CISA and Partners Release Cybersecurity Advisory Guidance detailing PRC state-sponsored actors evading detection by “Living off the Land”

Today, CISA joined the National Security Agency NSA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and international partners in releasing a joint cybersecurity advisory highlighting recently discovered activities conducted by a People’s Republic of China PRC state-sponsored cyber threat actor. This...

WINTAPIX Kernel Driver Targeting Middle Eastern Nations

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The WINTAPIX driver, protected by VMProtect, targets Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, possibly linked to Iranian threat actors exploiting Exchange servers for malware deployment. To receive real-ti...

CapCut Users Beware: Phishing Sites Distributing Malware

By Deeba Ahmed If you use TikTok, you must be aware of CapCut. However, did you know that this app is being abused by threat actors to drop malware and carry out phishing scams through not one, but a series of malicious sites? This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CapCut Users...

Indonesian Cybercriminals Exploit AWS for Profitable Crypto Mining Operations

A financially motivated threat actor of Indonesian origin has been observed leveraging Amazon Web Services AWS Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 instances to carry out illicit crypto mining operations. Cloud security company's Permiso P0 Labs, which first detected the group in November 2021, has assigned...

PyPI Repository Under Attack: User Sign-Ups and Package Uploads Temporarily Halted

The maintainers of Python Package Index PyPI, the official third-party software repository for the Python programming language, have temporarily disabled the ability for users to sign up and upload new packages until further notice. "The volume of malicious users and malicious projects being...

Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix XDR - Part 2

Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix Helix Connect - Part 2 By Maulik Maheta · May 21, 2023 This blog was also written by Chintan Shah Executive summary In the part 1 of this series we discussed in depth about the known Lateral movement attacks like abusing weak service...

Meet 'Jack' from Romania! Mastermind Behind Golden Chickens Malware

The identity of the second threat actor behind the Golden Chickens malware has been uncovered courtesy of a "fatal" operational security blunder, cybersecurity firm eSentire said. The individual in question, who lives in Bucharest, Romania, has been given the codename Jack. He is one of the two...

Developer Alert: NPM Packages for Node.js Hiding Dangerous TurkoRat Malware

Two malicious packages discovered in the npm package repository have been found to conceal an open source information stealer malware called TurkoRat. The packages – named nodejs-encrypt-agent and nodejs-cookie-proxy-agent – were collectively downloaded approximately 1,200 times and were availabl...

WebKit Under Attack: Apple Issues Emergency Patches for 3 New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Apple on Thursday rolled out security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and the Safari web browser to address dozens of flaws, including three new zero-days that it said are being actively exploited in the wild. The three security shortcomings are listed below - CVE-2023-32409 - A...

CVE-2023-27350: Ongoing Exploitation of PaperCut Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2023-27350 is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in PaperCut MF/NG print management software that allows attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM on vulnerable targets. A patch is available for this vulnerability and should be applied on an...

China-Taiwan Tensions Spark Surge in Cyberattacks on Taiwan

China-Taiwan Tensions Spark Surge in Cyberattacks on Taiwan By Daksh Kapur, Leandro Velasco · May 17, 2023 Figure 1 image from freepik.com “In the past few years, we noticed that geopolitical conflicts are one of the main drivers for cyber-attacks on a variety of industries and institutions...

Hackers Using Golang Variant of Cobalt Strike to Target Apple macOS Systems

A Golang implementation of Cobalt Strike called Geacon is likely to garner the attention of threat actors looking to target Apple macOS systems. That's according to findings from SentinelOne, which observed an increase in the number of Geacon payloads appearing on VirusTotal in recent months...

Industrial Cellular Routers at Risk: 11 New Vulnerabilities Expose OT Networks

Several security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in cloud management platforms associated with three industrial cellular router vendors that could expose operational technology OT networks to external attacks. The findings were presented by Israeli industrial cybersecurity firm OTORIO at the...

CVE-2023-1934

The PnPSCADA system, a product of SDG Technologies CC, is afflicted by a critical unauthenticated error-based PostgreSQL Injection vulnerability. Present within the hitlogcsv.jsp endpoint, this security flaw permits unauthenticated attackers to engage with the underlying database seamlessly and...

Babuk Source Code Sparks 9 Different Ransomware Strains Targeting VMware ESXi Systems

Multiple threat actors have capitalized on the leak of Babuk aka Babak or Babyk ransomware code in September 2021 to build as many as nine different ransomware families capable of targeting VMware ESXi systems. "These variants emerged through H2 2022 and H1 2023, which shows an increasing trend o...

Experts Detail New Zero-Click Windows Vulnerability for NTLM Credential Theft

Cybersecurity researchers have shared details about a now-patched security flaw in Windows MSHTML platform that could be abused to bypass integrity protections on targeted machines. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-29324 CVSS score: 6.5, has been described as a security feature bypass. It w...

Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday Fixes 38 Flaws, Including 2 Exploited Zero-Day Bugs

Microsoft has rolled out Patch Tuesday updates for May 2023 to address 38 security flaws, including two zero-day bugs that it said are being actively exploited in the wild. Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative ZDI said the volume is the lowest since August 2021, although it pointed out that "this...

CISA and Partners Disclose Snake Malware Threat From Russian Cyber Actors

Today, CISA and partners released a joint advisory for a sophisticated cyber espionage tool used by Russian cyber actors. Hunting Russian Intelligence “Snake” Malware provides technical descriptions of the malware’s host architecture and network communications, and mitigations to help detect and...

Microsoft Warns of State-Sponsored Attacks Exploiting Critical PaperCut Vulnerability

Iranian nation-state groups have now joined financially motivated actors in actively exploiting a critical flaw in PaperCut print management software, Microsoft disclosed over the weekend. The tech giant's threat intelligence team said it observed both Mango Sandstorm Mercury and Mint Sandstorm...

New LOBSHOT Malware Being Distributed Through Google Ads

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary LOBSHOT is a new malware that is being distributed through Google Ads. It is a remote access trojan that can allow threat actors to take control of an infected Windows devices hidden desktop, execute...