Outlook Vulnerability Exploited by Russian Hackers Since April 2022

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook allowed an unknown Russian threat actor to gain access to a victims NTLM hash through a specially crafted email. To receive real-time threat advisories, please follow...

US Marshals Service Data Sold on Russian Hacker Forum

By Waqas The hacker is selling 350 GB worth of data for $150,000 supervised by the forum’s guarantor. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US Marshals Service Data Sold on Russian Hacker Forum...

Chinese and Russian Hackers Using SILKLOADER Malware to Evade Detection

Threat activity clusters affiliated with the Chinese and Russian cybercriminal ecosystems have been observed using a new piece of malware that's designed to load Cobalt Strike onto infected machines. Dubbed SILKLOADER by Finnish cybersecurity company WithSecure, the malware leverages DLL...

Chinese and Russian Hackers Using SILKLOADER Malware to Evade Detection

Threat activity clusters affiliated with the Chinese and Russian cybercriminal ecosystems have been observed using a new piece of malware that's designed to load Cobalt Strike onto infected machines. Dubbed SILKLOADER by Finnish cybersecurity company WithSecure, the malware leverages DLL...

Hackers threaten to leak STALKER 2 assets if devs don’t heed demands

Ukrainian game developer GSC Game World has announced it was breached by Russian hacktivists who stole assets related to the much-awaited game STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl. A message from GSC Game World team pic.twitter.com/rqRM0tFZmO -- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. OFFICIAL @stalkerthegame March 12, 2023...

Threat Advisory: Microsoft Outlook privilege escalation vulnerability being exploited in the wild

Update March 21, 2023: To aid defenders trying to detect and mitigate this vulnerability, we are providing a couple of additional resources. First, we are providing a ClamAV signature that detects this threat -- the rule can be found on our GitHub here and can be leveraged anywhere ClamAV...

The Prolificacy of LockBit Ransomware

Today, the LockBit ransomware is the most active and successful cybercrime organization in the world. Attributed to a Russian Threat Actor, LockBit has stepped out from the shadows of the Conti ransomware group, who were disbanded in early 2022. LockBit ransomware was first discovered in Septembe...

Talos uncovers espionage campaigns targeting CIS countries, embassies and EU health care agency

Cisco Talos has identified a new threat actor, which we are naming "YoroTrooper," that has been running several successful espionage campaigns since at least June 2022. YoroTroopers main targets are government or energy organizations in Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and other Commonwealth of...

PT-2023-1662

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Outlook affected versions not specified Description An elevation of privilege issue exists where a remote attacker can gain higher privileges by sending a specially crafted email. The flaw does not require user interaction, such as...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 6 March to 12 March 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Last week, HiveForce Labs discovered three threat actors. One of them is a Russian group called TA499, which has a history of conducting different cyberattacks such as...

Advanced Persistent Threat Groups Behind DDoS Attacks on Danish Hospitals

On Sunday 26 February the websites of several Danish hospitals were taken offline after being hit by Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks claimed by a group calling themselves ‘Anonymous Sudan’. According to reports on Twitter patient care was unaffected by the attacks and the sites were ba...

The Sketchy Plan to Build a Russian Android Phone

Amid isolating sanctions, a Russian tech giant plans to launch new Android phones and tablets. But experts are skeptical the company can pull it off...

Russian Malware Developer Behind NLBrute Extradited to US

By Habiba Rashid Dairy Pankov, a.k.a. dpxaker, was accused of developing brute force and malicious software, NLBrute. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Malware Developer Behind NLBrute Extradited to US...

Hackers Advertising New Info-Stealing Malware on Dark Web

By Deeba Ahmed Dubbed "Stealc" by researchers, the malware is also being promoted on several Russian language hacker and cybercrime forums on the clear net, in addition to the dark web. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Advertising New Info-Stealing Malware on Dark ...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 13 February to 19 February 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here HiveForce Labs identified seven active actors over the past week. There were three prominent Russian actors, namely TA505, Nodaria, and KillNet. Additionally, three Chinese...

Google Reveals Alarming Surge in Russian Cyber Attacks Against Ukraine

Russia's cyber attacks against Ukraine surged by 250% in 2022 when compared to two years ago, Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG and Mandiant disclosed in a new joint report. The targeting, which coincided and has since persisted following the country's military invasion of Ukraine in February...

Google Reveals Alarming Surge in Russian Cyber Attacks Against Ukraine

Russia's cyber attacks against Ukraine surged by 250% in 2022 when compared to two years ago, Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG and Mandiant disclosed in a new joint report. The targeting, which coincided and has since persisted following the country's military invasion of Ukraine in February...

Spam and phishing in 2022

Figures of the year In 2022: 48.63% of all emails around the world and 52.78% of all emails in the Russian segment of the internet were spam As much as 29.82% of all spam emails originated in Russia Kaspersky Mail Anti-Virus blocked 166,187,118 malicious email attachments Our Anti-Phishing system...

TrickBot gang members sanctioned after pandemic ransomware attacks

In a collaborative partnership, officials in the United States and the United Kingdom unmasked and imposed financial sanctions against seven members of the notorious Russian gang TrickBot alias "TrickLoader", a mainstream banking Trojan turned malware-as-a-service MaaS platform for other criminal...

Massive AdSense Fraud Campaign Uncovered - 10,000+ WordPress Sites Infected

The threat actors behind the black hat redirect malware campaign have scaled up their campaign to use more than 70 bogus domains mimicking URL shorteners and infect over 10,800 websites. "The main objective is still ad fraud by artificially increasing traffic to pages which contain the AdSense ID...