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China-Linked Flax Typhoon Cyber Espionage Targets Taiwan's Key Sectors
A nation-state activity group originating from China has been linked to cyber attacks on dozens of organizations in Taiwan as part of a suspected espionage campaign. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team is tracking the activity under the name Flax Typhoon, which is also known as Ethereal Panda...
Urgent FBI Warning: Barracuda Email Gateways Vulnerable Despite Recent Patches
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is warning that Barracuda Networks Email Security Gateway ESG appliances patched against a recently disclosed critical flaw continue to be at risk of potential compromise from suspected Chinese hacking groups. It also deemed the fixes as "ineffective"...
Lazarus Group Exploits Critical Zoho ManageEngine Flaw to Deploy Stealthy QuiteRAT Malware
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been observed exploiting a now-patched critical security flaw impacting Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus to distribute a remote access trojan called such as QuiteRAT. Targets include internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare...
New Telegram Bot "Telekopye" Powering Large-scale Phishing Scams from Russia
A new financially motivated operation is leveraging a malicious Telegram bot to help threat actors scam their victims. Dubbed Telekopye, a portmanteau of Telegram and kopye meaning "spear" in Russian, the toolkit functions as an automated means to create a phishing web page from a premade templat...
The Hidden Dangers of Public Wi-Fi
Public Wi-Fi, which has long since become the norm, poses threats to not only individual users but also businesses. With the rise of remote work, people can now work from virtually anywhere: a cafe close to home, a hotel in a different city, or even while waiting for a plane at the airport. Next,...
New "Whiffy Recon" Malware Triangulates Infected Device Location via Wi-Fi Every Minute
The SmokeLoader malware is being used to deliver a new Wi-Fi scanning malware strain called Whiffy Recon on compromised Windows machines. "The new malware strain has only one operation. Every 60 seconds it triangulates the infected systems' positions by scanning nearby Wi-Fi access points as a da...
WinRAR Security Flaw Exploited in Zero-Day Attacks to Target Traders
A recently patched security flaw in the popular WinRAR archiving software has been exploited as a zero-day since April 2023, new findings from Group-IB reveal. The vulnerability, cataloged as CVE-2023-38831, allows threat actors to spoof file extensions, thereby making it possible to launch...
Thousands of Unpatched Openfire XMPP Servers Still Exposed to High-Severity Flaw
Thousands of Openfire XMPP servers are unpatched against a recently disclosed high-severity flaw and are susceptible to a new exploit, according to a new report from VulnCheck. Tracked as CVE-2023-32315 CVSS score: 7.5, the vulnerability relates to a path traversal vulnerability in Openfire's...
Tornado Cash Founders Charged in Billion-Dollar Crypto Laundering Scandal
The U.S. Justice Department DoJ on Wednesday unsealed an indictment against two founders of the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer service, charging them with laundering more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds. Both the individuals, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, have been charged...
North Korean Affiliates Suspected in $40M Cryptocurrency Heist, FBI Warns
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on Tuesday warned that threat actors affiliated with North Korea may attempt to cash out stolen cryptocurrency worth more than $40 million. The law enforcement agency attributed the blockchain activity to an adversary the U.S. government tracks as...
Meta Set to Enable Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger by Year End
Meta has once again reaffirmed its plans to roll out support for end-to-end encryption E2EE by default for one-to-one friends and family chats on Messenger by the end of the year. As part of that effort, the social media giant said it's upgrading "millions more people's chats" effective August 22...
Agile Approach to Mass Cloud Credential Harvesting and Crypto Mining Sprints Ahead
Developers are not the only people who have adopted the agile methodology for their development processes. From 2023-06-15 to 2023-07-11, Permiso Security's p0 Labs team identified and tracked an attacker developing and deploying eight 8 incremental iterations of their credential harvesting malwa...
Syrian Threat Actor EVLF Unmasked as Creator of CypherRAT and CraxsRAT Android Malware
A Syrian threat actor named EVLF has been outed as the creator of malware families CypherRAT and CraxsRAT. "These RATs are designed to allow an attacker to remotely perform real-time actions and control the victim device's camera, location, and microphone," Cybersecurity firm Cyfirma said in a...
