Aurora campaign: Attacking Azerbaijan using multiple RATs

This post was authored by Hossein Jazi As tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia continue, we are still seeing a number of cyber attacks taking advantage of this situation. On March 5th 2021, we reported an actor that used steganography to drop a new .Net Remote Administration Trojan. Since that...

Chinese APT group spying on Vietnam military with FoundCore RAT

By Deeba Ahmed According to Kaspersky researchers, Cycldek, a Chinese APT group is targeting Vietnam's military establishment with FoundCore RAT. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese APT group spying on Vietnam military with FoundCore RAT...

Call of Duty Cheats Expose Gamers to Malware

Activision, the company behind Call of Duty: Warzone, has issued a warning that a threat actor is taking out ads for cheat tools, which instead turn out to be remote-access trojan RAT malware . The scam was first floated in March when a cyberattacker posted in hacking forums that they had a free,...

Hackers are implanting multiple backdoors at industrial targets in Japan

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of a sophisticated campaign that deploys malicious backdoors for the purpose of exfiltrating information from a number of industry sectors located in Japan. Dubbed "A41APT" by Kaspersky researchers, the findings delve into a new slew of attac...

Rafel-Rat - Android Rat Written In Java With WebPanel For Controlling Victims

Rafel is RemoteAccess Tool Used to Control Victims Using WebPanel With More Advance Features. Main Features Admin Permission Add App To White List Looks Like Browser Runs In Background Even App is ClosedMay not work on some Devices Accessibility Feature Support Android v5 - v10 No Port Forwarding...

NanoCore RAT Scurries Past Email Defenses with .ZIPX Tactic

A spate of malicious emails with attachments delivering the NanoCore remote access trojan RAT is evading anti-malware and email scanners by abusing the .ZIPX file format. That’s according to researchers at Trustwave, who found that the campaign is effectively hiding a malicious executable by givi...

New steganography attack targets Azerbaijan

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi Threat actors often vary their techniques to thwart security defenses and increase the efficiency of their attacks. One of the tricks they use is known as steganography and consists of hiding content within images. We recently observed a malicious Word...

PT-2021-6082 · Google +7 · Go +7

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Go versions prior to 1.15.13 Go versions 1.16.x prior to 1.16.5 Description: The issue is related to the math/big.Rat component and the UnmarshalText method in the Go programming language, which can lead to uncontrolled memory allocation. Thi...

Researchers Uncover Android Spying Campaign Targeting Pakistan Officials

Two new Android surveillanceware families have been found to target military, nuclear, and election entities in Pakistan and Kashmir as part of a pro-India, state-sponsored hacking campaign. Dubbed Hornbill and Sunbird, the malware impersonates legitimate or seemingly innocuous services to cover...

Military, Nuclear Entities Under Target By Novel Android Malware

Researchers have uncovered two novel Android surveillanceware families being used by an advanced persistent threat APT group to target military, nuclear and election entities in Pakistan and Kashmir. The two malware families, which researchers call “Hornbill” and “SunBird,” have sophisticated...

LodaRAT Windows Malware Now Also Targets Android Devices

A previously known Windows remote access Trojan RAT with credential-stealing capabilities has now expanded its scope to set its sights on users of Android devices to further the attacker's espionage motives. "The developers of LodaRAT have added Android as a targeted platform," Cisco Talos...

Hezbollah-Linked Lebanese Cedar APT Infiltrates Hundreds of Servers

Advanced persistent threat APT group Lebanese Cedar has compromised at least 250 public-facing servers since early 2020, researchers said, with its latest malware. The group has added new features to its custom “Caterpillar” webshell and the “Explosive RAT” remote access trojan RAT, both of which...

A New Software Supply‑Chain Attack Targeted Millions With Spyware

Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a new supply chain attack targeting online gamers by compromising the update mechanism of NoxPlayer, a free Android emulator for PCs and Macs. Dubbed "Operation NightScout" by Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, the highly-targeted surveillance campaign...

ALERT: North Korean hackers targeting South Korea with RokRat Trojan

A North Korean hacking group has been found deploying the RokRat Trojan in a new spear-phishing campaign targeting the South Korean government. Attributing the attack to APT37 aka Starcruft, Ricochet Chollima, or Reaper, Malwarebytes said it identified a malicious document last December that, whe...

Fake Trump’s scandle video campaign spreading QNode RAT

By Deeba Ahmed Hackers are benefitting from the unrest after the US Presidential elections and spreading QNode malware. Here's what's going on behind the scene. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake Trumps scandle video campaign spreading QNode RAT...

Hackers Using Fake Trump's Scandal Video to Spread QNode Malware

Cybesecurity researchers today revealed a new malspam campaign that distributes a remote access Trojan RAT by purporting to contain a sex scandal video of U.S. President Donald Trump. The emails, which carry with the subject line "GOOD LOAN OFFER!!," come attached with a Java archive JAR file...

Hackers Using Fake Trump's Scandal Video to Spread QNode Malware

Cybesecurity researchers today revealed a new malspam campaign that distributes a remote access Trojan RAT by purporting to contain a sex scandal video of U.S. President Donald Trump. The emails, which carry with the subject line "GOOD LOAN OFFER!!," come attached with a Java archive JAR file...

Backdoor.Win32.Zombam.k Stack Buffer Overflow

Discovery / credits: malvuln - Malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/79d9908b6769e64f922e74a090f5ceeb.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Zombam.k Vulnerability: Remote String Dereference Stack Buffer Overflow Description:...

Ransomware Attackers Using SystemBC Malware With RAT and Tor Proxy

Cybercriminals are increasingly outsourcing the task of deploying ransomware to affiliates using commodity malware and attack tools, according to new research. In a new analysis published by Sophos today and shared with The Hacker News, recent deployments of Ryuk and Egregor ransomware have...

Payment Card Skimmer Group Using Raccoon Info-Stealer to Siphon Off Data

A cybercrime group known for targeting e-commerce websites unleashed a "multi-stage malicious campaign" earlier this year designed with an intent to distribute information stealers and JavaScript-based payment skimmers. In a new report published today and shared with The Hacker News,...