Threat Source newsletter (Feb. 9, 2023): Don't let criminals exploit your empathy

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Our hearts are with the people of Turkey and Syria and all those impacted by the tragic earthquake. The Cisco Foundation has launched a matching campaign to support local disaster relief organizations. As a person its always difficult...

Mustang Panda APT targets Europe with customized PlugX malware

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Mustang Panda APT group has been targeting government and public sector organizations across Asia and Europe since at least 2019. Recently, the group has shifted from using archive files to using...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 30 January to 5 February 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Hive Pro discovered four actors that have been active in the past week. The first, Sandworm Team, is a well-known Russian threat actor known for Sabotage and destruction. The...

CISA Releases ESXiArgs Ransomware Recovery Script

CISA has released a recovery script for organizations that have fallen victim to ESXiArgs ransomware. The ESXiArgs ransomware encrypts configuration files on vulnerable ESXi servers, potentially rendering virtual machines VMs unusable. CISA recommends organizations impacted by ESXiArgs evaluate t...

The rise of multi-threat ransomware

Today we have a ten minute YouTube expedition into the murky world of ransomware. In the video, "The rise of multi-threat ransomware" embedded below, I cover a couple of key talking points that always seem to come up in conversation. Single, double, triple? The video covers how ransomware made th...

Iranian OilRig Hackers Using New Backdoor to Exfiltrate Data from Govt. Organizations

The Iranian nation-state hacking group known as OilRig has continued to target government organizations in the Middle East as part of a cyber espionage campaign that leverages a new backdoor to exfiltrate data. "The campaign abuses legitimate but compromised email accounts to send stolen data to...

New APT34 Malware Targets The Middle East

We analyze an infection campaign targeting organizations in the Middle East for cyberespionage in December 2022 using a new backdoor malware. The campaign abuses legitimate but compromised email accounts to send stolen data to external mail accounts controlled by the attackers...

U.S. No Fly List Leaked on Hacker Forum

By Waqas The leak includes the full names and dates of birth of 1.8 million individuals on the No-Fly List with suspected or known ties to terrorist organizations. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: U.S. No Fly List Leaked on Hacker Forum...

CISA Releases Protecting Our Future: Partnering to Safeguard K–12 organizations from Cybersecurity Threats

Today, CISA released Protecting Our Future: Partnering to Safeguard K–12 organizations from Cybersecurity Threats. The report provides recommendations and resources to help K-12 schools and school districts address systemic cybersecurity risk. It also provides insight into the current threat...

4 Places to Supercharge Your SOC with Automation

It's no secret that the job of SOC teams continues to become increasingly difficult. Increased volume and sophistication of attacks are plaguing under-resourced teams with false positives and analyst burnout. However, like many other industries, cybersecurity is now beginning to lean on and benef...

Pro-Russian Hacktivist Group NoName057(16) Launches Cyber Attacks on Ukraine and NATO Organizations

Threat Level Actors Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary NoName05716 is a pro-Russian hacktivist group that has been conducting a campaign of DDoS attacks on Ukraine and NATO organizations since the early days of the war in Ukraine. The group has targeted...

FortiOS Flaw Exploited as Zero-Day in Attacks on Government and Organizations

A zero-day vulnerability in FortiOS SSL-VPN that Fortinet addressed last month was exploited by unknown actors in attacks targeting governments and other large organizations. "The complexity of the exploit suggests an advanced actor and that it is highly targeted at governmental or...

Wiz launches Australia cloud data center further demonstrating commitment to ANZ and multinational organizations

Wiz announces availability of new regional data center and adds support for Essential Eight controls...

3 Ransomware Questions Every Security Leader Should Be Able to Answer

Read about how organizations need microsegmentation to identify and remediate ransomware attacks, and the ransomware questions they need to answer...

Maximizing Roi With The Best LMS For Elearning

By Owais Sultan The world of eLearning has seen tremendous growth in recent years, with more and more organizations turning to… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Maximizing Roi With The Best LMS For Elearning...

Gartner: “Organizations Must Expand From Threat to Exposure Management in 2023”

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New Ransomware Variants Created Using Leaked Conti Source Code

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The leaked source code of the Conti ransomware has been used to create new strains of the ransomware. These new strains include Putin Team, ScareCrow, BlueSky, and Meow ransomware are being distributed...

Bluenoroff Bypasses MoTW to Target Japanese Organizations

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Bluenoroff is known for targeting financial institutions and government organizations and has been active since at least 2014. From September onwards Bluenoroff threat actors added a new feature, that...

Octosuite - Advanced Github OSINT Framework

A framework fro gathering osint on GitHub users, repositories and organizations Wiki Refer to the Wiki for installation instructions, in addition to all other documentation. Features Fetches an organization's profile information Fetches an oganization's events Returns an organization's repositori...

Use cases for Delegated Administrator for AWS Organizations

Learn about how AWS's recently released Delegated Administrator for AWS Organization can be used to solve common problems at your company and the issues you might run into with it...