Advanced Vishing Attack Campaign “LetsCall” Targets Andriod Users

By Deeba Ahmed In a newly detected muli-stage vishing campaign attackers are using an advanced toolset dubbed LetsCall, featuring strong evasion tactics. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Advanced Vishing Attack Campaign "LetsCall" Targets Andriod Users...

Vishing Goes High-Tech: New 'Letscall' Malware Employs Voice Traffic Routing

Researchers have issued a warning about an emerging and advanced form of voice phishing vishing known as "Letscall." This technique is currently targeting individuals in South Korea. The criminals behind "Letscall" employ a multi-step attack to deceive victims into downloading malicious apps from...

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...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2023-36884

Microsoft Windows Search contains an unspecified vulnerability that could allow an attacker to evade Mark of the Web MOTW defenses via a specially crafted malicious file, leading to remote code execution...

Iranian Hackers Using POWERSTAR Backdoor in Targeted Espionage Attacks

Charming Kitten, the nation-state actor affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC, has been attributed to a bespoke spear-phishing campaign that delivers an updated version of a fully-featured PowerShell backdoor called POWERSTAR. "There have been improved operational security...

New Mockingjay Process Injection Technique Could Let Malware Evade Detection

A new process injection technique dubbed Mockingjay could be exploited by threat actors to bypass security solutions to execute malicious code on compromised systems. "The injection is executed without space allocation, setting permissions or even starting a thread," Security Joes researchers...

Camaro Dragon Hackers Strike with USB-Driven Self-Propagating Malware

The Chinese cyber espionage actor known as Camaro Dragon has been observed leveraging a new strain of self-propagating malware that spreads through compromised USB drives. "While their primary focus has traditionally been Southeast Asian countries, this latest discovery reveals their global reach...

Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or "crypt" your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. In fact, the process of "crypting" malware is sufficiently...

Experts Uncover Year-Long Cyber Attack on IT Firm Utilizing Custom Malware RDStealer

A highly targeted cyber attack against an East Asian IT company involved the deployment of a custom malware written in Golang called RDStealer. "The operation was active for more than a year with the end goal of compromising credentials and data exfiltration," Bitdefender security researcher Vict...

MAL-2023-8357 Malicious code in arangodba (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 8a8f8299dc6c21b2441da8a56c195b046c05f65c0ab9b78f08aff27eb1611ac7 Malicious Typosquatting packages campaign targeting developers, steals cloud service credentials Source: google-open-source-security...

Killer - Is A Tool Created To Evade AVs And EDRs Or Security Tools

It's a AV/EDR Evasion tool created to bypass security tools for learning, until now the tool is FUD. Features: Module Stomping for Memory scanning evasion DLL Unhooking by fresh ntdll copy IAT Hiding and Obfuscation & API Unhooking ETW Patchnig for bypassing some security controls Included sandbo...

SeroXen Incorporates Latest BatCloak Engine Iteration

We looked into the documented behavior of SeroXen malware and noted the inclusion of the latest iteration of the batch obfuscation engine BatCloak to generate a fully undetectable FUD .bat loader. This is the second part of a three-part series documenting the abuse of BatCloak’s evasion...

Cybercriminals Using Powerful BatCloak Engine to Make Malware Fully Undetectable

A fully undetectable FUD malware obfuscation engine named BatCloak is being used to deploy various malware strains since September 2022, while persistently evading antivirus detection. The samples grant "threat actors the ability to load numerous malware families and exploits with ease through...

Cybercriminals Using Powerful BatCloak Engine to Make Malware Fully Undetectable

A fully undetectable FUD malware obfuscation engine named BatCloak is being used to deploy various malware strains since September 2022, while persistently evading antivirus detection. The samples grant "threat actors the ability to load numerous malware families and exploits with ease through...

IT threat evolution Q1 2023

IT threat evolution in Q1 2023 IT threat evolution in Q1 2023. Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q1 2023. Mobile statistics Targeted attacks BlueNoroff introduces new methods bypassing MotW At the close of 2022, we reported the recent activities of BlueNoroff, a financially motivated...

New PowerDrop Malware Targeting U.S. Aerospace Industry

An unknown threat actor has been observed targeting the U.S. aerospace industry with a new PowerShell-based malware called PowerDrop. "PowerDrop uses advanced techniques to evade detection such as deception, encoding, and encryption," according to Adlumin, which found the malware implanted in an...

New PowerDrop Malware Targeting U.S. Aerospace Industry

An unknown threat actor has been observed targeting the U.S. aerospace industry with a new PowerShell-based malware called PowerDrop. "PowerDrop uses advanced techniques to evade detection such as deception, encoding, and encryption," according to Adlumin, which found the malware implanted in an...

Facebook clickbait leads to money scam for users

Online criminals are notorious for lurking on social media sites and tricking users into visiting malicious links. We recently observed a scheme where Facebook users are clicking on posts that lead to external websites set up for the sole purpose of scamming them out of hundreds of dollars via fa...

Magento, WooCommerce, WordPress, and Shopify Exploited in Web Skimmer Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new ongoing Magecart-style web skimmer campaign that's designed to steal personally identifiable information PII and credit card data from e-commerce websites. A noteworthy aspect that sets it apart from other Magecart campaigns is that the hijacked site...

CISA issues warning to US businesses: Beware of China's state-sponsored cyber actor

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has an urgent message for US businesses: watch out for Volt Typhoon, a threat actor sponsored by the Peoples Republic of China PRC. The agency's joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA published last week highlights a cluster of tactics,...