Estonian Arrested: Accused of Supplying Hacking Tools to Russia

By Habiba Rashid Shevlyakov obtained delicate electronic equipment from American manufacturers for the use of Russian end-users, such as defence contractors and other government agencies This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Estonian Arrested: Accused of Supplying Hacking Tools...

Lazarus Group Likely Using New WinorDLL64 Backdoor to Exfiltrate Sensitive Data

A new backdoor associated with a malware downloader named Wslink has been discovered, with the tool likely used by the notorious North Korea-aligned Lazarus Group, new findings reveal. The payload, dubbed WinorDLL64 by ESET, is a fully-featured implant that can exfiltrate, overwrite, and delete...

Chinese Hackers Targeting South American Diplomatic Entities with ShadowPad

Microsoft on Monday attributed a China-based cyber espionage actor to a set of attacks targeting diplomatic entities in South America. The tech giant's Security Intelligence team is tracking the cluster under the emerging moniker DEV-0147, describing the activity as an "expansion of the group's...

Top 20 Most Popular Hacking Tools in 2022

As last year, this year we made a ranking with the most popular tools between January and December 2022. Topics of the tools focus on Phishing, Information Gathering, Automation Tools, among others. Without going into further details, we have prepared a useful list of the most popular tools in...

Earth Longzhi: New subgroup of APT41

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Earth Longzhi is running a spearphishing campaign to infect organizations with a payload such as Cobalt Strike loader, Symatic loader, CroxLoader, BigpipeLoader, OutLoader, and other custom hacking tools...

British Hacker Charged for Operating "The Real Deal" Dark Web Marketplace

A 34-year-old U.K. national has been arraigned in the U.S. for operating a dark web marketplace called The Real Deal that specialized in the sales of hacking tools and stolen login credentials. Daniel Kaye, who went by a litany of pseudonyms Popopret, Bestbuy, UserL0ser, and Spdrman, has been...

Researchers Uncover Custom Backdoors and Spying Tools Used by Polonium Hackers

A threat actor tracked as Polonium has been linked to over a dozen highly targeted attacks aimed at Israelian entities with seven different custom backdoors since at least September 2021. The intrusions were aimed at organizations in various verticals, such as engineering, information technology,...

MuddyWater targets Israeli organizations by exploiting unpatched log4j vulnerabilities

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary MuddyWater, an Iranian threat actor, exploits Log4j two vulnerabilities in SysAid applications to target Israeli organizations. As soon as the attacker gains access to the targeted organization, it...

Cisco Confirms Network Breach Via Hacked Employee Google Account

Cisco Systems revealed details of a May hack by the Yanluowang ransomware group that leveraged a compromised employee’s Google account. The networking giant is calling the attack a “potential compromise” in a Wednesday post by the company’s own Cisco Talos threat research arm. “During the...

Untangling KNOTWEED: European private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC and the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC found a private-sector offensive actor PSOA using multiple Windows and Adobe 0-day exploits, including one for the recently patched CVE-2022-22047, in limited and targeted attacks against European and...

Man pleads guilty to selling WhatsApp hacking tool, Signal Jammers & StingRays

By Waqas Carlos Guerrero, a prominent businessman marketed and sold hacking tools, IMSI catchers, and other malicious tools to clients… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man pleads guilty to selling WhatsApp hacking tool, Signal Jammers & StingRays...

Top 20 Most Popular Hacking Tools in 2021

As last year, this year we made a ranking with the most popular tools between January and December 2021. Topics of the tools focus on Phishing, Information Gathering, Automation Tools,, among others. Without going into further details, we have prepared a useful list of the most popular tools in...

NSO Group Spyware Hits at Least 9 US State Department Phones

The incident lays bare how hollow the surveillance company’s reassurances about the limits of its hacking tools have always been...

New York Times Journalist Hacked with NSO Spyware

Citizen Lab is reporting that a New York Times journalist was hacked with the NSO Groups spyware Pegasus, probably by the Saudis. The world needs to do something about these cyberweapons arms manufacturers. This kind of thing isnt enough; NSO Group is an Israeli company...

The Proliferation of Zero-days

The MIT Technology Review is reporting that 2021 is a blockbuster year for zero-day exploits: One contributing factor in the higher rate of reported zero-days is the rapid global proliferation of hacking tools. Powerful groups are all pouring heaps of cash into zero-days to use for themselves --...

Bash Ransomware DarkRadiation Targets Red Hat- and Debian-based Linux Distributions

We investigate how certain hacking tools are used to move laterally on victims’ networks to deploy ransomware. These tools contain reconnaissance/spreader scripts, exploits for Red Hat and CentOS, binary injectors, and more. In this blog, we focus on analyzing the worm and ransomware script...

Top 20 Most Popular Hacking Tools in 2020

Although 2020 has been the worst year since 1945, as last year, this year we made a ranking with the most popular tools between January and December 2020. Topics of the tools focus on Phishing, Information Gathering, Android Hacking Tools, Automation Tools,, among others. Without going into furth...

FireEye Hacked

FireEye was hacked by -- they believe -- "a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities": During our investigation to date, we have found that the attacker targeted and accessed certain Red Team assessment tools that we use to test our customers’ security. These tools mimic the behavior of many...

Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Got Hacked; Red-Team Pentest Tools Stolen

FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity firms in the world, said on Tuesday it became a victim of a state-sponsored attack by a "highly sophisticated threat actor" that stole its arsenal of Red Team penetration testing tools it uses to test the defenses of its customers. The company said it's...

UAE Hack and Leak Operations

Interesting paper on recent hack-and-leak operations attributed to the UAE: Abstract: Four hack-and-leak operations in U.S. politics between 2016 and 2019, publicly attributed to the United Arab Emirates UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, should be seen as the "simulation of scandal" ­-- deliberate...