North Korean Hackers Targeting Defense Firms with ThreatNeedle Malware

A prolific North Korean state-sponsored hacking group has been tied to a new ongoing espionage campaign aimed at exfiltrating sensitive information from organizations in the defense industry. Attributing the attacks with high confidence to the Lazarus Group, the new findings from Kaspersky signal...

Lazarus targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle

Lazarus targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle PDF We named Lazarus the most active group of 2020. Weve observed numerous activities by this notorious APT group targeting various industries. The group has changed target depending on the primary objective. Google TAG has recently published a...

Tax Season Ushers in Quickbooks Data-Theft Spike

Cybercriminals are ready for tax season with new malware designed to exfiltrate Quickbooks data and post it on the internet, according to a new report from ThreatLocker. Attackers use email to deliver the malware, which the ThreatLocker’s CEO Danny Jenkins told Threatpost is a simple, 15-line pie...

Experts Warns of Notable Increase in QuickBooks Data Files Theft Attacks

New research has uncovered a significant increase in QuickBooks file data theft using social engineering tricks to deliver malware and exploit the accounting software. "A majority of the time, the attack involves basic malware that is often signed, making it hard to detect using antivirus or othe...

Microsoft Exchange Server Information Disclosure

The vulnerability of Microsoft Exchange Server is related to the false representation of information by the user interface. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

Microsoft Exchange Server Spoofing

The vulnerability of Microsoft Exchange Server servers is related to errors in information representation by the user interface. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

U.S. Accuses DPRK Hackers of Stealing Millions

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted three North Korean computer programmers for their alleged participation in widespread, destructive cyberattacks as part of the advanced persistent threat APT known as Lazarus Group. The indictment broadens the scope of crimes that the DoJ has linked to...

Masslogger Swipes Outlook, Chrome Credentials

Cybercriminals are targeting Windows users with a new variant of the Masslogger trojan, which is spyware designed to swipe victims’ credentials from Microsoft Outlook, Google Chrome and various instant-messenger accounts. Researchers uncovered the campaign targeting users in Italy, Latvia and...

Valentine’s Day Malware Attack Mimics Flower Store

With Valentine’s Day approaching this weekend, several people have received “recent order” email confirmations for flowers or lingerie. These emails are actually part of a spear-phishing attack, which ultimately leads recipients to a malicious document that executes the BazaLoader malware. The...

Microsoft SharePoint Server Spoofing

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation, and Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server is related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

Criminal, Domestic Violence Case Info Exposed in Cook County Leak

A non-password protected database, belonging to a county in Illinois, exposed 323,000 court records for at least four months, according to researchers. The database exposed the names of various people involved in sensitive criminal, domestic-abuse or child-custody court cases. Researchers from...

Microsoft SharePoint Server Spoofing

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation, and Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server stems from insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to carry out spear-phishing attacks using a specially crafted...

Mozilla Firefox Spear Phishing

The vulnerability of the Mozilla Firefox browser is related to the lack of a mechanism for checking the input data in the address bar. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

Mozilla Firefox Input Validation Spear Phishing

The vulnerability of the Mozilla Firefox browser is related to a lack of mechanism for checking the input character “i”. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

Firefox Thunderbird Spear Phishing

The vulnerability of Firefox browsers, Firefox ESR, and the email client Thunderbird is related to the mixing of symbols from the “Canadian Syllabics” block with symbols from other blocks. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spam attacks...

Firefox ESR Thunderbird Spear Phishing

The vulnerabilities of Firefox browsers, Firefox ESR, and the email client Thunderbird are related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting these vulnerabilities can allow attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

Microsoft SharePoint Server

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server, and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation packages exists due to insufficient verification of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

APT Horoscope

This delightful essay matches APT hacker groups up with astrological signs. This is me: Capricorn is renowned for its discipline, skilled navigation, and steadfastness. Just like Capricorn, Helix Kitten also known as APT 35 or OilRig is a skilled navigator of vast online networks, maneuvering...

ALERT: North Korean hackers targeting South Korea with RokRat Trojan

A North Korean hacking group has been found deploying the RokRat Trojan in a new spear-phishing campaign targeting the South Korean government. Attributing the attack to APT37 aka Starcruft, Ricochet Chollima, or Reaper, Malwarebytes said it identified a malicious document last December that, whe...

ALERT: North Korean hackers targeting South Korea with RokRat Trojan

A North Korean hacking group has been found deploying the RokRat Trojan in a new spear-phishing campaign targeting the South Korean government. Attributing the attack to APT37 aka Starcruft, Ricochet Chollima, or Reaper, Malwarebytes said it identified a malicious document last December that, whe...