the new post-compromise backdoor MagicWeb lets hackers "authenticate as anyone." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SolarWinds Hackers Using New Post-Exploitation Backdoor MagicWeb...