CISA and International Partners Release Malware Analysis Report on Infamous Chisel Mobile Malware

Today, the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-UK, the United States’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, National Security Agency NSA, and Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, New Zealand’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-NZ, the Canadian Centre for Cyber...

The Weird, Big-Money World of Cybercrime Writing Contests

The competitions, which are held on Russian-language cybercrime forums, offer prize money of up to $80,000 for the winners...

Copy(CTRL+C) and Paste (CTRL+V) is not working on MAC when using Russian language

CopyCTRL+C and Paste CTRL+V is not working on MAC when using the Russian language...

Russian Hackers Employ Telekopye Toolkit in Broad Phishing Attacks

By Deeba Ahmed Meet Telekopye, a new phishing toolkit that uses a Telegram bot to carry out its operations. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Hackers Employ Telekopye Toolkit in Broad Phishing Attacks...

Russian Hackers Use Zulip Chat App for Covert C&C in Diplomatic Phishing Attacks

An ongoing campaign targeting ministries of foreign affairs of NATO-aligned countries points to the involvement of Russian threat actors. The phishing attacks feature PDF documents with diplomatic lures, some of which are disguised as coming from Germany, to deliver a variant of a malware called...

Ongoing Xurum Attacks on E-commerce Sites Exploiting Critical Magento 2 Vulnerability

E-commerce sites using Adobe's Magento 2 software are the target of an ongoing campaign that has been active since at least January 2023. The attacks, dubbed Xurum by Akamai, leverage a now-patched critical security flaw CVE-2022-24086, CVSS score: 9.8 in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source...

A New Attack Reveals Everything You Type With 95 Percent Accuracy

A pair of major data breaches rock the UK, North Korea hacks a Russian missile maker, and Microsoft’s Chinese Outlook breach sparks new problems...

New SystemBC Malware Variant Targets Southern African Power Company

An unknown threat actor has been linked to a cyber attack on a power generation company in southern Africa with a new variant of the SystemBC malware called DroxiDat as a precursor to a suspected ransomware attack. "The proxy-capable backdoor was deployed alongside Cobalt Strike Beacons in a sout...

North Korean Hackers Targets Russian Missile Engineering Firm

Two different North Korean nation-state actors have been linked to a cyber intrusion against NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a major Russian missile engineering company. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne said it identified "two instances of North Korea related compromise of sensitive internal IT...

Elite North Korean Hackers Breach Russian Missile Developer

By Waqas North Korean hackers from OpenCarrot and Lazarus breached NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a major Russian missile developer, for at least five months last year. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Elite North Korean Hackers Breach Russian Missile Developer...

Behind the Scenes of a Tailor-Made Massive Phishing Campaign

A global phishing campaign caught our attention after one of our colleagues was targeted by, and nearly fell victim, to a social engineering attack. The campaign involved more than 800 different scam domains and impersonated around 340 legitimate companies all over the world – including well-know...

Microsoft Teams used in phishing campaign to bypass multi-factor authentication

Attackers believed to have ties to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service SVR are using Microsoft Teams chats as credential theft phishing lures. Microsoft Threat Intelligence has posted details about the perceived attacks targeted at fewer than 40 unique global organizations. The targeted...

Russian Midnight Blizzard Hackers Hit MS Teams in Precision Attack

By Waqas The group of Russian hackers involved in this attack is Midnight Blizzard aka NOBELIUM. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Midnight Blizzard Hackers Hit MS Teams in Precision Attack...

Microsoft Exposes Russian Hackers' Sneaky Phishing Tactics via Microsoft Teams Chats

Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that it identified a set of highly targeted social engineering attacks mounted by a Russian nation-state threat actor using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats. The tech giant attributed the attacks to a group it tracks as Midnight Blizza...

Russian Cyber Adversary BlueCharlie Alters Infrastructure in Response to Disclosures

A Russia-nexus adversary has been linked to 94 new domains starting March 2023, suggesting that the group is actively modifying its infrastructure in response to public disclosures about its activities. Cybersecurity firm Recorded Future linked the revamped infrastructure to a threat actor it...

Turla Exploits Ukraine’s Defense Sector with DeliveryCheck Backdoor

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary DeliveryCheck, a .NET-based backdoor, targets Ukraines defense sector, attributed to Russian actor Turla; it aims to exfiltrate Signal app data. Notably, it breaches Microsoft Exchange servers using...

Turla's New DeliveryCheck Backdoor Breaches Ukrainian Defense Sector

The defense sector in Ukraine and Eastern Europe has been targeted by a novel .NET-based backdoor called DeliveryCheck aka CAPIBAR or GAMEDAY that's capable of delivering next-stage payloads. The Microsoft threat intelligence team, in collaboration with the Computer Emergency Response Team of...

Storm-0978 actively exploited the unpatched Office zero-day

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Storm-0978 is a Russian cybercriminal group that specializes in executing sophisticated phishing campaigns. Storm-0978 was found to be engaged in a new wave of attacks, leveraging the exploitation of...

Microsoft Releases Patches for 132 Vulnerabilities, Including 6 Under Active Attack

Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to address a total of 132 new security flaws spanning its software, including six zero-day flaws that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 132 vulnerabilities, nine are rated Critical, 122 are rated Important in severity, and one has been...

Apple & Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Edition

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to quash 130 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and related software, including at least five flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. Meanwhile, Apple customers have their own zero-day woes again this month: On Monday, Apple...