Spacecolon Toolset Fuels Global Surge in Scarab Ransomware Attacks
A malicious toolset dubbed Spacecolon is being deployed as part of an ongoing campaign to spread variants of the Scarab ransomware across victim organizations globally. "It probably finds its way into victim organizations by its operators compromising vulnerable web servers or via brute forcing R...
Over a Dozen Malicious npm Packages Target Roblox Game Developers
More than a dozen malicious packages have been discovered on the npm package repository since the start of August 2023 with capabilities to deploy an open-source information stealer called Luna Token Grabber on systems belonging to Roblox developers. The ongoing campaign, first detected on August...
CISOs Tout SaaS Cybersecurity Confidence, But 79% Admit to SaaS Incidents, New Report Finds
A new State of SaaS Security Posture Management Report from SaaS cybersecurity provider AppOmni indicates that Cybersecurity, IT, and business leaders alike recognize SaaS cybersecurity as an increasingly important part of the cyber threat landscape. And at first glance, respondents appear...
Carderbee Attacks: Hong Kong Organizations Targeted via Malicious Software Updates
A previously undocumented threat cluster has been linked to a software supply chain attack targeting organizations primarily located in Hong Kong and other regions in Asia. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, is tracking the activity under its insect-themed moniker Carderbee. The...
New Variant of XLoader macOS Malware Disguised as 'OfficeNote' Productivity App
A new variant of an Apple macOS malware called XLoader has surfaced in the wild, masquerading its malicious features under the guise of an office productivity app called "OfficeNote." "The new version of XLoader is bundled inside a standard Apple disk image with the name OfficeNote.dmg,"...
Ivanti Warns of Critical Zero-Day Flaw Being Actively Exploited in Sentry Software
Software services provider Ivanti is warning of a new critical zero-day flaw impacting Ivanti Sentry formerly MobileIron Sentry that it said is being actively exploited in the wild, marking an escalation of its security woes. Tracked as CVE-2023-38035 CVSS score: 9.8, the issue has been described...
Critical Adobe ColdFusion Flaw Added to CISA's Exploited Vulnerability Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added a critical security flaw in Adobe ColdFusion to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, cataloged as CVE-2023-26359 CVSS score: 9.8, relates to a...
New WinRAR Vulnerability Could Allow Hackers to Take Control of Your PC
A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the WinRAR utility that could be potentially exploited by a threat actor to achieve remote code execution on Windows systems. Tracked as CVE-2023-40477 CVSS score: 7.8, the vulnerability has been described as a case of improper validation while...
How to Investigate an OAuth Grant for Suspicious Activity or Overly Permissive Scopes
From a user's perspective, OAuth works like magic. In just a few keystrokes, you can whisk through the account creation process and gain immediate access to whatever new app or integration you're seeking. Unfortunately, few users understand the implications of the permissions they allow when they...
This Malware Turned Thousands of Hacked Windows and macOS PCs into Proxy Servers
Threat actors are leveraging access to malware-infected Windows and macOS machines to deliver a proxy server application and use them as exit nodes to reroute proxy requests. According to AT&T Alien Labs, the unnamed company that offers the proxy service operates more than 400,000 proxy exit node...
HiatusRAT Malware Resurfaces: Taiwan Firms and U.S. Military Under Attack
The threat actors behind the HiatusRAT malware have returned from their hiatus with a new wave of reconnaissance and targeting activity aimed at Taiwan-based organizations and a U.S. military procurement system. Besides recompiling malware samples for different architectures, the artifacts are sa...
WoofLocker Toolkit Hides Malicious Codes in Images to Run Tech Support Scams
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of an advanced fingerprinting and redirection toolkit called WoofLocker that's engineered to conduct tech support scams. The sophisticated traffic redirection scheme was first documented by Malwarebytes in January 2020, leveraging...
