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N. Korea-linked Kimsuky Shifts to Compiled HTML Help Files in Ongoing Cyberattacks
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky aka Black Banshee, Emerald Sleet, or Springtail has been observed shifting its tactics, leveraging Compiled HTML Help CHM files as vectors to deliver malware for harvesting sensitive data. Kimsuky, active since at least 2012, is known to target...
Making Sense of Operational Technology Attacks: The Past, Present, and Future
When you read reports about cyber-attacks affecting operational technology OT, it's easy to get caught up in the hype and assume every single one is sophisticated. But are OT environments all over the world really besieged by a constant barrage of complex cyber-attacks? Answering that would requi...
From Deepfakes to Malware: AI's Expanding Role in Cyber Attacks
Large language models LLMs powering artificial intelligence AI tools today could be exploited to develop self-augmenting malware capable of bypassing YARA rules. "Generative AI can be used to evade string-based YARA rules by augmenting the source code of small malware variants, effectively loweri...
Summary of Vulnerabilities, Actors & Attacks: February 2024
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RansomHouse’s MrAgent Reshaping Automation in Cyber Attacks
Summary: The RansomHouse group, operating as a Ransomware-as-a-Service RaaS entity, has recently introduced a sophisticated tool named MrAgent aimed at automating the deployment of its data encrypter across multiple hypervisors. Threat Level - Amber | Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory,...
Cyber security for Credit Unions 101
American consumers have two clear yet vastly differing choices when it comes to banking. Many opt for a large-sized national or regional bank. Folks select this option for a variety of reasons, typically due to the vast services and ease of use these powerhouses provide. Roughly 60% of Americans...
Iran and Hezbollah Hackers Launch Attacks to Influence Israel-Hamas Narrative
Hackers backed by Iran and Hezbollah staged cyber attacks designed to undercut public support for the Israel-Hamas war after October 2023. This includes destructive attacks against key Israeli organizations, hack-and-leak operations targeting entities in Israel and the U.S., phishing campaigns...
WEB-Wordlist-Generator - Creates Related Wordlists After Scanning Your Web Applications
WEB-Wordlist-Generator scans your web applications and creates related wordlists to take preliminary countermeasures against cyber attacks. Done x Scan Static Files. Scan Metadata Of Public Documents pdf,doc,xls,ppt,docx,pptx,xlsx etc. Create a New Associated Wordlist with the Wordlist Given as a...
Microsoft, OpenAI Warn of Nation-State Hackers Weaponizing AI for Cyber Attacks
Nation-state actors associated with Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China are experimenting with artificial intelligence AI and large language models LLMs to complement their ongoing cyber attack operations. The findings come from a report published by Microsoft in collaboration with OpenAI, both ...
Fortinet Warns of Critical FortiOS SSL VPN Flaw Likely Under Active Exploitation
Fortinet has disclosed a new critical security flaw in FortiOS SSL VPN that it said is likely being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2024-21762 CVSS score: 9.6, allows for the execution of arbitrary code and commands. "A out-of-bounds write vulnerability CWE-787 in FortiOS may allow ...
Global Coalition and Tech Giants Unite Against Commercial Spyware Abuse
A coalition of dozens of countries, including France, the U.K., and the U.S., along with tech companies such as Google, MDSec, Meta, and Microsoft, have signed a joint agreement to curb the abuse of commercial spyware to commit human rights abuses. The initiative, dubbed the Pall Mall Process, ai...
U.S. Sanctions 6 Iranian Officials for Critical Infrastructure Cyber Attacks
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC announced sanctions against six officials associated with the Iranian intelligence agency for attacking critical infrastructure entities in the U.S. and other countries. The officials include Hamid Reza Lashgarian, Mahdi...
FBI removes malware from hundreds of routers across the US
The FBI has used a court order to remove malware from hundreds of routers across the US, and alter the routers’ settings to prevent reinfection. The routers are malware-infected NetGear and Cisco small office/home office SOHO devices that no longer receive updates because they have reached their...
U.S. Feds Shut Down China-Linked "KV-Botnet" Targeting SOHO Routers
The U.S. government on Wednesday said it took steps to neutralize a botnet comprising hundreds of U.S.-based small office and home office SOHO routers hijacked by a China-linked state-sponsored threat actor called Volt Typhoon and blunt the impact posed by the hacking campaign. The existence of t...
CherryTree Impostor Dubbed CherryLoader Makes Its Move
Summary: CherryLoader, a new Go-based downloader, has surfaced in cyber attacks, masquerading as the legitimate CherryTree note-taking app. This sophisticated threat infiltrates compromised hosts, delivering malicious payloads such as privilege escalation tools for exploitation and persistent...
Stopping Credential Stuffing Attacks: We Need to Do Better
Do you know what 23andMe, Jason's Deli, North Face, and Hot Topic have in common? They've all been breached by successful credential stuffing attacks in the last year! An attack type that has gained prominence in recent years is credential stuffing. In this blog, we will explore what credential...
The Ongoing Saga of Job-Themed Attacks
The Ongoing Saga of Job-Themed Attacks By Daksh Kapur and Alfred Alvarado · January 23, 2024 Figure 1 - Job Themed Cyberattacks Attribution at the Bottom In late 2023, Trellix Security Researchers identified an ongoing trend where cybercriminals exploit job-themed attack vectors to target both jo...
Webinar: The Art of Privilege Escalation - How Hackers Become Admins
In the digital age, the battleground for security professionals is not only evolving, it's expanding at an alarming rate. The upcoming webinar, "The Art of Privilege Escalation - How Hackers Become Admins," offers an unmissable opportunity for IT security experts to stay ahead in this relentless...
Dark web threats and dark market predictions for 2024
An overview of last years predictions 1. Increase in personal data leaks; corporate email at risk A data leakage is a broad term encompassing various types of information that become publicly available, or published for sale on the dark web or other shadow web sites. Leaked information may includ...
