Russian State-Sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Compromises U.S. Government Targets

Summary This joint cybersecurity advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques This joint cybersecurity advisory—written by the Federal Bureau of...

Advanced Persistent Threat Actors Targeting U.S. Think Tanks

Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FB...

MacOS Users Targeted By OceanLotus Backdoor

A macOS backdoor variant has been uncovered that relies of multi-stage payloads and various updated anti-detection techniques. Researchers linked it to the OceanLotus advanced persistent threat APT group. The Vietnam-backed OceanLotus also known as APT 32 has been around since at least 2013, and...

Digitally Signed Bandook Malware Once Again Targets Multiple Sectors

A cyberespionage group with suspected ties to the Kazakh and Lebanese governments has unleashed a new wave of attacks against a multitude of industries with a retooled version of a 13-year-old backdoor Trojan. Check Point Research called out hackers affiliated with a group named Dark Caracal in a...

Critical MobileIron RCE Flaw Under Active Attack

Advanced persistent threat APT groups are actively exploiting a vulnerability in mobile device management security solutions from MobileIron, a new advisory warns. The issue in question CVE-2020-15505 is a remote code-execution flaw. It ranks 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS severity scale, making it...

TA416 APT Rebounds With New PlugX Malware Variant

The TA416 advanced persistent threat APT actor is back with a vengeance: After a month of inactivity, the group was spotted launching spear-phishing attacks with a never-before-seen Golang variant of its PlugX malware loader. TA416, which is also known as “Mustang Panda” and “RedDelta,” was spott...

Symantec Reports on Cicada APT Attacks against Japan

Symantec is reporting on an APT group linked to China, named Cicada. They have been attacking organizations in Japan and elsewhere. Cicada has historically been known to target Japan-linked organizations, and has also targeted MSPs in the past. The group is using living-off-the-land tools as well...

Advanced Threat predictions for 2021

Trying to make predictions about the future is a tricky business. However, while we dont have a crystal ball that can reveal the future, we can try to make educated guesses using the trends that we have observed over the last 12 months to identify areas that attackers are likely to seek to exploi...

Chinese APT Hackers Target Southeast Asian Government Institutions

Cybersecurity researchers today unveiled a complex and targeted espionage attack on potential government sector victims in South East Asia that they believe was carried out by a sophisticated Chinese APT group at least since 2018. "The attack has a complex and complete arsenal of droppers,...

Chinese APT Hackers Target Southeast Asian Government Institutions

Cybersecurity researchers today unveiled a complex and targeted espionage attack on potential government sector victims in South East Asia that they believe was carried out by a sophisticated Chinese APT group at least since 2018. "The attack has a complex and complete arsenal of droppers,...

CRAT wants to plunder your endpoints

By Asheer Malhotra. Cisco Talos has observed a new version of a remote access trojan RAT family known as CRAT.Apart from the prebuilt RAT capabilities, the malware can download and deploy additional malicious plugins on the infected endpoint.One of the plugins is a ransomware known as "Hansom."CR...

Hackers-for-hire APT group found targeting businesses globally

By Deeba Ahmed A hackers-for-hire APT group is using a strain of yet undocumented malware and targeting South Asian firms in the CostaRicto campaign. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers-for-hire APT group found targeting businesses globally...

Uncovered: APT 'Hackers For Hire' Target Financial, Entertainment Firms

A hackers-for-hire operation has been discovered using a strain of previously undocumented malware to target South Asian financial institutions and global entertainment companies. Dubbed "CostaRicto" by Blackberry researchers, the campaign appears to be the handiwork of APT mercenaries who posses...

paradoxiaRAT - Native Windows Remote Access Tool

Paradoxia Remote Access Tool. Features Paradoxia Console Feature | Description ---|--- Easy to use | Paradoxia is extremely easy to use, So far the easiest rat! Root Shell | - Automatic Client build | Build Paradoxia Client easily with or without the icon of your choice. Multithreaded |...

CVE-2020-16122

PackageKit's apt backend mistakenly treated all local debs as trusted. The apt security model is based on repository trust and not on the contents of individual files. On sites with configured PolicyKit rules this may allow users to install malicious packages...

CVE-2020-16122

PackageKit's apt backend mistakenly treated all local debs as trusted. The apt security model is based on repository trust and not on the contents of individual files. On sites with configured PolicyKit rules this may allow users to install malicious packages...

Design/Logic Flaw

PackageKit's apt backend mistakenly treated all local debs as trusted. The apt security model is based on repository trust and not on the contents of individual files. On sites with configured PolicyKit rules this may allow users to install malicious packages...

CVE-2020-16122

CVE-2020-16122 concerns PackageKit’s apt backend, which incorrectly treated all local .deb packages as trusted. The vulnerability arises because the apt security model relies on repository trust rather than the contents of individual files, enabling a local attacker to potentially install malicio...

CVE-2020-16122 Packagekit's apt backend lets user install untrusted local packages

PackageKit's apt backend mistakenly treated all local debs as trusted. The apt security model is based on repository trust and not on the contents of individual files. On sites with configured PolicyKit rules this may allow users to install malicious packages...

CVE-2020-16122

PackageKit's apt backend mistakenly treated all local debs as trusted. The apt security model is based on repository trust and not on the contents of individual files. On sites with configured PolicyKit rules this may allow users to install malicious packages...