WINTAPIX Kernel Driver Targeting Middle Eastern Nations

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The WINTAPIX driver, protected by VMProtect, targets Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, possibly linked to Iranian threat actors exploiting Exchange servers for malware deployment. To receive real-ti...

New WinTapix.sys Malware Engages in Multi-Stage Attack Across Middle East

An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging a malicious Windows kernel driver in attacks likely targeting the Middle East since at least May 2020. Fortinet Fortiguard Labs, which dubbed the artifact WINTAPIX WinTapix.sys, attributed the malware with low confidence to an Iranian threat...

New WinTapix.sys Malware Engages in Multi-Stage Attack Across Middle East

An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging a malicious Windows kernel driver in attacks likely targeting the Middle East since at least May 2020. Fortinet Fortiguard Labs, which dubbed the artifact WINTAPIX WinTapix.sys, attributed the malware with low confidence to an Iranian threat...

Israeli Spyware Vendor QuaDream to Shut Down Following Citizen Lab and Microsoft Expose

Israeli spyware vendor QuaDream is allegedly shutting down its operations in the coming days, less than a week after its hacking toolset was exposed by Citizen Lab and Microsoft. The development was reported by the Israeli business newspaper Calcalist, citing unnamed sources, adding the company...

GuLoader Malware Using Malicious NSIS Executables to Target E-Commerce Industry

E-commerce industries in South Korea and the U.S. are at the receiving end of an ongoing GuLoader malware campaign, cybersecurity firm Trellix disclosed late last month. The malspam activity is notable for transitioning away from malware-laced Microsoft Word documents to NSIS executable files for...

Researchers Uncover Connection b/w Moses Staff and Emerging Abraham's Ax Hacktivists Group

New research has linked the operations of a politically motivated hacktivist group known as Moses Staff to another nascent threat actor named Abraham's Ax that emerged in November 2022. This is based on "several commonalities across the iconography, videography, and leak sites used by the groups,...

Researchers Uncover Connection b/w Moses Staff and Emerging Abraham's Ax Hacktivists Group

New research has linked the operations of a politically motivated hacktivist group known as Moses Staff to another nascent threat actor named Abraham's Ax that emerged in November 2022. This is based on "several commonalities across the iconography, videography, and leak sites used by the groups,...

Ex-Twitter employee Gets 3.5 Years Jail for Spying on Behalf of Saudi Arabia

A former Twitter employee who was found guilty of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia by sharing data pertaining to specific individuals has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison. Ahmad Abouammo, 45, was convicted earlier this August on various criminal counts, including money launderin...

Hack-for-Hire Group Targets Travel and Financial Entities with New Janicab Malware Variant

Travel agencies have emerged as the target of a hack-for-hire group dubbed Evilnum as part of a broader campaign aimed at legal and financial investment institutions in the Middle East and Europe. The attacks, which took place during 2020 and 2021 and likely went as far back as 2015, involved a...

North Korean Hackers Targeting Europe and Latin America with Updated DTrack Backdoor

Hackers tied to the North Korean government have been observed using an updated version of a backdoor known as Dtrack targeting a wide range of industries in Germany, Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the U.S. "Dtrack allows criminals to upload, download, start ...

New Golang-based 'Agenda Ransomware' Can Be Customized For Each Victim

A new ransomware strain written in Golang dubbed "Agenda" has been spotted in the wild, targeting healthcare and education entities in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Thailand. "Agenda can reboot systems in safe mode, attempts to stop many server-specific processes and services, and ha...

Former Twitter Employee Found Guilty of Spying for Saudi Arabia

A former Twitter employee has been pronounced guilty for his role in digging up private information pertaining to certain Twitter users and turning over that data to Saudi Arabia. Ahmad Abouammo, 44, was convicted by a jury after a two-week trial in San Francisco federal court, Bloomberg reported...

Haraj Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A security vulnerability exists in Haraj v3.7, a buying and selling platform from Haraj Saudi Arabia, due to a cross-site scripting issue in the comments section of advertisements. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary Web script or HTML via a crafted POST request...

Haraj Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-66491)

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Haraj v3.7, a buying and selling platform from Haraj Saudi Arabia. The vulnerability stems from a stored cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability contained in the Post Ads component. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct cross-site...

Haraj has cross-site scripting vulnerability

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Haraj v3.7, a buying and selling platform from Haraj Saudi Arabia. The vulnerability stems from a lack of data validation filtering of user-supplied data and output in some DM components. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute...

Magic Hound Exploiting Old Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell Vulnerabilities

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here APT35 aka Magic Hound, an Iranian-backed threat group, has begun using Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities as an initial attack vector and to execute code through multiple web shells. The group has primarily targeted...

AvosLocker Ransomware group has targeted 50+ Organizations Worldwide

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released threat advisories on AvosLocker Ransomware. It is a Ransomware as a Service RaaS affiliate-based group that has targeted 50+...

Beware of malware offering “Warm greetings from Saudi Aramco”

Recently, the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence Team found a Formbook campaign targeting oil and gas companies. The campaign they discovered was delivered by a targeted email that contained two attachments, one is a pdf file and the other an Excel document. Formbook The Formbook malware is an...

More on NSO Group and Cytrox: Two Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturers

Citizen Lab published another report on the spyware used against two Egyptian nationals. One was hacked by NSO Groups Pegasus spyware. The other was hacked both by Pegasus and by the spyware from another cyberweapons arms manufacturer: Cytrox. We havent heard a lot about Cytrox and its Predator...

saudi-visa.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2276718

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...