Meta Uncovers Massive Social Media Cyber Espionage Operations Across South Asia

Three different threat actors leveraged hundreds of elaborate fictitious personas on Facebook and Instagram to target individuals located in South Asia as part of disparate attacks. "Each of these APTs relied heavily on social engineering to trick people into clicking on malicious links,...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Migration Toolkit for Containers (MTC) 1.7.9 security and bug fix update

The Migration Toolkit for Containers MTC 1.7.9 is now available. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE...

BouldSpy Android Spyware: Iranian Government's Alleged Tool for Spying on Minority Groups

A new Android surveillanceware possibly used by the Iranian government has been used to spy on over 300 individuals belonging to minority groups. The malware, dubbed BouldSpy , has been attributed with moderate confidence to the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran FARAJA...

BouldSpy Android Spyware: Iranian Government's Alleged Tool for Spying on Minority Groups

A new Android surveillanceware possibly used by the Iranian government has been used to spy on over 300 individuals belonging to minority groups. The malware, dubbed BouldSpy, has been attributed with moderate confidence to the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran FARAJA...

Amazon Linux 2 : docker (ALASDOCKER-2023-024)

The version of docker installed on the remote host is prior to 20.10.22-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2DOCKER-2023-024 advisory. A flaw was found in Moby. This flaw allows an attacker to bypass primary group restrictions due to a flaw in the...

Attention Online Shoppers: Don't Be Fooled by Their Sleek, Modern Looks — It's Magecart!

An ongoing Magecart campaign has attracted the attention of cybersecurity researchers for leveraging realistic-looking fake payment screens to capture sensitive data entered by unsuspecting users. "The threat actor used original logos from the compromised store and customized a web element known ...

Chinese Hackers Using MgBot Malware to Target International NGOs in Mainland China

The advanced persistent threat APT group referred to as Evasive Panda has been observed targeting an international non-governmental organization NGO in Mainland China with malware delivered via update channels of legitimate applications like Tencent QQ. The attack chains are designed to distribut...

Hacker Group Names Are Now Absurdly Out of Control

Pumpkin Sandstorm. Spandex Tempest. Charming Kitten. Is this really how we want to name the hackers wreaking havoc worldwide?...

Microsoft shifts to a new threat actor naming taxonomy

April 19, 2023 update – We have published a JSON file mapping old threat actor names with their new names in the updated taxonomy, summarized here: https://aka.ms/threatactors. We also added hunting queries that Microsoft customers can use while transitioning to the new taxonomy. See the Resource...

Microsoft shifts to a new threat actor naming taxonomy

April 19, 2023 update – We have published a JSON file mapping old threat actor names with their new names in the updated taxonomy, summarized here: https://aka.ms/threatactors. We also added hunting queries that Microsoft customers can use while transitioning to the new taxonomy. See the Resource...

5 Types of Cyber Crime Groups

Discover the five main types of cyber crime groups: access as a service, ransomware as a service, bulletproof hosting, crowd sourcing, and phishing as a service as well as tips to strengthen your defense strategy...

5 Types of Cyber Crime Groups

Discover the five main types of cyber crime groups: access as a service, ransomware as a service, bulletproof hosting, crowd sourcing, and phishing as a service as well as tips to strengthen your defense strategy...

SUSE-SU-2023:1826-1 Security update for containerd

This update for containerd fixes the following issues: Update to containerd v1.6.19: Security fixes: - CVE-2023-25153: Fixed OCI image importer memory exhaustion bnc1208423. - CVE-2023-25173: Fixed supplementary groups not set up properly bnc1208426...

EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : docker-engine (EulerOS-SA-2023-1591)

According to the versions of the docker-engine package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - containerd is an open source container runtime. Before versions 1.6.18 and 1.5.18, when importing an OCI image, there was no limit on the...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 3 April to 9 April 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, they identified a total of five attacks that were executed...

How to Create and Manage Groups on iPhone

By Owais Sultan Youre sitting with your iPhone in hand, gazing at the screen with annoyance, fury, and helplessness. You need… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to Create and Manage Groups on iPhone...

Microsoft Takes Legal Action to Disrupt Cybercriminals' Illegal Use of Cobalt Strike Tool

Microsoft said it teamed up with Fortra and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center Health-ISAC to tackle the abuse of Cobalt Strike by cybercriminals to distribute malware, including ransomware. To that end, the tech giant's Digital Crimes Unit DCU revealed that it secured a court order i...

Microsoft Takes Legal Action to Disrupt Cybercriminals' Illegal Use of Cobalt Strike Tool

Microsoft said it teamed up with Fortra and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center Health-ISAC to tackle the abuse of Cobalt Strike by cybercriminals to distribute malware, including ransomware. To that end, the tech giant's Digital Crimes Unit DCU revealed that it secured a court order i...

Amazon Linux 2 : containerd (ALASDOCKER-2023-023)

The version of containerd installed on the remote host is prior to 1.6.19-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2DOCKER-2023-023 advisory. containerd is an open source container runtime. A bug was found in containerd's CRI implementation where a user c...

Amazon Linux 2 : containerd (ALASNITRO-ENCLAVES-2023-023)

The version of containerd installed on the remote host is prior to 1.6.19-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2NITRO-ENCLAVES-2023-023 advisory. containerd is an open source container runtime. A bug was found in containerd's CRI implementation where ...