Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Werewolf Hacking Group

In another rare squid/cybersecurity intersection, APT37 is also known as "Squid Werewolf." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...

North Korean Hackers Using New VeilShell Backdoor in Stealthy Cyber Attacks

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed delivering a previously undocumented backdoor and remote access trojan RAT called VeilShell as part of a campaign targeting Cambodia and likely other Southeast Asian countries. The activity, dubbed SHROUDEDSLEEP by Securonix, is believed t...

North Korean Hackers Weaponize Fake Research to Deliver RokRAT Backdoor

Media organizations and high-profile experts in North Korean affairs have been at the receiving end of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as ScarCruft in December 2023. "ScarCruft has been experimenting with new infection chains, including the use of a technical threat research...

Lazarus Group Targeting Defense Experts with Fake Interviews via Trojanized VNC Apps

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group aka Hidden Cobra or TEMP.Hermit has been observed using trojanized versions of Virtual Network Computing VNC apps as lures to target the defense industry and nuclear engineers as part of a long-running campaign known as Operation Dream Job. "The threat actor...

STARK#MULE Targets Koreans with U.S. Military-themed Document Lures

An ongoing cyber attack campaign has set its sights on Korean-speaking individuals by employing U.S. Military-themed document lures to trick them into running malware on compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm Securonix is tracking the activity under the name STARKMULE. The scale of the attacks i...

North Korea's ScarCruft Deploys RokRAT Malware via LNK File Infection Chains

The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft started experimenting with oversized LNK files as a delivery route for RokRAT malware as early as July 2022, the same month Microsoft began blocking macros across Office documents by default. "RokRAT has not changed significantly over the years, bu...

Tonto Team Uses Anti-Malware File to Launch Attacks on South Korean Institutions

South Korean education, construction, diplomatic, and political institutions are at the receiving end of new attacks perpetrated by a China-aligned threat actor known as the Tonto Team. "Recent cases have revealed that the group is using a file related to anti-malware products to ultimately execu...

Experts Warn of RambleOn Android Malware Targeting South Korean Journalists

Suspected North Korean nation-state actors targeted a journalist in South Korea with a malware-laced Android app as part of a social engineering campaign. The findings come from South Korea-based non-profit Interlab, which coined the new malware RambleOn. The malicious functionalities include the...

North Korea's APT37 Targeting Southern Counterpart with New M2RAT Malware

The North Korea-linked threat actor tracked as APT37 has been linked to a piece of new malware dubbed M2RAT in attacks targeting its southern counterpart, suggesting continued evolution of the group's features and tactics. APT37, also tracked under the monikers Reaper, RedEyes, Ricochet Chollima,...

Google Warns of Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited by ScarCruft Hackers

An Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability was actively exploited by a North Korean threat actor to target South Korean users by capitalizing on the recent Itaewon Halloween crowd crush to trick users into downloading malware. The discovery, reported by Google Threat Analysis Group researchers...

North Korean APT37 Unleashes Dolphin Backdoor on South Korea

By Habiba Rashid The backdoor is equipped with a wide range of spying capabilities, including exfiltrating files, keylogging, and stealing browser data, etc. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: North Korean APT37 Unleashes Dolphin Backdoor on South Korea...

PT-2022-5391

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Windows versions prior to 10.0.10240.19567 Microsoft Windows 10 1507 versions prior to 10.0.10240.19567 Microsoft Windows 10 1607 versions prior to 10.0.14393.5501 Microsoft Windows 10 1809 versions prior to 10.0.17763.3650 Microsoft...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 25 – 31st July

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 462 7 4 52 22 64 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The Last week of July 2022 witnessed the discovery of 462 vulnerabilities out of which 7...

APT37 employs Konni malware to target high-level organizations

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Konni remote access trojan, which is widely used malware by the APT37, is used in the attack campaign to take advantage of high-value targets from countries like the Czech Republic, Poland, and many others...

Nation-state Hackers Target Journalists with Goldbackdoor Malware

Sophisticated hackers believed to be tied to the North Korean government are actively targeting journalists with novel malware dubbed Goldbackdoor. Attacks have consisted of multistage infection campaign with the ultimate goal of stealing sensitive information from targets. The campaign is believ...

North Korean Hackers Target Journalists with GOLDBACKDOOR Malware

A state-backed threat actor with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea DRPK has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting journalists covering the country with the ultimate goal of deploying a backdoor on infected Windows systems. The intrusions, said to be the work of...

New Chinotto Spyware Targets North Korean Defectors, Human Rights Activists

North Korean defectors, journalists who cover North Korea-related news, and entities in South Korea are being zeroed in on by a nation-state-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT as part of a new wave of highly-targeted surveillance attacks. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky attributed the...

New variant of Konni malware used in campaign targetting Russia

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi In late July 2021, we identified an ongoing spear phishing campaign pushing Konni Rat to target Russia. Konni was first observed in the wild in 2014 and has been potentially linked to the North Korean APT group named APT37. We discovered two documents...

NK Hackers Deploy Browser Exploits on South Korean Sites to Spread Malware

A North Korean threat actor has been discovered taking advantage of two exploits in Internet Explorer to infect victims with a custom implant as part of a strategic web compromise SWC targeting a South Korean online newspaper. Cybersecurity firm Volexity attributed the watering hole attacks to a...

A week in security (January 4 – January 10)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we released survey results about VPN usage and found that 36 percent of our respondents use it. We also talked about Adobe Flash Player reaching its end of life—meaning, Adobe wont be supporting the updating and patching of its Flash Player software; covered the...