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How we can separate botnets from the malware operations that rely on them
As I covered in last weeks newsletter, law enforcement agencies from around the globe have been touting recent botnet disruptions affecting the likes of some of the largest threat actors and malware families. Operation Endgame, which Europol touted as the "largest ever operation against botnets,"...
New Cross-Platform Malware 'Noodle RAT' Targets Windows and Linux Systems
A previously undocumented cross-platform malware codenamed Noodle RAT has been put to use by Chinese-speaking threat actors either for espionage or cybercrime for years. While this backdoor was previously categorized as a variant of Gh0st RAT and Rekoobe, Trend Micro security researcher Hara...
China-Backed Hackers Exploit Fortinet Flaw, Infecting 20,000 Systems Globally
State-sponsored threat actors backed by China gained access to 20,000 Fortinet FortiGate systems worldwide by exploiting a known critical security flaw between 2022 and 2023, indicating that the operation had a broader impact than previously known. "The state actor behind this campaign was alread...
Chinese Actor SecShow Conducts Massive DNS Probing on Global Scale
Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a Chinese actor codenamed SecShow that has been observed conducting Domain Name System DNS on a global scale since at least June 2023. The adversary, according to Infoblox security researchers Dr. Renée Burton and Dave Mitchell, operates from the...
CVE-2024-28023
The CVE-2024-28023 entry concerns a vulnerability in the message queueing mechanism used by Hitachi Energy FOXMAN-UN / UNEM (Hitachi FOXMAN-UN server and related APIGateway components). Connected documents corroborate a risk that exploitation could lead to exposure of resources or functionality t...
Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 3 to 9 June 2024
For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs has recently made significant advancements in identifying cybersecurity threats. Over the past week alone, HiveForce Labs has detected six executed attacks, reported nine vulnerabilities, and identified two active...
Sticky Werewolf Expands Cyber Attack Targets in Russia and Belarus
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a threat actor known as Sticky Werewolf that has been linked to cyber attacks targeting entities in Russia and Belarus. The phishing attacks were aimed at a pharmaceutical company, a Russian research institute dealing with microbiology and vacci...
Pause off my cluster: DERO cryptojacking takes a new shape
Learn how the threat actors behind the 2023 DERO cryptojacking campaign have adapted their techniques to evade detection, and the best practices for mitigation...
Third-Party Cyber Attacks: The Threat No One Sees Coming – Here's How to Stop Them
Learn about critical threats that can impact your organization and the bad actors behind them from Cybersixgill's threat experts. Each story shines a light on underground activities, the threat actors involved, and why you should care, along with what you can do to mitigate risk. In an increasing...
Summary of Vulnerabilities, Actors & Attacks: May 2024
Vulnerabilities Exploited| Adversaries in Action| Attacks Executed| Targeted Countries| Targeted Industries| MITRE ATT&CK TTPs ---|---|---|---|---|--- 24| 11| 38| 287| 23| 233 Summary In May, the cybersecurity arena garnered significant attention following the identification of eleven zero-day...
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalog May 2024
Summary The Known Exploited Vulnerability KEV catalog, maintained by CISA, is the authoritative source of vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild. It is recommended that all organizations review and monitor the KEV catalog, prioritize remediation of listed vulnerabilities, and reduce...
Telerik Report Server Flaw Could Let Attackers Create Rogue Admin Accounts
Progress Software has rolled out updates to address a critical security flaw impacting the Telerik Report Server that could be potentially exploited by a remote attacker to bypass authentication and create rogue administrator users. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-4358, carries a CVSS score of 9.8...
Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 27 May to 02 June 2024
For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries in the realm of cybersecurity threats. In the past week alone, a total of four attacks were executed, three vulnerabilities were uncovered, and two active adversaries were...
CVE-2024-32983
Misskey is an open source, decentralized microblogging platform. Misskey doesn't perform proper normalization on the JSON structures of incoming signed ActivityPub activity objects before processing them, allowing threat actors to spoof the contents of signed activities and impersonate the author...
Authorities Ramp Up Efforts to Capture the Mastermind Behind Emotet
Law enforcement authorities behind Operation Endgame are seeking information related to an individual who goes by the name Odd and is allegedly the mastermind behind the Emotet malware. Odd is also said to go by the nicknames Aron, C700, Cbd748, Ivanov Odd, Mors, Morse, and Veron over the past fe...
SASE Threat Report: 8 Key Findings for Enterprise Security
Threat actors are evolving, yet Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI remains confined to each isolated point solution. Organizations require a holistic analysis across external data, inbound and outbound threats and network activity. This will enable evaluating the true state of cybersecurity in the...
Beyond Threat Detection – A Race to Digital Security
Digital content is a double-edged sword, providing vast benefits while simultaneously posing significant threats to organizations across the globe. The sharing of digital content has increased significantly in recent years, mainly via email, digital documents, and chat. In turn, this has created ...
IP Address Spoofing
Symfony is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing The vulnerability is due to the potential manipulation of client IP addresses returned by the Request::getClientIp method for sensitive decisions. It allows malicious actors to manipulate or spoof their IP addresses...
Exposed and vulnerable: Recent attacks highlight critical need to protect internet-exposed OT devices
Since late 2023, Microsoft has observed an increase in reports of attacks focusing on internet-exposed, poorly secured operational technology OT devices. Internet-exposed OT equipment in water and wastewater systems WWS in the US were targeted in multiple attacks over the past months by different...
