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PYSA Emerges as Top Ransomware Actor in November
PYSA, which is also known by Mespinoza, has overtaken Conti as the top ransomware threat group for the month of November. It joined Lockbit, which has dominated the space since August. According to NCC Group’s November insights on the ransomware sector, PYSA increased its market share with a 50...
Karakurt: A New Emerging Data Theft and Cyber Extortion Hacking Group
A previously undocumented, financially motivated threat group has been connected to a string of data theft and extortion attacks on over 40 entities between September and November 2021. The hacker collective, which goes by the self-proclaimed name Karakurt and was first identified in June 2021, i...
ScarCruft APT Mounts Desktop/Mobile Double-Pronged Spy Attacks
The North Korea-linked ScarCruft advanced persistent threat APT group has developed a fresh, multiplatform malware family for attacking North Korean defectors, journalists and government organizations involved in Korean Peninsula affairs. Since 2019, ScarCruft aka APT37 or Temp.Reaper has been...
New Chinotto Spyware Targets North Korean Defectors, Human Rights Activists
North Korean defectors, journalists who cover North Korea-related news, and entities in South Korea are being zeroed in on by a nation-state-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT as part of a new wave of highly-targeted surveillance attacks. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky attributed the...
Hackers Using Compromised Google Cloud Accounts to Mine Cryptocurrency
Threat actors are exploiting improperly-secured Google Cloud Platform GCP instances to download cryptocurrency mining software to the compromised systems as well as abusing its infrastructure to install ransomware, stage phishing campaigns, and even generate traffic to YouTube videos for view cou...
ScarCruft surveilling North Korean defectors and human rights activists
The ScarCruft group also known as APT37 or Temp.Reaper is a nation-state sponsored APT actor we first reported in 2016. ScarCruft is known to target North Korean defectors, journalists who cover North Korea-related news and government organizations related to the Korean Peninsula, between others...
Google’s Threat Horizons report: Will the straightforward approach get results?
Google’s Cybersecurity Action Team has released a Threat Horizons report focusing on cloud security. It’s taken some criticism for being surprisingly straightforward and less complex than you may expect. On the other hand, many businesses simply don’t understand many of the threats at large...
North Korean Hackers Found Behind a Range of Credential Theft Campaigns
A threat actor with ties to North Korea has been linked to a prolific wave of credential theft campaigns targeting research, education, government, media and other organizations, with two of the attacks also attempting to distribute malware that could be used for intelligence gathering. Enterpris...
North Korean Hackers Target Cybersecurity Researchers with Trojanized IDA Pro
Lazarus, the North Korea-affiliated state-sponsored group, is attempting to once again target security researchers with backdoors and remote access trojans using a trojanized pirated version of the popular IDA Pro reverse engineering software. The findings were reported by ESET security researche...
[Security Nation] Michael Powell on Being a Cyber Envoy
!\Security Nation\ Michael Powell on Being a Cyber Envoyhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/11/securitynationlogo--1--1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Michael Powell about his work as specialist cyber representative to North America for the UK's Department f...
North Korean attackers use malicious blogs to deliver malware to high-profile South Korean targets
By Jung soo An and Asheer Malhotra, with contributions from Kendall McKay. Cisco Talos has observed a new malware campaign operated by the Kimsuky APT group since June 2021.Kimsuky, also known as Thallium and Black Banshee, is a North Korean state-sponsored advanced... This is only the beginning!...
New Wslink Malware Loader Runs as a Server and Executes Modules in Memory
Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday took the wraps off a "simple yet remarkable" malware loader for malicious Windows binaries targeting Central Europe, North America and the Middle East. Codenamed "Wslink" by ESET, this previously undocumented malware stands apart from the rest in that it run...
SolarWinds APT Targets Tech Resellers in Latest Supply-Chain Cyberattacks
The SolarWinds attackers – an advanced persistent threat APT known as Nobelium – have started a new wave of supply-chain intrusions, this time using the technology reseller/service provider community to attack their targets. The activity has affected victims in North America and Europe thus far,...
Microsoft Digital Defense Report shares new insights on nation-state attacks
Microsoft is proud to promote Cybersecurity Awareness Month as part of our ongoing commitment to security for all. Year-round, Microsoft tracks nation-state threat activities to help protect organizations and individuals from these advanced persistent actors. We’re constantly improving our...
TA505 Gang Is Back With Newly Polished FlawedGrace RAT
The TA505 cybercrime group is whirring its financial rip-off machinery back up, pelting malware at a range of industries in what was initially low-volume waves that researchers saw spiral up late last month. They do bad things, but they’re so tricky that tracking them is a ton of fun, said Sherro...
Twitter Suspends Accounts Used to Snare Security Researchers
Twitter has shuttered two accounts – @lagal1990 and @shiftrows13 – specifically used to trick security researchers into downloading malware in a long-running cyber-espionage campaign attributed to North Korea. The campaign was first discovered by the Google Threat Analysis Group TAG in January an...
Ransomware Group FIN12 Aggressively Going After Healthcare Targets
An "aggressive" financially motivated threat actor has been identified as linked to a string of RYUK ransomware attacks since October 2018, while maintaining close partnerships with TrickBot-affiliated threat actors and using a publicly available arsenal of tools such as Cobalt Strike Beacon...
shop.commerce.nd.gov Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2143784
Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
US Media, Retailers Targeted by New SparklingGoblin APT
An emerging international cybergang is broadening its targets to include North American media firms, universities and one computer retailer. The advanced persistent threat APT group is new, according to researchers who dubbed it SparklingGoblin. Also new is a novel backdoor technique, called...
New variant of Konni malware used in campaign targetting Russia
This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi In late July 2021, we identified an ongoing spear phishing campaign pushing Konni Rat to target Russia. Konni was first observed in the wild in 2014 and has been potentially linked to the North Korean APT group named APT37. We discovered two documents...