Google Disrupts IPIDEA — One of the World's Largest Residential Proxy Networks

Google on Wednesday announced that it worked together with other partners to disrupt IPIDEA, which it described as one of the largest residential proxy networks in the world. To that end, the company said it took legal action to take down dozens of domains used to control devices and proxy traffi...

Chinese Threat Actors Exploit ToolShell SharePoint Flaw Weeks After Microsoft's July Patch

Threat actors with ties to China exploited the ToolShell security vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to breach a telecommunications company in the Middle East after it was publicly disclosed and patched in July 2025. Also targeted were government departments in an African country, as well as...

OpenAI Finds Growing Exploitation of AI Tools by Foreign Threat Groups

OpenAI's new report warns hackers are combining multiple AI tools for cyberattacks, scams, and influence ops linked to China, Russia, and North Korea...

FBI Warns of UNC6040 and UNC6395 Targeting Salesforce Platforms in Data Theft Attacks

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has issued a flash alert to release indicators of compromise IoCs associated with two cybercriminal groups tracked as UNC6040 and UNC6395 for orchestrating a string of data theft and extortion attacks. "Both groups have recently been observed targeting...

Exploit for Use After Free in Adobe Flash_Player

APTREPORT collected by @blackorbird https://x.com/blackorbird Interesting apt report & sample & malware & technology & intellegence collection APT Group for country Threat Actor Groups Tracked by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42...

Researchers Uncover Espionage Tactics of China-Based APT Groups in Southeast Asia

A suspected China-based threat actor has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting high-profile organizations in Southeast Asia since at least October 2023. The espionage campaign targeted organizations in various sectors spanning government ministries in two different countries, an air...

Hackers Leveraging Cloudflare Tunnels, DNS Fast-Flux to Hide GammaDrop Malware

The threat actor known as Gamaredon has been observed leveraging Cloudflare Tunnels as a tactic to conceal its staging infrastructure hosting a malware called GammaDrop. The activity is part of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian entities since at least early 2024 that's design...

The State of Ransomware

Palo Alto Networks published its semi-annual report on ransomware. From the Executive Summary: Unit 42 monitors ransomware and extortion leak sites closely to keep tabs on threat activity. We reviewed compromise announcements from 53 dedicated leak sites in the first half of 2024 and found 1,762...

Stories from the SOC Part 1: IDAT Loader to BruteRatel

Rapid7’s Managed Detection and Response MDR team continuously monitors our customers' environments, identifying emerging threats and developing new detections. In August 2023, Rapid7 identified a new malware loader named the IDAT Loader. Malware loaders are a type of malicious software designed t...

Why The External Attack Surface Matters: An analysis into APAC related threat activities

Co-authors are Robin Long and Raj Samani Considerable focus within the cybersecurity industry has been placed on the attack surface of organizations, giving rise to external attack surface management EASM technologies as a means to monitor said surface. It would appear a reasonable approach, on t...

4 Ways Hackers use Social Engineering to Bypass MFA

When it comes to access security, one recommendation stands out above the rest: multi-factor authentication MFA. With passwords alone being simple work for hackers, MFA provides an essential layer of protection against breaches. However, it's important to remember that MFA isn't foolproof. It can...

Bl00dy Ransomware Gang Strikes Education Sector with Critical PaperCut Vulnerability

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have warned of attacks carried out by a threat actor known as the Bl00dy Ransomware Gang that attempt to exploit vulnerable PaperCut servers against the education facilities sector in the country. The attacks took place in early May 2023, the Federal...

X-force - IBM Security Utilitary Library In Python. Search And Query All Sources: Threat_Activities And Groups, Malware_Analysis, Industries

IBM Security X-FORCE Exchange library in Python 3. Search: threatactivities, threatgroups, malwareanalysis, collector and industries. Install pip3 install XForce Use Using you APIKEY make a basic authentication. After make a base64 code → Key + : + Password: printf...

Microsoft Security Experts discuss evolving threats in roundtable chat

I don’t know about you, but we’re still catching our breath after 2022. Microsoft Security blocked more than 70 billion email and identity threats last year.1 In the same 12-month span, ransomware attacks impacted more than 200 large organizations in the United States alone, spanning government,...

Stegowiper - A Powerful And Flexible Tool To Apply Active Attacks For Disrupting Stegomalware

Over the last 10 years, many threat groups have employed stegomalware or other steganography-based techniques to attack organizations from all sectors and in all regions of the world. Some examples are: APT15/Vixen Panda, APT23/Tropic Trooper, APT29/Cozy Bear, APT32/OceanLotus, APT34/OilRig,...

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for Destructive Wipers

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for Destructive Wipers By Ayed Al Qartah · November 17, 2022 Modern cyber warfare involves the actions of a nation-state or their proxies organized crime and hacker groups to attack and attempt to damage other nations’ computers or information...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 25 – 31st July

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 462 7 4 52 22 64 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The Last week of July 2022 witnessed the discovery of 462 vulnerabilities out of which 7...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 18 – 24th July

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 497 11 2 Worldwide 6 33 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The third week of July 2022 witnessed the discovery of 497 vulnerabilities out of...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 11-17 July 2022

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 580 37 2 World-wide 11 61 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The second week of July 2022 witnessed the discovery of 580 vulnerabilities out ...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 27 June – 03 July 2022

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 436 2 2 55 15 30 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The last week of June 2022 witnessed the discovery of 436 vulnerabilities out of which 2...