Researchers Detail Multistage Attack Hijacking Systems with SSLoad, Cobalt Strike

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an ongoing attack campaign that's leveraging phishing emails to deliver a malware called SSLoad. The campaign, codenamed FROZENSHADOW by Securonix, also involves the deployment of Cobalt Strike and the ConnectWise ScreenConnect remote desktop software...

Researchers Uncover Grayling APT's Ongoing Attack Campaign Across Industries

A previously undocumented threat actor of unknown provenance has been linked to a number of attacks targeting organizations in the manufacturing, IT, and biomedical sectors in Taiwan. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, attributed the attacks to an advanced persistent threat APT it...

North Korean Hackers Suspected in New Wave of Malicious npm Packages

The npm package registry has emerged as the target of yet another highly targeted attack campaign that aims to entice developers into downloading malevolent modules. Software supply chain security firm Phylum told The Hacker News the activity exhibits similar behaviors to that of a previous attac...

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...

SCARLETEEL Cryptojacking Campaign Exploiting AWS Fargate in Ongoing Campaign

Cloud environments continue to be at the receiving end of an ongoing advanced attack campaign dubbed SCARLETEEL, with the threat actors now setting their sights on Amazon Web Services AWS Fargate. "Cloud environments are still their primary target, but the tools and techniques used have adapted t...

Kubernetes RBAC Exploited in Large-Scale Campaign for Cryptocurrency Mining

A large-scale attack campaign discovered in the wild has been exploiting Kubernetes K8s Role-Based Access Control RBAC to create backdoors and run cryptocurrency miners. "The attackers also deployed DaemonSets to take over and hijack resources of the K8s clusters they attack," cloud security firm...

UNC4466 Attack Campaign Targets Veritas Backup Exec and Deploys ALPHV Ransomware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary UNC4466 conducted an attack campaign in late 2022, gaining initial access to an internet-exposed Windows server running Veritas Backup Exec and deploying the ALPHV ransomware, with over 8,500 potentially...

Hackers Exploit Containerized Environments to Steal Proprietary Data and Software

A sophisticated attack campaign dubbed SCARLETEEL is targeting containerized environments to perpetrate theft of proprietary data and software. "The attacker exploited a containerized workload and then leveraged it to perform privilege escalation into an AWS account in order to steal proprietary...

Malicious code in tkkcalendar (PyPI)

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Malicious code in websokcet-client (PyPI)

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Malicious code in pyhon-binance (PyPI)

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Malicious code in pytorchh (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx a8849f805c2390ee65ac1c6074cc16a0d61d6ac47a30ca12c60bdba2e7f0e90a Attacker distributed 900+ malicious packages via PyPi, infecting local browsers with malicious extension to manipulate clipboard and replace crypto wallet...

Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082

On September 29, Microsoft security researchers announced two new zero-day vulnerabilities, CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082 affecting Microsoft Exchange Server. The vulnerabilities allow remote code execution RCE when used in tandem. It is important to note that both require authenticated acces...

Researchers Uncover Covert Attack Campaign Targeting Military Contractors

A new covert attack campaign singled out multiple military and weapons contractor companies with spear-phishing emails to trigger a multi-stage infection process designed to deploy an unknown payload on compromised machines. The highly-targeted intrusions, dubbed STEEPMAVERICK by Securonix, also...

Hackers Exploited Zero-Day RCE Vulnerability in Sophos Firewall — Patch Released

Security software company Sophos has released a patch update for its firewall product after it was discovered that attackers were exploiting a new critical zero-day vulnerability to attack its customers' network. The issue, tracked as CVE-2022-3236 CVSS score: 9.8, impacts Sophos Firewall v19.0 M...

Hackers Targeting VoIP Servers By Exploiting Digium Phone Software

VoIP phones using Digium's software have been targeted to drop a web shell on their servers as part of an attack campaign designed to exfiltrate data by downloading and executing additional payloads. "The malware installs multilayer obfuscated PHP backdoors to the web server's file system,...

PSA: Sudden Increase In Attacks On Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons Vulnerability

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has been monitoring a sudden increase in attack attempts targeting Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons. This ongoing campaign is attempting to take advantage of an arbitrary file upload vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-24284, which has been...

Heroku Forces User Password Resets Following GitHub OAuth Token Theft

Salesforce-owned subsidiary Heroku on Thursday acknowledged that the theft of GitHub integration OAuth tokens further involved unauthorized access to an internal customer database. The company, in an updated notification, revealed that a compromised token was abused to breach the database and...

GitHub Notifies Victims Whose Private Data Was Accessed Using OAuth Tokens

GitHub on Monday noted that it had notified all victims of an attack campaign, which involved an unauthorized party downloading private repository contents by taking advantage of third-party OAuth user tokens maintained by Heroku and Travis CI. "Customers should also continue to monitor Heroku an...

GitHub Says Hackers Breached Dozens of Organizations Using Stolen OAuth Access Tokens

Cloud-based repository hosting service GitHub on Friday revealed that it discovered evidence of an unnamed adversary capitalizing on stolen OAuth user tokens to unauthorizedly download private data from several organizations. "An attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party...