New Juniper Junos OS Flaws Expose Devices to Remote Attacks - Patch Now
Networking hardware company Juniper Networks has released an "out-of-cycle" security update to address multiple flaws in the J-Web component of Junos OS that could be combined to achieve remote code execution on susceptible installations. The four vulnerabilities have a cumulative CVSS rating of...
Thousands of Android Malware Apps Using Stealthy APK Compression to Evade Detection
Threat actors are using Android Package APK files with unknown or unsupported compression methods to elude malware analysis. That's according to findings from Zimperium, which found 3,300 artifacts leveraging such compression algorithms in the wild. 71 of the identified samples can be loaded on t...
14 Suspected Cybercriminals Arrested Across Africa in Coordinated Crackdown
A coordinated law enforcement operation across 25 African countries has led to the arrest of 14 suspected cybercriminals, INTERPOL announced Friday. The exercise, conducted in partnership with AFRIPOL, enabled investigators to identify 20,674 cyber networks that were linked to financial losses of...
The Vulnerability of Zero Trust: Lessons from the Storm 0558 Hack
While IT security managers in companies and public administrations rely on the concept of Zero Trust, APTS Advanced Persistent Threats are putting its practical effectiveness to the test. Analysts, on the other hand, understand that Zero Trust can only be achieved with comprehensive insight into...
New Wave of Attack Campaign Targeting Zimbra Email Users for Credential Theft
A new "mass-spreading" social engineering campaign is targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server with an aim to collect their login credentials for use in follow-on operations. The activity, active since April 2023 and still ongoing, targets a wide range of small and medium business...
New BlackCat Ransomware Variant Adopts Advanced Impacket and RemCom Tools
Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it found a new version of the BlackCat ransomware aka ALPHV and Noberus that embeds tools like Impacket and RemCom to facilitate lateral movement and remote code execution. "The Impacket tool has credential dumping and remote service execution modules that cou...
Google Chrome's New Feature Alerts Users About Auto-Removal of Malicious Extensions
Google has announced plans to add a new feature in the upcoming version of its Chrome web browser to proactively alert users when an extension they have installed has been removed from the Chrome Web Store. The feature, set for release alongside Chrome 117, allows users to be notified when an...
NoFilter Attack: Sneaky Privilege Escalation Method Bypasses Windows Security
A previously undetected attack method called NoFilter has been found to abuse the Windows Filtering Platform WFP to achieve privilege escalation in the Windows operating system. "If an attacker has the ability to execute code with admin privilege and the target is to perform LSASS Shtinkering,...
China-Linked Bronze Starlight Group Targeting Gambling Sector with Cobalt Strike Beacons
An ongoing cyber attack campaign originating from China is targeting the Southeast Asian gambling sector to deploy Cobalt Strike beacons on compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne said the tactics, techniques, and procedures point to the involvement of a threat actor tracked as Bronze...
New Apple iOS 16 Exploit Enables Stealthy Cellular Access Under Fake Airplane Mode
Cybersecurity researchers have documented a novel post-exploit persistence technique on iOS 16 that could be abused to fly under the radar and maintain access to an Apple device even when the victim believes it is offline. The method "tricks the victim into thinking their device's Airplane Mode...
New LABRAT Campaign Exploits GitLab Flaw for Cryptojacking and Proxyjacking Activities
A new, financially motivated operation dubbed LABRAT has been observed weaponizing a now-patched critical flaw in GitLab as part of a cryptojacking and proxyjacking campaign. "The attacker utilized undetected signature-based tools, sophisticated and stealthy cross-platform malware,...
Why You Need Continuous Network Monitoring?
Changes in the way we work have had significant implications for cybersecurity, not least in network monitoring. Workers no longer sit safely side-by-side on a corporate network, dev teams constantly spin up and tear down systems, exposing services to the internet. Keeping track of these users,...
