SideWinder APT Targets Maritime, Nuclear, and IT Sectors Across Asia, Middle East, and Africa

Maritime and logistics companies in South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa have become the target of an advanced persistent threat APT group dubbed SideWinder. The attacks, observed by Kaspersky in 2024, spread across Bangladesh, Cambodia, Djibouti, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates,...

SideWinder targets the maritime and nuclear sectors with an updated toolset

Last year, we published an article about SideWinder, a highly prolific APT group whose primary targets have been military and government entities in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, and Nepal. In it, we described activities that had mostly happened in the first half of the year. We tried to draw...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-3275

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9.0.0. A malicious actor is able to exploit this vulnerability only if they are able...

Silver Fox APT Uses Winos 4.0 Malware in Cyber Attacks Against Taiwanese Organizations

A new campaign is targeting companies in Taiwan with malware known as Winos 4.0 as part of phishing emails masquerading as the country's National Taxation Bureau. The campaign, detected last month by Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, marks a departure from previous attack chains that have leveraged...

Angry Likho APT Resurfaces with Lumma Stealer Attacks Against Russia

Angry Likho APT resurfaces, targeting Russian and Belarusian organizations with Lumma Stealer malware via phishing attacks, stealing credentials, banking data, and more...

Silver Fox APT Hides ValleyRAT in Trojanized Medical Imaging Software

Chinese Silver Fox APT exploits trojanized medical imaging software to spread ValleyRAT malware, posing a serious threat to…...

2,500+ Truesight.sys Driver Variants Exploited to Bypass EDR and Deploy HiddenGh0st RAT

A large-scale malware campaign has been found leveraging a vulnerable Windows driver associated with Adlice's product suite to sidestep detection efforts and deliver the Gh0st RAT malware. "To further evade detection, the attackers deliberately generated multiple variants with different hashes of...

FatalRAT Phishing Attacks Target APAC Industries Using Chinese Cloud Services

Various industrial organizations in the Asia-Pacific APAC region have been targeted as part of phishing attacks designed to deliver a known malware called FatalRAT. "The threat was orchestrated by attackers using legitimate Chinese cloud content delivery network CDN myqcloud and the Youdao Cloud...

Angry Likho: Old beasts in a new forest

Angry Likho referred to as Sticky Werewolf by some vendors is an APT group we've been monitoring since 2023. It bears a strong resemblance to Awaken Likho, which we've analyzed before, so we classified it within the Likho malicious activity cluster. However, Angry Likho's attacks tend to be...

Earth Preta Mixes Legitimate and Malicious Components to Sidestep Detection

Our Threat Hunting team discusses Earth Preta’s latest technique, in which the APT group leverages MAVInject and Setup Factory to deploy payloads, bypass ESET antivirus, and maintain control over compromised systems...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2025 Edition

Microsoft today issued security updates to fix at least 56 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including two zero-day flaws that are being actively exploited. All supported Windows operating systems will receive an update this month for a buffer overflow...

Fortinet FortiSandbox 跨站脚本漏洞

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from US-based Fortinet. The appliance offers dual sandboxing technology, dynamic threat intelligence system, real-time control panel and reporting. The Fortinet FortiSandbox suffers from a cross-site scripting...

North Korean APT Kimsuky Uses forceCopy Malware to Steal Browser-Stored Credentials

The North Korea-linked nation-state hacking group known as Kimsuky has been observed conducting spear-phishing attacks to deliver an information stealer malware named forceCopy, according to new findings from the AhnLab Security Intelligence Center ASEC. The attacks commence with phishing emails...

Malicious code in puppetlabs-apt (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware d3d7b24d31b73020af01d32ac4c79293dde10b8c8994012a9e685ae70f788d3a Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

MAL-2025-1171 Malicious code in puppetlabs-apt (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware d3d7b24d31b73020af01d32ac4c79293dde10b8c8994012a9e685ae70f788d3a Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Google: Over 57 Nation-State Threat Groups Using AI for Cyber Operations

Over 57 distinct threat actors with ties to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been observed using artificial intelligence AI technology powered by Google to further enable their malicious cyber and information operations. "Threat actors are experimenting with Gemini to enable their...

PT-2025-24329

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Windows versions prior to June 2025 Description An issue exists in the WebDAV module where external control of file names or paths in Internet Shortcut Files allows an unauthorized remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. The flaw...

Chinese PlushDaemon APT Targets S. Korean IPany VPN with Backdoor

Cybersecurity firm ESET uncovers PlushDaemon, a previously unknown APT group targeting South Korea, deploying a SlowStepper backdoor. This…...

Fortinet FortiSandbox OS Command Injection Vulnerability (CNVD-2025-03524)

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet. The appliance offers dual sandboxing technology, dynamic threat intelligence system, real-time control panel and reporting. Fortinet FortiSandbox suffers from an operating system command injection...

PlushDaemon APT Targets South Korean VPN Provider in Supply Chain Attack

A previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat APT group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network VPN provider in 2023, according to new findings from ESET. "The attackers replaced the legitimate installer with...