Escalating China-Taiwan Tensions Fuel Alarming Surge in Cyber Attacks

The rising geopolitical tensions between China and Taiwan in recent months have sparked a noticeable uptick in cyber attacks on the East Asian island country. "From malicious emails and URLs to malware, the strain between China's claim of Taiwan as part of its territory and Taiwan's maintained...

Researchers Uncover Packer Used by Several Malware to Evade Detection for 6 Years

A shellcode-based packer dubbed TrickGate has been successfully operating without attracting notice for over six years, while enabling threat actors to deploy a wide range of malware such as TrickBot, Emotet, AZORult, Agent Tesla, FormBook, Cerber, Maze, and REvil over the years. "TrickGate manag...

Researchers Uncover Packer Used by Several Malware to Evade Detection for 6 Years

A shellcode-based packer dubbed TrickGate has been successfully operating without attracting notice for over six years, while enabling threat actors to deploy a wide range of malware such as TrickBot, Emotet, AZORult, Agent Tesla, FormBook, Cerber, Maze, and REvil over the years. "TrickGate manag...

Quarterly Report: Incident Response Trends in Q4 2022

Syncro, a remote management and monitoring tool, emerges as an increasingly common tool for adversaries. By Caitlin Huey. Ransomware continued to be a top threat Cisco Talos Incident Response Talos IR responded to this quarter, with appearances from both previously seen and newly observed...

52 Critical Infrastructure Orgs Hit by Ragnar Locker Ransomware Gang – FBI

By Deeba Ahmed According to the FBIs advisory, Ragnar Locker ransomware operators have targeted ten different sectors including energy, manufacturing, government,… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 52 Critical Infrastructure Orgs Hit by Ragnar Locker Ransomware Gang - FBI...

China-linked Daxin Malware Targeted Multiple Governments in Espionage Attacks

A previously undocumented espionage tool has been deployed against selected governments and other critical infrastructure targets as part of a long-running espionage campaign orchestrated by China-linked threat actors since at least 2013. Broadcom's Symantec Threat Hunter team characterized the...

Targeted Phishing Attacks Strike High-Ranking Company Executives

An evolving phishing campaign observed at least since May 2020 has been found to target high-ranking company executives across manufacturing, real estate, finance, government, and technological sectors with the goal of obtaining sensitive information. The campaign hinges on a social engineering...

QakBot Banking Trojan Returned With New Sneaky Tricks to Steal Your Money

A notorious banking trojan aimed at stealing bank account credentials and other financial information has now come back with new tricks up its sleeve to target government, military, and manufacturing sectors in the US and Europe, according to new research. In an analysis released by Check Point...

ICSA-20-098-05_KUKA.Sim Pro

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 4.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: KUKA Equipment: Sim Pro Vulnerability: Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability...

FormBook Malware Targets U.S. Defense Contractors, Aerospace and Manufacturing Sectors

Attackers spreading new malware called FormBook are singling out aerospace firms, defense contractors and some manufacturing organizations in the United States and South Korea. According to researchers at FireEye, FormBook was spotted in several high-volume distribution campaigns targeting the U....

Schneider Electric Accutech Manager Heap Overflow

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability that impacts the Schneider Electric Accutech Manager. Independent researcher Aaron Portnoy of Exodus Intelligence has identified a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Schneider Electric’s Accutech Manager application...

ICS, SCADA Attacks Targeted and Disruptive

Honeypots and honeynets have long been used as enticements to lure hackers into a false network in order to study attacks. While long a favorite of many high-end enterprises and security researchers studying attacks against traditional IT infrastructures, a number of industrial control system...