New Konfety Malware Variant Evades Detection by Manipulating APKs and Dynamic Code

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, sophisticated variant of a known Android malware referred to as Konfety that leverages the evil twin technique to enable ad fraud. The sneaky approach essentially involves a scenario wherein two variants of an application share the same package nam...

Interesting WordPress Malware Disguised as Legitimate Anti-Malware Plugin

📢In case you missed it, Wordfence just published itsannual WordPress security report for 2024. Read it now to learn more about the evolving risk landscape of WordPress so you can keep your sites protected in 2025 and beyond. The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team recently discovered an interestin...

New Mirai Variant Murdoc_Botnet Launches DDoS Attacks via IoT Exploits

This article explores the recent campaign of MurdocBotnet, a malware variant of Mirai targeting vulnerable AVTECH and Huawei…...

New Backdoor Created Using Leaked CIA's Hive Malware Discovered in the Wild

Unidentified threat actors have deployed a new backdoor that borrows its features from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA's Hive multi-platform malware suite, the source code of which was released by WikiLeaks in November 2017. "This is the first time we caught a variant of the CIA Hive...

Masslogger Trojan Upgraded to Steal All Your Outlook, Chrome Credentials

A credential stealer infamous for targeting Windows systems has resurfaced in a new phishing campaign that aims to steal credentials from Microsoft Outlook, Google Chrome, and instant messenger apps. Primarily directed against users in Turkey, Latvia, and Italy starting mid-January, the attacks...

MacOS Users Targeted By OceanLotus Backdoor

A macOS backdoor variant has been uncovered that relies of multi-stage payloads and various updated anti-detection techniques. Researchers linked it to the OceanLotus advanced persistent threat APT group. The Vietnam-backed OceanLotus also known as APT 32 has been around since at least 2013, and...

CISA, FBI, and CNMF Identify a New Malware Variant: ComRAT

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the Department of Defense Cyber National Mission Force CNMF have identified a malware variant—referred to as ComRAT—used by the Russian-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT actor Turla. In...

Attacker builds malware variant with leaked Mirai source code

By Sudais Asif The source code of Mirai was leaked in September 2016, on the hacking community Hackforums. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Attacker builds malware variant with leaked Mirai source code...

North Korean Malicious Cyber Activity

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have identified a malware variant—referred to as BLINDINGCAN—used by North Korean actors. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Malware Analysis Report MAR-10295134-1.v1 and CISA’s...

This Week in Security News: DevOps Implementation Concerns and Malware Variants

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 most respondents to a Trend Micro survey shared their concern for the risks in implementing DevOps. Also, read on about how...

New Virus Decides If Your Computer Good for Mining or Ransomware

Security researchers have discovered an interesting piece of malware that infects systems with either a cryptocurrency miner or ransomware, depending upon their configurations to decide which of the two schemes could be more profitable. While ransomware is a type of malware that locks your comput...

Forever 21 Says PoS Systems Exposed Customer Data for 8 Months

Fashion retailer Forever 21 confirmed a breach made public in November resulted in the theft of credit card data belonging to an undisclosed number of customers. The company had stated that a lack of encryption used on some of its point-of-sales payment terminals could have resulted in unauthoriz...

FIN7 Group Uses JavaScript and Stealer DLL Variant in New Attacks

This post was authored by Michael Gorelik and Josh ReynoldsExecutive SummaryThroughout this blog post we will be detailing a newly discovered RTF document family that is being leveraged by the FIN7 group also known as the Carbanak gang which is a financially-motivated group targeting the financia...

New GameOver Zeus Botnet Malware Variant Surfaces

The GameOver Zeus takedown was trumpeted as a victory against cybercrime, and for all its success, even those involved understood it was likely a temporary win. Researchers at Seculert have spotted a new variant of GameOver Zeus that has spurned previous versions’ peer-to-peer communication...