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This Week in Security News: How the Cybercriminal Underground Has Changed in 5 Years and the NSA Warns of New Sandworm Attacks on Email Servers
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how, over the past five years, the cybercriminal underground has seen a major shift to new platforms, communications channels,...
New ComRAT Malware Uses Gmail to Receive Commands and Exfiltrate Data
Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a new advanced version of ComRAT backdoor, one of the earliest known backdoors used by the Turla APT group, that leverages Gmail's web interface to covertly receive commands and exfiltrate sensitive data. "ComRAT v4 was first seen in 2017 and known still ...
NSO Group Impersonates Facebook Security Team to Spread Spyware — Report
According to an investigative journalist team, the Israeli authors of the infamous Pegasus mobile spyware, NSO Group, have been using a spoofed Facebook login page, crafted to look like an internal Facebook security team portal, to lure victims in. The news comes as Facebook alleges that NSO Grou...
Chafer APT Hits Middle East Govs With Latest Cyber-Espionage Attacks
Researchers have uncovered new cybercrime campaigns from the known Chafer advanced persistent threat APT group. The attacks have hit several air transportation and government victims in hopes of data exfiltration. The Chafer APT has been active since 2014 and has previously launched cyber espiona...
Iranian APT Group Targets Governments in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
Today, cybersecurity researchers shed light on an Iranian cyber espionage campaign directed against critical infrastructures in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bitdefender said the intelligence-gathering operations were conducted by Chafer APT also known as APT39 or Remix Kitten, a threat actor known fo...
Iranian APT Group Targets Governments in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
Today, cybersecurity researchers shed light on an Iranian cyber espionage campaign directed against critical infrastructures in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bitdefender said the intelligence-gathering operations were conducted by Chafer APT also known as APT39 or Remix Kitten, a threat actor known fo...
Verizon DBIR: Web App Attacks and Security Errors Surge
Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR, released Tuesday, analyzed 32,002 security incidents and 3,950 data breaches to sniff out the top causes of data breaches over the past year. While cyber-espionage attacks and malware decreased, other trends, such as security “errors” cloud...
Verizon Data Breach Report: DoS Skyrockets, Espionage Dips
Denial-of-service DoS attacks have spiked over the past year, while cyber-espionage campaigns have spiraled downwards. That’s according to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR released Tuesday, which analyzed 32,002 security incidents and 3,950 data breaches across 16 industry...
A week in security (May 11 – May 17)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we explained why RevenueWire has to pay $6.7 million to settle FTC charges, how CVSS works: characterizing and scoring vulnerabilities, and we talked about how and why hackers hit a major law firm with Sodinokibi ransomware. We also launched another episode of our...
HTTP Status Codes Command This Malware How to Control Hacked Systems
A new version of COMpfun remote access trojan RAT has been discovered in the wild that uses HTTP status codes to control compromised systems targeted in a recent campaign against diplomatic entities in Europe. The cyberespionage malware—traced to Turla APT with "medium-to-low level of confidence"...
Ramsay Malware Targets Air-Gapped Networks
A cyber-espionage malware has been discovered that’s capable of collecting and exfiltrating sensitive documents from within air‑gapped networks. The malware, dubbed Ramsay, is still under active development — so far, researchers have found three different samples, with each sample adding new...
Feds Reveal Hidden Cobra's Trove of Espionage Tools
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation have exposed what they say are hacking tools used by the North Korean-sponsored APT group Hidden Cobra. The disclosure was the result of a broad government effort to combat the advanced persistent threat group, who have...
U.S. Defense Warns of 3 New Malware Used by North Korean Hackers
Yesterday, on the 3rd anniversary of the infamous global WannaCry ransomware outbreak for which North Korea was blamed, the U.S. government released information about three new malware strains used by state-sponsored North Korean hackers. Called COPPERHEDGE, TAINTEDSCRIBE, and PEBBLEDASH, the...
Naikon’s Aria
Our colleagues at Checkpoint put together a fine research writeup on some Naikon resources and activity related to "aria-body" that we detected in 2017 and similarly reported in 2018. To supplement their research findings, we are summarizing and publishing portions of the findings reported in our...
Naikon APT Hid Five-Year Espionage Attack Under Radar
After five years under the radar, the Naikon APT group has been unmasked in a long-term espionage campaign against several governments in the Asia-Pacific region. The Chinese APT group was first uncovered by Kaspersky researchers in 2015, in attacks against top-level government agencies around th...
This Asia-Pacific Cyber Espionage Campaign Went Undetected for 5 Years
An advanced group of Chinese hackers has recently been spotted to be behind a sustained cyber espionage campaign targeting government entities in Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Brunei—which went undetected for at least five years and is still an ongoing threat...
This Asia-Pacific Cyber Espionage Campaign Went Undetected for 5 Years
An advanced group of Chinese hackers has recently been spotted to be behind a sustained cyber espionage campaign targeting government entities in Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Brunei—which went undetected for at least five years and is still an ongoing threat...
News Wrap: Microsoft Sway Phish, Malicious GIF and Spyware Attacks
Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch talk about the biggest news stories of the week ended May 1, including: A “PhantomLance” espionage campaign discovered targeting specific Android victims, mainly in Southeast Asia — which could be the work of the OceanLotus APT...
iOS Mail bug allows remote zero-click attacks
On Monday, ZecOps released a report about a couple concerning vulnerabilities with the Mail app in iOS. These vulnerabilities would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the Mail app or the maild process that assists the Mail app behind the scenes. Most concerning, though, is the fact th...
