North Korean Threat Actors Deploy COVERTCATCH Malware via LinkedIn Job Scams

Threat actors affiliated with North Korea have been observed leveraging LinkedIn as a way to target developers as part of a fake job recruiting operation. These attacks employ coding tests as a common initial infection vector, Google-owned Mandiant said in a new report about threats faced by the...

CISA Warns of 5 Actively Exploited Security Flaws: Urgent Action Required

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Friday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. This includes three high-severity flaws in the Veritas Backup Exec Agent software...

New Malware Families Found Targeting VMware ESXi Hypervisors

Threat actors have been found deploying never-before-seen post-compromise implants in VMware's virtualization software to seize control of infected systems and evade detection. Google's Mandiant threat intelligence division referred to it as a "novel malware ecosystem" that impacts VMware ESXi,...

New Sophisticated Malware

Mandiant is reporting on a new botnet. The group, which security firm Mandiant is calling UNC3524, has spent the past 18 months burrowing into victims networks with unusual stealth. In cases where the group is ejected, it wastes no time reinfecting the victim environment and picking up where thin...

M-Trends Asia Pacific: Organizations Must Improve at Detecting and Responding to Breaches

Since 2010, Mandiant, a FireEye company, has presented trends, statistics and case studies of some of the largest and most sophisticated cyber attacks. In February 2016, we released our annual global M-Trends® report based on data from the breaches we responded to in 2015. Now, we are releasing...

EMEA Organizations Must Rise to the Challenge of Stopping Advanced Threats

Since 2010, Mandiant, a FireEye company, has presented trends, statistics and case studies of cyber attacks involving advanced threat actors. As part of its many global investigations in 2015, Mandiant responded to several breaches in Europe, Middle East and Africa EMEA. Throughout the year we...

Spear Phishing Campaigns Use Fake Mandiant APT1 Report as Lure

People looking to download and read the Mandiant report on Chinese government attacks on U.S. infrastructure should look carefully at the name of the file before opening it. Researchers say that there are at least two different spear-phishing attacks going on right now that are using rigged copie...

Markey: GRID Act Passage Long Overdue

Representative Ed Markey D-MA is urging the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Fred Upton R-MI, to take immediate action toward passing the Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense GRID Act, which Markey calls a bipartisan bill aimed at hardening the nation’s electrical gr...

Avoid The Attack Attribution Distraction

Plenty has been written this month about attack attribution, but, really, if your network is under siege, how often does the “who” matter as much as the “how,” “what,” and “where”? It seems that knowing who the actor is behind a network intrusion matters little to a bank, restaurant or retail...