Parallax RAT Targeting Cryptocurrency Firms with Sophisticated Injection Techniques

Cryptocurrency companies are being targeted as part of a new campaign that delivers a remote access trojan called Parallax RAT. The malware "uses injection techniques to hide within legitimate processes, making it difficult to detect," Uptycs said in a new report. "Once it has been successfully...

APT-C-36 Strikes Again: Blind Eagle Hackers Target Key Industries in Colombia

The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been linked to a new campaign targeting various key industries in Colombia. The activity, which was detected by the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team on February 20, 2023, is also said to encompass Ecuador, Chile, and Spain, suggesting a slow...

PlugX Trojan Disguised as Legitimate Windows Debugger Tool in Latest Attacks

The PlugX remote access trojan has been observed masquerading as an open source Windows debugger tool called x64dbg in an attempt to circumvent security protections and gain control of a target system. "This file is a legitimate open-source debugger tool for Windows that is generally used to...

PlugX Trojan Disguised as Legitimate Windows Debugger Tool in Latest Attacks

The PlugX remote access trojan has been observed masquerading as an open source Windows debugger tool called x64dbg in an attempt to circumvent security protections and gain control of a target system. "This file is a legitimate open-source debugger tool for Windows that is generally used to...

Cryptojackers Deploy Trojanized Mac Apps on The Pirate Bay

By Deeba Ahmed All malicious apps for macOS identified by researchers were uploaded to The Pirate Bay by a user called "wtfisthat34698409672." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cryptojackers Deploy Trojanized Mac Apps on The Pirate Bay...

Threat Round up for February 17 to February 24

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between Feb. 17 and Feb. 24. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Investigating the PlugX Trojan Disguised as a Legitimate Windows Debugger Tool

Trend Micro’s Managed Extended Detection and Response MxDR team discovered that a file called x32dbg.exe was used to sideload a malicious DLL we identified as a variant of PlugX...

Hackers Using Trojanized macOS Apps to Deploy Evasive Cryptocurrency Mining Malware

Trojanized versions of legitimate applications are being used to deploy evasive cryptocurrency mining malware on macOS systems. Jamf Threat Labs, which made the discovery, said the XMRig coin miner was executed by means of an unauthorized modification in Final Cut Pro, a video editing software fr...

K43546166: glibc vulnerability CVE-2017-16997

Security Advisory Description elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged setuid or ATSECURE program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working director...

K1952: Trojan Horse OpenSSH Distribution - CA-2002-24

Security Advisory Description Note : Versions that are not listed in this article have not been evaluated for vulnerability to this security advisory. For information about the F5 security policy regarding evaluating older and unsupported versions of F5 products, refer to K4602: Overview of the F...

K74013101: Binutils vulnerability CVE-2021-42574

Security Advisory Description An issue was discovered in the Bidirectional Algorithm in the Unicode Specification through 14.0. It permits the visual reordering of characters via control sequences, which can be used to craft source code that renders different logic than the logical ordering of...

K22494544: SNMP Incorrect Access Control vulnerability CVE-2017-5135

Security Advisory Description Certain Technicolor devices have an SNMP access-control bypass, possibly involving an ISP customization in some cases. The Technicolor formerly Cisco DPC3928SL with firmware D3928SL-P15-13-A386-c3420r55105-160127a could be reached by any SNMP community string from th...

K39909763: Perl vulnerability CVE-2016-1238

Security Advisory Description 1 cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, 2 cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, 3 cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, 4 cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, 5 cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, 6 cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, 7 cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, 8 cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, 9 cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, 10...

Threat Round up for February 10 to February 17

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between Feb. 10 and Feb. 17. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Researchers Link SideWinder Group to Dozens of Targeted Attacks in Multiple Countries

The prolific SideWinder group has been attributed as the nation-state actor behind attempted attacks against 61 entities in Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka between June and November 2021. Targets included government, military, law enforcement, banks, and other organizations,...

Hackers Using Google Ads to Spread FatalRAT Malware Disguised as Popular Apps

Chinese-speaking individuals in Southeast and East Asia are the targets of a new rogue Google Ads campaign that delivers remote access trojans such as FatalRAT to compromised machines. The attacks involve purchasing ad slots to appear in Google search results and direct users looking for popular...

Fake Hogwarts Legacy cracks lead to adware, scams

Hogwarts Legacy, the much-anticipated Harry Potter video game, has finally landed on major gaming platforms. But, as with all games like this, it comes with a steep price tag, so it's no surprise to suddenly see websites peddling "cracked" versions of the game for free. These sites are easily...

SUSE CVE-2008-3277

Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Red Hat build script for the ibmssh executable in ibutils packages before ibutils-1.5.7-2.el6 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 6 and ibutils-1.2-11.2.el5 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan Horse...

SUSE CVE-2008-3440

Sun Java 1.6.003 and earlier versions, and possibly later versions, does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning...

SUSE CVE-2008-3437

OpenOffice.org OOo before 2.1.0 does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning...