Hackers Use MS Excel Macro to Launch Multi-Stage Malware Attack in Ukraine

A new sophisticated cyber attack has been observed targeting endpoints geolocated to Ukraine with an aim to deploy Cobalt Strike and seize control of the compromised hosts. The attack chain, per Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, involves a Microsoft Excel file that carries an embedded VBA macro to initia...

Snowflake Warns: Targeted Credential Theft Campaign Hits Cloud Customers

Cloud computing and analytics company Snowflake said a "limited number" of its customers have been singled out as part of a targeted campaign. "We have not identified evidence suggesting this activity was caused by a vulnerability, misconfiguration, or breach of Snowflake's platform," the company...

DarkGate Malware Replaces AutoIt with AutoHotkey in Latest Cyber Attacks

Cyber attacks involving the DarkGate malware-as-a-service MaaS operation have shifted away from AutoIt scripts to an AutoHotkey mechanism to deliver the last stages, underscoring continued efforts on the part of the threat actors to continuously stay ahead of the detection curve. The updates have...

Oracle WebLogic Server OS Command Injection Flaw Under Active Attack

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday added a security flaw impacting the Oracle WebLogic Server to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2017-3506 CVSS score: 7.4, the issue concerns an operati...

Researchers Uncover RAT-Dropping npm Package Targeting Gulp Users

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new suspicious package uploaded to the npm package registry that's designed to drop a remote access trojan RAT on compromised systems. The package in question is glup-debugger-log, which targets users of the gulp toolkit by masquerading as a "logger for...

Authorities Ramp Up Efforts to Capture the Mastermind Behind Emotet

Law enforcement authorities behind Operation Endgame are seeking information related to an individual who goes by the name Odd and is allegedly the mastermind behind the Emotet malware. Odd is also said to go by the nicknames Aron, C700, Cbd748, Ivanov Odd, Mors, Morse, and Veron over the past fe...

SASE Threat Report: 8 Key Findings for Enterprise Security

Threat actors are evolving, yet Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI remains confined to each isolated point solution. Organizations require a holistic analysis across external data, inbound and outbound threats and network activity. This will enable evaluating the true state of cybersecurity in the...

Researcher Uncovers Flaws in Cox Modems, Potentially Impacting Millions

Now-patched authorization bypass issues impacting Cox modems could have been abused as a starting point to gain unauthorized access to the devices and run malicious commands. "This series of vulnerabilities demonstrated a way in which a fully external attacker with no prerequisites could've...

Andariel Hackers Target South Korean Institutes with New Dora RAT Malware

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Andariel has been observed using a new Golang-based backdoor called Dora RAT in its attacks targeting educational institutes, manufacturing firms, and construction businesses in South Korea. "Keylogger, Infostealer, and proxy tools on top of the backdo...

Beware: Fake Browser Updates Deliver BitRAT and Lumma Stealer Malware

Fake web browser updates are being used to deliver remote access trojans RATs and information stealer malware such as BitRAT and Lumma Stealer aka LummaC2. "Fake browser updates have been responsible for numerous malware infections, including those of the well-known SocGholish malware,"...

AI Company Hugging Face Detects Unauthorized Access to Its Spaces Platform

Artificial Intelligence AI company Hugging Face on Friday disclosed that it detected unauthorized access to its Spaces platform earlier this week. "We have suspicions that a subset of Spaces' secrets could have been accessed without authorization," it said in an advisory. Spaces offers a way for...

Mysterious Cyber Attack Took Down 600,000+ Routers in the U.S.

More than 600,000 small office/home office SOHO routers are estimated to have been bricked and taken offline following a destructive cyber attack staged by unidentified cyber actors, disrupting users' access to the internet. The mysterious event, which took place between October 25 and 27, 2023,...

