China’s Cyber Espionage Targets Semiconductor Giants in East Asia

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary In recent cyber espionage activities, threat actors affiliated with the Peoples Republic of China PRC have targeted semiconductor companies operating in Mandarin/Chinese-speaking regions of East Asia...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 14 August to 20 August 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs has recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, we identified a total of eight executed attacks, one instance of adversary activity, and four zero-day...

BlackByte 2.0 Ransomware: Infiltrate, Encrypt, and Extort in Just 5 Days

Ransomware attacks are a major problem for organizations everywhere, and the severity of this problem continues to intensify. Recently, Microsoft's Incident Response team investigated the BlackByte 2.0 ransomware attacks and exposed these cyber strikes' terrifying velocity and damaging nature. Th...

Cybersecurity Agencies Sound Alarm on Rising TrueBot Malware Attacks

Cybersecurity agencies have warned about the emergence of new variants of the TrueBot malware. This enhanced threat is now targeting companies in the U.S. and Canada with the intention of extracting confidential data from infiltrated systems. These sophisticated attacks exploit a critical...

Cybersecurity Agencies Sound Alarm on Rising TrueBot Malware Attacks

Cybersecurity agencies have warned about the emergence of new variants of the TrueBot malware. This enhanced threat is now targeting companies in the U.S. and Canada with the intention of extracting confidential data from infiltrated systems. These sophisticated attacks exploit a critical...

Bl00dy Ransomware Gang Strikes Education Sector with Critical PaperCut Vulnerability

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have warned of attacks carried out by a threat actor known as the Bl00dy Ransomware Gang that attempt to exploit vulnerable PaperCut servers against the education facilities sector in the country. The attacks took place in early May 2023, the Federal...

BumbleBee leverages Zerologon to get Domain Controller Access

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Since May 2022, threat actors are leveraging BumbleBee as an initial vector from a Contact Forms campaign. The intrusion started with the delivery of an ISO file that contained an LNK and a DLL. Using...

New campaign uses government, union-themed lures to deliver Cobalt Strike beacons

By Chetan Raghuprasad and Vanja Svajcer. Cisco Talos discovered a malicious campaign in August 2022 delivering Cobalt Strike beacons that could be used in later, follow-on attacks. Lure themes in the phishing documents in this campaign are related to the job details of a government organization i...

Russian Hackers Using DropBox and Google Drive to Drop Malicious Payloads — The Hacker News

The Russian state-sponsored hacking collective known as APT29 has been attributed to a new phishing campaign that takes advantage of legitimate cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox to deliver malicious payloads on compromised systems. "These campaigns are believed to have targeted several...

Patch Your WSO2: CVE-2022-29464 Exploited to Install Linux-Compatible Cobalt Strike Beacons, Other Malware

Users of WSO2 products are advised to update their respective products and platforms or to apply the temporary mitigation steps immediately...

Emotet Now Using Unconventional IP Address Formats to Evade Detection

Social engineering campaigns involving the deployment of the Emotet malware botnet have been observed using "unconventional" IP address formats for the first time in a bid to sidestep detection by security solutions. This involves the use of hexadecimal and octal representations of the IP address...

New Exploit Lets Malware Attackers Bypass Patch for Critical Microsoft MSHTML Flaw

A short-lived phishing campaign has been observed taking advantage of a novel exploit that bypassed a patch put in place by Microsoft to fix a remote code execution vulnerability affecting the MSHTML component with the goal of delivering Formbook malware. "The attachments represent an escalation ...

TrickBot Operators Partner with Shathak Attackers for Conti Ransomware

The operators of TrickBot trojan are collaborating with the Shathak threat group to distribute their wares, ultimately leading to the deployment of Conti ransomware on infected machines. "The implementation of TrickBot has evolved over the years, with recent versions of TrickBot implementing...

Zebra2104 Initial Access Broker Supports Rival Malware Gangs, APTs

Three separate threat groups are all using a common initial access broker IAB to enable their cyberattacks, according to researchers – a finding that has revealed a tangled web of related attack infrastructure underpinning disparate and in some cases rival malware campaigns. The BlackBerry Resear...