Russian Hackers Use Zulip Chat App for Covert C&C in Diplomatic Phishing Attacks
An ongoing campaign targeting ministries of foreign affairs of NATO-aligned countries points to the involvement of Russian threat actors. The phishing attacks feature PDF documents with diplomatic lures, some of which are disguised as coming from Germany, to deliver a variant of a malware called...
CISA Adds Citrix ShareFile Flaw to KEV Catalog Due to In-the-Wild Attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added a critical security flaw in Citrix ShareFile storage zones controller to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active in-the-wild exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2023-24489 CVSS score: 9.8, the...
What's the State of Credential theft in 2023?
At a little overt halfway through 2023, credential theft is still a major thorn in the side of IT teams. The heart of the problem is the value of data to cybercriminals and the evolution of the techniques they use to get hold of it. The 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR revealed...
Experts Uncover Weaknesses in PowerShell Gallery Enabling Supply Chain Attacks
Active flaws in the PowerShell Gallery could be weaponized by threat actors to pull off supply chain attacks against the registry's users. "These flaws make typosquatting attacks inevitable in this registry, while also making it extremely difficult for users to identify the true owner of a...
Guide: How Google Workspace-based Organizations can leverage Chrome to improve Security
More and more organizations are choosing Google Workspace as their default employee toolset of choice. But despite the productivity advantages, this organizational action also incurs a new security debt. Security teams now have to find a way to adjust their security architecture to this new cloud...
Google Introduces First Quantum Resilient FIDO2 Security Key Implementation
Google on Tuesday announced the first quantum resilient FIDO2 security key implementation as part of its OpenSK security keys initiative. "This open-source hardware optimized implementation uses a novel ECC/Dilithium hybrid signature schema that benefits from the security of ECC against standard...
Critical Security Flaws Affect Ivanti Avalanche, Threatening 30,000 Organizations
Multiple critical security flaws have been reported in Ivanti Avalanche, an enterprise mobile device management solution that's used by 30,000 organizations. The vulnerabilities, collectively tracked as CVE-2023-32560 CVSS score: 9.8, are stack-based buffer overflows in Ivanti Avalanche...
Nearly 2,000 Citrix NetScaler Instances Hacked via Critical Vulnerability
Nearly 2,000 Citrix NetScaler instances have been compromised with a backdoor by weaponizing a recently disclosed critical security vulnerability as part of a large-scale attack. "An adversary appears to have exploited CVE-2023-3519 in an automated fashion, placing web shells on vulnerable...
Cybercriminals Abusing Cloudflare R2 for Hosting Phishing Pages, Experts Warn
Threat actors' use of Cloudflare R2 to host phishing pages has witnessed a 61-fold increase over the past six months. "The majority of the phishing campaigns target Microsoft login credentials, although there are some pages targeting Adobe, Dropbox, and other cloud apps," Netskope security...
Catching the Catphish: Join the Expert Webinar on Combating Credential Phishing
Is your organization constantly under threat from credential phishing? Even with comprehensive security awareness training, many employees still fall victim to credential phishing scams. The result? Cybercriminals gaining immediate and unhindered access to sensitive data, email accounts, and othe...
Multiple Flaws Found in ScrutisWeb Software Exposes ATMs to Remote Hacking
Four security vulnerabilities in the ScrutisWeb ATM fleet monitoring software made by Iagona could be exploited to remotely break into ATMs, upload arbitrary files, and even reboot the terminals. The shortcomings were discovered by the Synack Red Team SRT following a client engagement. The issues...
Monti Ransomware Returns with New Linux Variant and Enhanced Evasion Tactics
The threat actors behind the Monti ransomware have resurfaced after a two-month break with a new Linux version of the encryptor in its attacks targeting government and legal sectors. Monti emerged in June 2022, weeks after the Conti ransomware group shut down its operations, deliberately imitatin...
Malware Unleashed: Public Sector Hit in Sudden Surge, Reveals New Report
The just-released BlackBerry Global Threat Intelligence Report reveals a 40% increase in cyberattacks against government and public service organizations versus the previous quarter. This includes public transit, utilities, schools, and other government services we rely on daily. With limited...