Microsoft Warns of Surge in Cyber Attacks Targeting Internet-Exposed OT Devices

Microsoft has emphasized the need for securing internet-exposed operational technology OT devices following a spate of cyber attacks targeting such environments since late 2023. "These repeated attacks against OT devices emphasize the crucial need to improve the security posture of OT devices and...

Beyond Threat Detection – A Race to Digital Security

Digital content is a double-edged sword, providing vast benefits while simultaneously posing significant threats to organizations across the globe. The sharing of digital content has increased significantly in recent years, mainly via email, digital documents, and chat. In turn, this has created ...

Russian Hackers Target Europe with HeadLace Malware and Credential Harvesting

The Russian GRU-backed threat actor APT28 has been attributed as behind a series of campaigns targeting networks across Europe with the HeadLace malware and credential-harvesting web pages. APT28, also known by the names BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, Forest Blizzard, FROZENLAKE, Iron Twilight, ITG05, Pa...

OpenAI, Meta, and TikTok Crack Down on Covert Influence Campaigns, Some AI-Powered

OpenAI on Thursday disclosed that it took steps to cut off five covert influence operations IO originating from China, Iran, Israel, and Russia that sought to abuse its artificial intelligence AI tools to manipulate public discourse or political outcomes online while obscuring their true identity...

CISA Alerts Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday added a security flaw impacting the Linux kernel to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2024-1086 CVSS score: 7.8, the high-severity issue relates to a...

FlyingYeti Exploits WinRAR Vulnerability to Deliver COOKBOX Malware in Ukraine

Cloudflare on Thursday said it took steps to disrupt a month-long phishing campaign orchestrated by a Russia-aligned threat actor called FlyingYeti targeting Ukraine. "The FlyingYeti campaign capitalized on anxiety over the potential loss of access to housing and utilities by enticing targets to...

Cyber Espionage Alert: LilacSquid Targets IT, Energy, and Pharma Sectors

A previously undocumented cyber espionage-focused threat actor named LilacSquid has been linked to targeted attacks spanning various sectors in the United States U.S., Europe, and Asia as part of a data theft campaign since at least 2021. "The campaign is geared toward establishing long-term acce...

RedTail Crypto-Mining Malware Exploiting Palo Alto Networks Firewall Vulnerability

The threat actors behind the RedTail cryptocurrency mining malware have added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting Palo Alto Networks firewalls to its exploit arsenal. The addition of the PAN-OS vulnerability to its toolkit has been complemented by updates to the malware, which now...

Researchers Uncover Active Exploitation of WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity researchers have warned that multiple high-severity security vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins are being actively exploited by threat actors to create rogue administrator accounts for follow-on exploitation. "These vulnerabilities are found in various WordPress plugins and are...

How to Build Your Autonomous SOC Strategy

Security leaders are in a tricky position trying to discern how much new AI-driven cybersecurity tools could actually benefit a security operations center SOC. The hype about generative AI is still everywhere, but security teams have to live in reality. They face constantly incoming alerts from...

Europol Shuts Down 100+ Servers Linked to IcedID, TrickBot, and Other Malware

Europol on Thursday said it shut down the infrastructure associated with several malware loader operations such as IcedID, SystemBC, PikaBot, SmokeLoader, Bumblebee, and TrickBot as part of a coordinated law enforcement effort codenamed Operation Endgame. "The actions focused on disrupting crimin...

U.S. Dismantles World's Largest 911 S5 Botnet with 19 Million Infected Devices

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday said it dismantled what it described as "likely the world's largest botnet ever," which consisted of an army of 19 million infected devices that was leased to other threat actors to commit a wide array of offenses. The botnet, which has a global...

Okta Warns of Credential Stuffing Attacks Targeting Customer Identity Cloud

Okta is warning that a cross-origin authentication feature in Customer Identity Cloud CIC is susceptible to credential stuffing attacks orchestrated by threat actors. "We observed that the endpoints used to support the cross-origin authentication feature being attacked via credential stuffing for...

