17-Year-Old 'Mastermind', 2 Others Behind the Biggest Twitter Hack Arrested

A 17-year-old teen and two other 19 and 22-year-old individuals have reportedly been arrested for being the alleged mastermind behind the recent Twitter hack that simultaneously targeted several high-profile accounts within minutes as part of a massive bitcoin scam. According to the U.S. Departme...

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation, and Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server packages lies in information representation errors in the user interface, which allows attackers to execute cross-site scripting attacks.

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation, and Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server relates to information representation errors in the user interface. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

Chinese Hackers Escalate Attacks Against India and Hong Kong Amid Tensions

An emerging threat actor out of China has been traced to a new hacking campaign aimed at government agencies in India and residents of Hong Kong intending to steal sensitive information, cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes revealed in the latest report shared with The Hacker News. The attacks were...

Chinese APT group targets India and Hong Kong using new variant of MgBot malware

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi and Jérôme Segura On July 2, we found an archive file with an embedded document pretending to be from the government of India. This file used template injection to drop a malicious template which loaded a variant of Cobalt Strike. One day later, the sam...

Iranian Hackers Accidentally Exposed Their Training Videos (40 GB) Online

An OPSEC error by an Iranian threat actor has laid bare the inner workings of the hacking group by providing a rare insight into the "behind-the-scenes look into their methods." IBM's X-Force Incident Response Intelligence Services IRIS got hold of nearly five hours worth of video recordings of t...

The vulnerability in the Microsoft Edge web browser involves the redirection of URLs to insecure websites, allowing attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks.

The vulnerability in the Microsoft Edge web browser is related to the redirection of URLs to insecure websites. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

Hakbit Ransomware Attack Uses GuLoader, Malicious Microsoft Excel Attachments

A ransomware campaign, dubbed Hakbit, is targeting mid-level employees across Austria, Switzerland and Germany with malicious Excel attachments delivered via the popular email provider GMX. The spear-phishing based campaign is low volume and so far targeted the pharmaceutical, legal, financial,...

LinkedIn 'Job Offers' Targeted Aerospace, Military Firms With Malware

Attackers are impersonating human resource employees from Collins Aerospace and General Dynamics in a spear-phishing campaign leveraging LinkedIn’s messaging service. Targets are sent phony job offers that include malicious documents designed to fetch data-exfiltrating malware. The spear-phishing...

Knoxville Ransomware Attack Leads to IT Network Shutdown

The city of Knoxville, Tenn. is reeling from a ransomware attack that knocked the city’s network offline and prevented police officers from responding to non-life-threatening traffic crashes. The incident occurred Wednesday and shuttered systems until Thursday. Also impacted was the city’s intern...

Microsoft Outlook Users Targeted By Gamaredon's New VBA Macro

The Gamaredon threat group has given its post-compromise toolset a facelift with the addition of a new Visual Basic for Applications VBA macro. The VBA macro leverages compromised victims’ Microsoft Outlook email accounts to send spear-phishing emails to their contacts – rapidly widening the...

Espionage Group Hits U.S. Utilities with Sophisticated Spy Tool

The APT known as TA410 has added a modular remote-access trojan RAT to its espionage arsenal, deployed against Windows targets in the United States’ utilities sector. According to researchers at Proofpoint, the RAT, called FlowCloud, can access installed applications and control the keyboard,...

New LNK attack tied to Higaisa APT discovered

This post was authored by Hossein Jazi and Jérôme Segura On May 29th, we identified an attack that we believe is part of a new campaign from an Advanced Persistent Threat actor known as Higaisa. The Higaisa APT is believed to be tied to the Korean peninsula, and was first disclosed by Tencent...

ZLoader-Laced Emails Masquerade As CVs From Job-Seekers

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the massive uptick in unemployment across the U.S. in a recent spear-phishing campaign, which purports to be CVs sent from job-seekers – but actually spreads banking credential-stealing malware. Researchers recently uncovered emails that distributed maliciou...

The vulnerability of Power BI report servers, related to errors in information presentation on the user interface, allows attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks.

The vulnerability of the Power BI report server is related to errors in the way information is presented by the user interface. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to carry out spear-phishing attacks remotely...

‘Coronavirus Report’ Emails Spread NetSupport RAT, Microsoft Warns

A recent spear-phishing campaign has been spotted spreading a weaponized NetSupport Manager remote access tool RAT, which is a legitimate tool used for troubleshooting and tech support. Attackers use the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as a lure, as well as malicious Excel documents, to convince...

Iranian APT Group Targets Governments in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia

Today, cybersecurity researchers shed light on an Iranian cyber espionage campaign directed against critical infrastructures in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bitdefender said the intelligence-gathering operations were conducted by Chafer APT also known as APT39 or Remix Kitten, a threat actor known fo...

Iranian APT Group Targets Governments in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia

Today, cybersecurity researchers shed light on an Iranian cyber espionage campaign directed against critical infrastructures in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bitdefender said the intelligence-gathering operations were conducted by Chafer APT also known as APT39 or Remix Kitten, a threat actor known fo...

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Enterprise Server packages, related to insufficient validation of input data, allows attackers to execute spear-phishing attacks.

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Enterprise Server lies in insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform spear-phishing attacks using a specially crafted request sent to the vulnerable SharePoint server...

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and SharePoint Enterprise Server lies in insufficient validation of input fields, allowing attackers to execute spear-phishing attacks.

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and SharePoint Enterprise Server relates to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform spear-phishing attacks using a specially created request sent to the...

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and SharePoint Enterprise Server lies in insufficient validation of input data, allowing attackers to execute spear-phishing attacks.

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and SharePoint Enterprise Server relates to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform spear-phishing attacks using a specially created request sent to the...