MosesStaff Locks Up Targets, with No Ransom Demand, No Decryption

The MosesStaff hacking group is aiming politically motivated, destructive attacks at Israeli targets, looking to inflict the most damage possible, researchers warned. Unlike other anti-Zionist hacktivists like the Pay2Key and BlackShadow gangs, which look to extort their victims and cause...

Mysterious Custom Malware Collects Billions of Stolen Data Points

Researchers have uncovered a 1.2-terabyte database of stolen data, lifted from 3.2 million Windows-based computers over the course of two years by an unknown, custom malware. The heisted info includes 6.6 million files and 26 million credentials, and 2 billion web login cookies – with 400 million...

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...

Russian Espionage Group Updates Custom Malware Suite

The advanced persistent threat APT known as Turla is targeting government organizations using custom malware, including an updated trio of implants that give the group persistence through overlapping backdoor access. Russia-tied Turla a.k.a. Ouroboros, Snake, Venomous Bear or Waterbug is a...

Chinese Ministry of State Security-Affiliated Cyber Threat Actor Activity

Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has consistently observed Chinese Ministry of State Security MSS-affiliated cyber threat actors using publicly available information sources and common, well-known tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs to target U.S. Government...

OldGremlin Ransomware Group Bedevils Russian Orgs

A new cybercriminal group called OldGremlin has been targeting Russian companies – including banks, industrial enterprises and medical firms – with ransomware attacks. OldGremlin relies on a bevy of tools, including custom backdoors called TinyPosh and TinyNode, to gain an initial foothold in the...

Hackers Target Military and Aerospace Staff by Posing as HRs Offering Jobs

Cybersecurity researchers today took the wraps off a new sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign directed against aerospace and military organizations in Europe and the Middle East with an aim to spy on key employees of the targeted firms and, in some case, even to siphon money. The campaign, dubb...

LinkedIn 'Job Offers' Targeted Aerospace, Military Firms With Malware

Attackers are impersonating human resource employees from Collins Aerospace and General Dynamics in a spear-phishing campaign leveraging LinkedIn’s messaging service. Targets are sent phony job offers that include malicious documents designed to fetch data-exfiltrating malware. The spear-phishing...

VMware Carbon Black Threat Report: One Year Out From the 2020 U.S. Elections, Geopolitical Tension Continues to Spawn Cyberattacks

This morning, VMware Carbon Black released its latest Global Incident Response Threat Report GIRTR. Now in its fourth edition, the GIRTR is written in partnership with VMware Carbon Black's incident response IR partner ecosystem and aggregates input from top IR experts to give you, the reader, a...

Calypso APT Emerges from the Shadows to Target Governments

A newly discovered APT group, dubbed Calypso after a custom malware RAT that it uses, has been targeting state institutions in six different countries since 2016. Government organizations in India 34 percent, Brazil and Kazakhstan 18 percent respectively, Russia and Thailand 12 percent respective...

Jackson-Databind framework json deserialization code execution vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

2017/04/11, ayound reported a Jackson Databind framework json deserialization vulnerability, an attacker exploit the vulnerability in the server on the host to execute arbitrary code or system commands, obtain the web server control. Affected versions: The jackson databind 2.7.10 and 2. 8. 9 The...

Home Depot data breach 53 million email addresses stolen

Home Depot said Thursday that its network was breached by hackers using stolen credentials from a third-party vendor to not only make off with 56 million payment card numbers, but also 53 million email addresses. The giant retailer warned affected customers to be on the lookout for phishing scams...

Inside the Targeted Attack on The New York Times

The Chinese group behind the targeted attack on the New York Times was laser focused on accessing the email of a reporter and the newspaper’s former Beijing bureau chief to the point that it used an inordinate number of custom malware samples to get the job done. “In terms of statistics, 45 custo...

Trojan Downloader Determines OS, Infects Systems With Custom Malware

A new downloader uncovered by researchers at the Finnish security firm F-Secure is capable of sniffing out which operating system a user is running and infecting them with a custom malicious payload. F-Secure’s Karmina Aquino discovered the attack on a compromised Colombian transport website. The...

PCI Compliance No Real Obstacle to Compromises

SAN FRANCISCO–The PCI DSS standard has taken a beating from critics, security experts and CSOs virtually since the day it appeared in its earliest form in 2004. It’s evolved quite a bit in the intervening years, but it hasn’t shaken any of that criticism, and security folks say there’s a good...

Malware, Exploit Kit Writers Merging Their Talents

MALAGA, SPAIN–Botnets have been around for more than 15 years now, and for much of that time they’ve been the favored platform for attackers looking to compromise users on a large scale and monetize those infected machines. But now, as researchers and authorities begin to have more success with...