Cybercriminals Abuse Stack Overflow to Promote Malicious Python Package

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new malicious Python package that has been discovered in the Python Package Index PyPI repository to facilitate cryptocurrency theft as part of a broader campaign. The package in question is pytoileur, which has been downloaded 316 times as of writing...

Check Point Warns of Zero-Day Attacks on its VPN Gateway Products

Check Point is warning of a zero-day vulnerability in its Network Security gateway products that threat actors have exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-24919 CVSS score: 8.6, the issue impacts CloudGuard Network, Quantum Maestro, Quantum Scalable Chassis, Quantum Security Gateways, and...

Brazilian Banks Targeted by New AllaKore RAT Variant Called AllaSenha

Brazilian banking institutions are the target of a new campaign that distributes a custom variant of the Windows-based AllaKore remote access trojan RAT called AllaSenha. The malware is "specifically aimed at stealing credentials that are required to access Brazilian bank accounts, and leverages...

U.S. Sentences 31-Year-Old to 10 Years for Laundering $4.5M in Email Scams

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ has sentenced a 31-year-old man to 10 years in prison for laundering more than $4.5 million through business email compromise BEC schemes and romance scams. Malachi Mullings, 31, of Sandy Springs, Georgia pleaded guilty to the money laundering offenses in Januar...

New Research Warns About Weak Offboarding Management and Insider Risks

A recent study by Wing Security found that 63% of businesses may have former employees with access to organizational data, and that automating SaaS Security can help mitigate offboarding risks. Employee offboarding is typically seen as a routine administrative task, but it can pose substantial...

Microsoft Uncovers 'Moonstone Sleet' — New North Korean Hacker Group

A never-before-seen North Korean threat actor codenamed Moonstone Sleet has been attributed as behind cyber attacks targeting individuals and organizations in the software and information technology, education, and defense industrial base sectors with ransomware and bespoke malware previously...

BreachForums Returns Just Weeks After FBI Seizure - Honeypot or Blunder?

The online criminal bazaar BreachForums has been resurrected merely two weeks after a U.S.-led coordinated law enforcement action dismantled and seized control of its infrastructure. Cybersecurity researchers and dark web trackers Brett Callow, Dark Web Informer, and FalconFeeds revealed the site...

Indian National Pleads Guilty to $37 Million Cryptocurrency Theft Scheme

An Indian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. over charges of stealing more than $37 million by setting up a website that impersonated the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange platform. Chirag Tomar, 30, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in pris...

4-Step Approach to Mapping and Securing Your Organization's Most Critical Assets

You're probably familiar with the term "critical assets". These are the technology assets within your company's IT infrastructure that are essential to the functioning of your organization. If anything happens to these assets, such as application servers, databases, or privileged identities, the...

Researchers Warn of CatDDoS Botnet and DNSBomb DDoS Attack Technique

The threat actors behind the CatDDoS malware botnet have exploited over 80 known security flaws in various software over the past three months to infiltrate vulnerable devices and co-opt them into a botnet for conducting distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. "CatDDoS-related gangs' samples...

WordPress Plugin Exploited to Steal Credit Card Data from E-commerce Sites

Unknown threat actors are abusing lesser-known code snippet plugins for WordPress to insert malicious PHP code in victim sites that are capable of harvesting credit card data. The campaign, observed by Sucuri on May 11, 2024, entails the abuse of a WordPress plugin called Dessky Snippets, which...

TP-Link Gaming Router Vulnerability Exposes Users to Remote Code Attacks

A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the TP-Link Archer C5400X gaming router that could lead to remote code execution on susceptible devices by sending specially crafted requests. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5035, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. It impacts all versions ...

Moroccan Cybercrime Group Steals Up to $100K Daily Through Gift Card Fraud

Microsoft is calling attention to a Morocco-based cybercrime group dubbed Storm-0539 that's behind gift card fraud and theft through highly sophisticated email and SMS phishing attacks. "Their primary motivation is to steal gift cards and profit by selling them online at a discounted rate," the...

