North Korean attackers use malicious blogs to deliver malware to high-profile South Korean targets

By Jung soo An and Asheer Malhotra, with contributions from Kendall McKay. Cisco Talos has observed a new malware campaign operated by the Kimsuky APT group since June 2021.Kimsuky, also known as Thallium and Black Banshee, is a North Korean state-sponsored advanced... This is only the beginning!...

Researchers Discover PhoneSpy Malware Spying on South Korean Citizens

An ongoing mobile spyware campaign has been uncovered snooping on South Korean residents using a family of 23 malicious Android apps to siphon sensitive information and gain remote control of the devices. "With more than a thousand South Korean victims, the malicious group behind this invasive...

Samsung Notes libSPenBase buffer overflow vulnerability (CNVD-2022-86540)

Samsung Notes is an application from Samsung South Korea. It is used to provide a recording function. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in versions prior to Samsung Note 4.3.02.61, which stems from a lack of buffer bounds checking in the libSPenBase library, and can be exploited by a remote...

python: Unsafe use of eval() on data retrieved via HTTP in the test suite

In Python3's Lib/test/multibytecodecsupport.py CJK codec tests call eval on content retrieved via HTTP...

New variant of Konni malware used in campaign targetting Russia

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi In late July 2021, we identified an ongoing spear phishing campaign pushing Konni Rat to target Russia. Konni was first observed in the wild in 2014 and has been potentially linked to the North Korean APT group named APT37. We discovered two documents...

InkySquid State Actor Exploiting Known IE Bugs

The InkySquid advanced persistent threat APT group, which researchers have linked to the North Korean government, was caught launching watering hole attacks against a South Korean newspaper using known Internet Explorer vulnerabilities. New analysis from Volexity reported its team of researchers...

NK Hackers Deploy Browser Exploits on South Korean Sites to Spread Malware

A North Korean threat actor has been discovered taking advantage of two exploits in Internet Explorer to infect victims with a custom implant as part of a strategic web compromise SWC targeting a South Korean online newspaper. Cybersecurity firm Volexity attributed the watering hole attacks to a...

LG mobile 安全漏洞

LG mobile is a line of mobile device products from LG. A security vulnerability exists in LG mobile devices, which stems from a misconfiguration of the debug command that can be exploited to change some NvRAM contents...

Oil & Gas Targeted in Year-Long Espionage Campaign

A sophisticated campaign targeting large international companies in the oil and gas sector has been underway for more than a year, researchers said, spreading common remote access trojans RATs for cyber-espionage purposes. According to Intezer analysis, spear-phishing emails with malicious...

Atomic research institute breached via VPN vulnerability

Remember when we told you to patch your VPNs already? I hate to say "I told you so", but I informed you thusly. According to South Korean officials a North Korean cyber-espionage group managed to infiltrate the network of South Koreas state-run nuclear research institute last month. The crime: ti...

N Korean hackers used VPN flaws to breach S Korean atomic agency

By Deeba Ahmed Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute KAERI has disclosed that its internal network suffered a cyber attack by hackers from North Korea. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: N Korean hackers used VPN flaws to breach S Korean atomic agency...

Malware Attack on South Korean Entities Was Work of Andariel Group

A malware campaign targeting South Korean entities that came to light earlier this year has been attributed to a North Korean nation-state hacking group called Andariel, once again indicating that Lazarus attackers are following the trends and their arsenal is in constant development. "The way...

Researchers Uncover Hacking Operations Targeting Government Entities in South Korea

A North Korean threat actor active since 2012 has been behind a new espionage campaign targeting high-profile government officials associated with its southern counterpart to install an Android and Windows backdoor for collecting sensitive information. Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes attributed t...

glibc: buffer over-read in iconv when processing invalid multi-byte input sequences in the EUC-KR encoding

A flaw was found in glibc. When processing input in the EUC-KR encoding, an invalid input sequence could cause glibc to read beyond the end of a buffer, resulting in a segmentation fault. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability...

Lazarus APT Hackers are now using BMP images to hide RAT malware

A spear-phishing attack operated by a North Korean threat actor targeting its southern counterpart has been found to conceal its malicious code within a bitmap .BMP image file to drop a remote access trojan RAT capable of stealing sensitive information. Attributing the attack to the Lazarus Group...

AppleJeus: Analysis of North Korea’s Cryptocurrency Malware

Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. This joint advisory is the result of analytic efforts among the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI,...

What’s New in InsightIDR: Q1 2021 in Review

Back at the start of the year, we reflected on some of our 2020 InsightIDR product investments and took a look at what was ahead in 2021 see the blog here. As the first quarter of the year comes to a close, we wanted to offer a closer look at some of the recent updates and releases in InsightIDR,...

Cops Take Down the ‘World’s Biggest' Video Game Cheat Ring

Plus: North Korean hackers, a rogue tweet, and more of the week's top security news...

Hackers Setup Fake Cyber Security firm to Target InfoSec Experts

By Waqas Google believes the hackers are backed by the North Korean government. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Setup Fake Cyber Security firm to Target InfoSec Experts...

North Korean APT Gears Up to Target Security Researchers

The same North Korean threat actors that targeted security researchers in January appear to be readying a new campaign using a fake company and associated social-media accounts that aim to lure security professionals into another cyber-espionage trap. Google discovered the site as well as Twitter...