Russian Hacktivist Group Targets Political Websites with DDOS Attacks

A Russian hacktivist group calling itself “The People’s Cyberarmy” called on its members to target the American Democratic party website at with DDOS Distributed Denial of Service attacks this morning, November 8th, 2022, which is Election Day in the United States. A post in their Telegram channe...

Trellix Global Defenders: Defending against Cyber Espionage Campaigns – Operation Graphite

Trellix Global Defenders: Defending against Cyber Espionage Campaigns – Operation Graphite By Ben Marandel, Arnab Roy · June 20, 2022 Cyber Espionage campaigns by nature are targeted attacks that can go undetected for prolonged periods of time. Cyber Espionage campaigns often involve adversaries...

Trellix Global Defenders: Defending against Cyber Espionage Campaigns – Operation Graphite

Trellix Global Defenders: Defending against Cyber Espionage Campaigns – Operation Graphite By Ben Marandel, Arnab Roy · June 20, 2022 Cyber Espionage campaigns by nature are targeted attacks that can go undetected for prolonged periods of time. Cyber Espionage campaigns often involve adversaries...

Flash Exploit Found in Seven Exploit Kits

A nasty Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability that was remediated in an emergency update in October 2015 was thereafter co-opted by seven exploit kits, according to an analysis published today by researchers at Recorded Future. The Adobe vulnerability, CVE-2015-7645, was also used by the Russian APT...

Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Using Unpatched Windows Bug Disclosed by Google

Google's Threat Analysis Group publically disclosed on Monday a critical zero-day vulnerability in most versions of Windows just 10 days after privately disclosed both zero days to Microsoft and Adobe. While Adobe rushed an emergency patch for its Flash Player software on October 26, Microsoft ha...

Emergency Adobe Flash Player Security Update

The latest version of Adobe Flash Player, which was made available on Tuesday, will have a short shelf life. Adobe will release an emergency Flash update next week after public attacks were carried out against a zero day vulnerability in the latest version of the software, 19.0.0.207, for Windows...

Fake EFF Site Used in Spear Phishing Campaign

Attackers, possibly associated with the Russian government, registered a phony Electronic Frontier Foundation domain earlier this month in an attempt to dupe users into thinking correspondence from the site was coming from the well-known privacy watchdog. The scheme, largely carried out via spear...

Office, Java Patches Erase Latest APT 28 Zero Days

An APT group thought to be tied to Russia is flying against conventional wisdom, having as recently as the last three weeks dropped its sixth zero-day in the past four months. Given the underground value of unpatched and unreported vulnerabilities, this is highly unusual behavior, even for a...