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...

CVE-2023-36884

Windows Search Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Recent assessments: cbeek-r7 at August 24, 2023 1:46pm UTC reported: CVE-2023-36884 is a fixed vulnerability that permitted remote code execution. Attackers could manipulate Microsoft Office files to bypass the Mark of the Web MoTW security...

Russian Dark Net Markets Dominate the Global Illicit Drug Trade: Report

By Habiba Rashid The dark net, the illegal drugs, and what's next. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Dark Net Markets Dominate the Global Illicit Drug Trade: Report...

russian-traditions.ru Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-3490183

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

DDoSia Attack Tool Evolves with Encryption, Targeting Multiple Sectors

The threat actors behind the DDoSia attack tool have come up with a new version that incorporates a new mechanism to retrieve the list of targets to be bombarded with junk HTTP requests in an attempt to bring them down. The updated variant, written in Golang, "implements an additional security...

US Supreme Court Hands Cyberstalkers a First Amendment Victory

Plus: Hackers knock out Russian military satellite communications, a spyware maker gets breached, and the SEC targets a victim company's CISO...

Newly Uncovered ThirdEye Windows-Based Malware Steals Sensitive Data

A previously undocumented Windows-based information stealer called ThirdEye has been discovered in the wild with capabilities to harvest sensitive data from infected hosts. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, which made the discovery, said it found the malware in an executable that masqueraded as a PDF fil...

Newly Uncovered ThirdEye Windows-Based Malware Steals Sensitive Data

A previously undocumented Windows-based information stealer called ThirdEye has been discovered in the wild with capabilities to harvest sensitive data from infected hosts. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, which made the discovery, said it found the malware in an executable that masqueraded as a PDF fil...

Black Basta ransomware

What is Black Basta ransomware? Black Basta is a threat group that provides ransomware-as-a-service RaaS. The service is maintained by dedicated developers and is a highly efficient and professionally run operation; theres a TOR website that provides a victim login portal, a chat room, and a wall...

Microsoft Warns of Widescale Credential Stealing Attacks by Russian Hackers

Microsoft has disclosed that it's detected a spike in credential-stealing attacks conducted by the Russian state-affiliated hacker group known as Midnight Blizzard. The intrusions, which make use of residential proxy services to obfuscate the source IP address of the attacks, target governments, ...