Report: The Dark Side of Phishing Protection

The transition to the cloud, poor password hygiene and the evolution in webpage technologies have all enabled the rise in phishing attacks. But despite sincere efforts by security stakeholders to mitigate them - through email protection, firewall rules and employee education - phishing attacks ar...

New Tricks in the Phishing Playbook: Cloudflare Workers, HTML Smuggling, GenAI

Cybersecurity researchers are alerting of phishing campaigns that abuse Cloudflare Workers to serve phishing sites that are used to harvest users' credentials associated with Microsoft, Gmail, Yahoo!, and cPanel Webmail. The attack method, called transparent phishing or adversary-in-the-middle Ai...

Pakistan-linked Hackers Deploy Python, Golang, and Rust Malware on Indian Targets

The Pakistan-nexus Transparent Tribe actor has been linked to a new set of attacks targeting Indian government, defense, and aerospace sectors using cross-platform malware written in Python, Golang, and Rust. "This cluster of activity spanned from late 2023 to April 2024 and is anticipated to...

Experts Find Flaw in Replicate AI Service Exposing Customers' Models and Data

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security flaw in an artificial intelligence AI-as-a-service provider Replicate that could have allowed threat actors to gain access to proprietary AI models and sensitive information. "Exploitation of this vulnerability would have allowed...

Hackers Created Rogue VMs to Evade Detection in Recent MITRE Cyber Attack

The MITRE Corporation has revealed that the cyber attack targeting the not-for-profit company towards late December 2023 by exploiting zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure ICS involved the threat actor creating rogue virtual machines VMs within its VMware environment. "The adversary created...

Beware: These Fake Antivirus Sites Spreading Android and Windows Malware

Threat actors have been observed making use of fake websites masquerading as legitimate antivirus solutions from Avast, Bitdefender, and Malwarebytes to propagate malware capable of stealing sensitive information from Android and Windows devices. "Hosting malicious software through sites which lo...

How Do Hackers Blend In So Well? Learn Their Tricks in This Expert Webinar

Don't be fooled into thinking that cyber threats are only a problem for large organizations. The truth is that cybercriminals are increasingly targeting smaller businesses, and they're getting smarter every day. Join our FREE webinar "Navigating the SMB Threat Landscape: Key Insights from Huntres...

DevOps Dilemma: How Can CISOs Regain Control in the Age of Speed?

Introduction The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack 2021 and SolarWinds supply chain attack 2020 were pivotal moments in cybersecurity, starting a new challenge for Chief Information Security Officers CISOs. These attacks highlighted the importance of collaboration between CISOs and DevOps teams...

Update Chrome Browser Now: 4th Zero-Day Exploit Discovered in May 2024

Google on Thursday rolled out fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser that it said has been exploited in the wild. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-5274, the vulnerability relates to a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. It was reported...

JAVS Courtroom Recording Software Backdoored - Deploys RustDoor Malware

Malicious actors have backdoored the installer associated with courtroom video recording software developed by Justice AV Solutions JAVS to deliver malware that's associated with a known implant called RustDoor. The software supply chain attack, tracked as CVE-2024-4978 CVSS score: 8.7, impacts...

Stealthy BLOODALCHEMY Malware Targeting ASEAN Government Networks

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that the malware known as BLOODALCHEMY used in attacks targeting government organizations in Southern and Southeastern Asia is in fact an updated version of Deed RAT, which is believed to be a successor to ShadowPad. "The origin of BLOODALCHEMY and Deed R...

Ransomware Attacks Exploit VMware ESXi Vulnerabilities in Alarming Pattern

Ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi infrastructure follow an established pattern regardless of the file-encrypting malware deployed, new findings show. "Virtualization platforms are a core component of organizational IT infrastructure, yet they often suffer from inherent misconfigurations an...