Cybercriminals Exploit Free Software Lures to Deploy Hijack Loader and Vidar Stealer

Threat actors are luring unsuspecting users with free or pirated versions of commercial software to deliver a malware loader called Hijack Loader, which then deploys an information stealer known as Vidar Stealer. "Adversaries had managed to trick users into downloading password-protected archive...

TeamViewer 安全漏洞

TeamViewer is software from TeamViewer, Inc. for remote access as well as remote control and remote maintenance of computers and other end devices. A security vulnerability exists in TeamViewer Client Full & Host versions prior to 15.54, which stems from improper fingerprint authentication and...

Stealthy BLOODALCHEMY Malware Targeting ASEAN Government Networks

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that the malware known as BLOODALCHEMY used in attacks targeting government organizations in Southern and Southeastern Asia is in fact an updated version of Deed RAT, which is believed to be a successor to ShadowPad. "The origin of BLOODALCHEMY and Deed R...

Ongoing Malvertising Campaign leads to Ransomware

Executive Summary Rapid7 has observed an ongoing campaign to distribute trojanized installers for WinSCP and PuTTY via malicious ads on commonly used search engines, where clicking on the ad leads to typo squatted domains. In at least one observed case, the infection has led to the attempted...

CVE-2024-4017

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance on Windows, 64 bit filesystem modules allows DLL Side-Loading.This issue affects U-Series Appliance: from 3.4 before 4.0.3...

CVE-2024-4017

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance on Windows, 64 bit filesystem modules allows DLL Side-Loading.This issue affects U-Series Appliance: from 3.4 before 4.0.3...

CVE-2024-4017

BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance (Windows, 64-bit filesystem modules) is affected by CVE-2024-4017 due to improper privilege management allowing DLL side-loading. Affected versions are 3.4 through prior to 4.0.3; remediation is to upgrade to version 4.0.3 or later. Some sources confirm the vulnerab...

CVE-2024-4017 Privilege Escalation in U-Series Appliance

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance on Windows, 64 bit filesystem modules allows DLL Side-Loading.This issue affects U-Series Appliance: from 3.4 before 4.0.3...

CVE-2024-4017 Privilege Escalation in U-Series Appliance

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance on Windows, 64 bit filesystem modules allows DLL Side-Loading.This issue affects U-Series Appliance: from 3.4 before 4.0.3...

BlackTech Targets Tech, Research, and Gov Sectors New 'Deuterbear' Tool

Technology, research, and government sectors in the Asia-Pacific region have been targeted by a threat actor called BlackTech as part of a recent cyber attack wave. The intrusions pave the way for an updated version of modular backdoor dubbed Waterbear as well as its enhanced successor referred t...

PT-2024-28795 · Beyondtrust · Beyondtrust U-Series Appliance

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance versions 3.4 through 4.0.2 Description: The issue is related to Improper Privilege Management in the BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance on Windows, 64-bit, specifically affecting the filesystem modules. This allows...

CVE-2024-1605 DLL side-loading in BMC Control-M

BMC Control-M branches 9.0.20 and 9.0.21 upon user login load all Dynamic Link Libraries DLL from a directory that grants Write and Read permissions to all users. Leveraging it leads to loading of a potentially malicious libraries, which will execute with the application's privileges. Fix for...

CVE-2024-1605 DLL side-loading in BMC Control-M

BMC Control-M branches 9.0.20 and 9.0.21 upon user login load all Dynamic Link Libraries DLL from a directory that grants Write and Read permissions to all users. Leveraging it leads to loading of a potentially malicious libraries, which will execute with the application's privileges. Fix for...

New APT Group 'Lotus Bane' Behind Recent Attacks on Vietnam's Financial Entities

A financial entity in Vietnam was the target of a previously undocumented threat actor called Lotus Bane as part of a cyber attack that was first detected in March 2023. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB described the hacking outfit as an advanced persistent threat group that's believed to have be...

Open-Source Xeno RAT Trojan Emerges as a Potent Threat on GitHub

An "intricately designed" remote access trojan RAT called Xeno RAT has been made available on GitHub, making it easily accessible to other actors at no extra cost. Written in C and compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems, the open-source RAT comes with a "comprehensive set of...

Mustang Panda Targets Asia with Advanced PlugX Variant DOPLUGS

The China-linked threat actor known as Mustang Panda has targeted various Asian countries using a variant of the PlugX aka Korplug backdoor dubbed DOPLUGS. "The piece of customized PlugX malware is dissimilar to the general type of the PlugX malware that contains a completed backdoor command...

New Malicious PyPI Packages Caught Using Covert Side-Loading Tactics

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious packages on the Python Package Index PyPI repository that were found leveraging a technique called DLL side-loading to circumvent detection by security software and run malicious code. The packages, named NP6HelperHttptest and NP6HelperHttpe...

New Coyote Trojan Targets 61 Brazilian Banks with Nim-Powered Attack

Sixty-one banking institutions, all of them originating from Brazil, are the target of a new banking trojan called Coyote. "This malware utilizes the Squirrel installer for distribution, leveraging Node.js and a relatively new multi-platform programming language called Nim as a loader to complete...

Nitrogen shelling malware from hacked sites

Nitrogen is the name given to a campaign and associated malware that have been distributed via malicious search ads. Its signature move is using Python and DLL side-loading to connect to the attackers command and control server. In this blog post, we look at a recent Nitrogen campaign and...

Mustang Panda Hackers Targets Philippines Government Amid South China Sea Tensions

The China-linked Mustang Panda actor has been linked to a cyber attack targeting a Philippines government entity amid rising tensions between the two countries over the disputed South China Sea. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 attributed the adversarial collective to three campaigns in August 2023,...