LLM Prompt Injection Worm

Researchers have demonstrated a worm that spreads through prompt injection. Details: In one instance, the researchers, acting as attackers, wrote an email including the adversarial text prompt, which "poisons" the database of an email assistant using retrieval-augmented generation RAG, a way for...

Over 100 Malicious AI/ML Models Found on Hugging Face Platform

As many as 100 malicious artificial intelligence AI/machine learning ML models have been discovered in the Hugging Face platform. These include instances where loading a pickle file leads to code execution, software supply chain security firm JFrog said. "The model's payload grants the attacker a...

Here Come the AI Worms

Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way...

Google’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Growing

Plus: North Korean supply chain attacks, a Russian USB worm spreads internationally, and more...

LitterDrifter USB Worm

A new worm that spreads via USB sticks is infecting computers in Ukraine and beyond. The group­--known by many names, including Gamaredon, Primitive Bear, ACTINIUM, Armageddon, and Shuckworm--has been active since at least 2014 and has been attributed to Russia’s Federal Security Service by the...

Gamaredon Deploys LitterDrifter USB Worm in Cyber Espionage Operations

Summary: Russian cyber espionage group Gamaredon aka Primitive Bear has been observed utilizing a USB-propagating worm known as LitterDrifter in attacks targeting Ukrainian entities. This group has recently adopted LitterDrifter, a worm written in VBS, designed to spread through removable USB...

Russian Cyber Espionage Group Deploys LitterDrifter USB Worm in Targeted Attacks

Russian cyber espionage actors affiliated with the Federal Security Service FSB have been observed using a USB propagating worm called LitterDrifter in attacks targeting Ukrainian entities. Check Point, which detailed Gamaredon's aka Aqua Blizzard, Iron Tilden, Primitive Bear, Shuckworm, and...

Spaf on the Morris Worm

Gene Spafford wrote an essay reflecting on the Morris Worm of 1988--thirty-five years ago. His lessons from then are still applicable today...

New P2PInfect Worm Targets Redis Servers with Undocumented Breach Methods

The P2PInfect peer-to-peer P2 worm has been observed employing previously undocumented initial access methods to breach susceptible Redis servers and rope them into a botnet. "The malware compromises exposed instances of the Redis data store by exploiting the replication feature," Cado Security...

‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ Players Hit With Worm Malware

Plus: Russia tightens social media censorship, new cyberattack reporting rules for US companies, and Google Street View returns to Germany...

A New Cross-Platform ‘P2PInfect’ Worm Threatening Cloud Environments

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary P2PInfect, a new cross-platform worm written in Rust, targets vulnerable Redis instances in cloud environments via the CVE-2022-0543 vulnerability, potentially posing a significant threat to over 307,000...

P2PInfect: Self-Replicating Worm Hits Redis Instances

By Waqas Known as 'P2PInfect,' the worm exploits a critical vulnerability to infiltrate Redis instances and assimilates them into a larger P2P network, enabling it to spread rapidly. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: P2PInfect: Self-Replicating Worm Hits Redis Instances...

New P2PInfect Worm Targeting Redis Servers on Linux and Windows Systems

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new cloud targeting, peer-to-peer P2P worm called P2PInfect that targets vulnerable Redis instances for follow-on exploitation. "P2PInfect exploits Redis servers running on both Linux and Windows Operating Systems making it more scalable and potent than...

Threat Roundup for June 30 to July 7

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between June 30 and July 7. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 15 to 21 May 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made significant discoveries in the field of cybersecurity threats. In the past week, they uncovered a total of eight attacks that were executed, taking advantage of five different vulnerabilities across...

Microsoft Confirms PaperCut Servers Used to Deliver LockBit and Cl0p Ransomware

Microsoft has confirmed that the active exploitation of PaperCut servers is linked to attacks that are designed to deliver Cl0p and LockBit ransomware families. The tech giant's threat intelligence team is attributing a subset of the intrusions to a financially motivated actor it tracks under the...

Uncommon infection methods—part 2

Introduction Although ransomware is still a hot topic on which we will keep on publishing, we also investigate and publish about other threats. Recently we explored the topic of infection methods, including malvertising and malicious downloads. In this blog post, we provide excerpts from the rece...

Emotet Rises Again: Evades Macro Security via OneNote Attachments

The notorious Emotet malware, in its return after a short hiatus, is now being distributed via Microsoft OneNote email attachments in an attempt to bypass macro-based security restrictions and compromise systems. Emotet, linked to a threat actor tracked as Gold Crestwood, Mummy Spider, or TA542,...

Qakbot Evolves to OneNote Malware Distribution

Qakbot Evolves to OneNote Malware Distribution By Pham Duy Phuc, John Fokker J.E. and Alejandro Houspanossian · March 07, 2023 This blog was also written by Raghav Kapoor and Mathanraj Thangaraju Qakbot aka QBot, QuakBot, and Pinkslipbot is a sophisticated piece of malware that has been active...

K1989: Apache/mod_ssl Worm vulnerability CA-2002-27

Security Advisory Description Note: Versions that are not listed in this article have not been evaluated for vulnerability to this security advisory. For information about F5 security policy regarding evaluating older and unsupported versions of F5 products, refer to K4602: Overview of the F5...