Ngioweb Botnet Fuels NSOCKS Residential Proxy Network Exploiting IoT Devices

The malware known as Ngioweb has been used to fuel a notorious residential proxy service called NSOCKS, as well as by other services such as VN5Socks and Shopsocks5, new findings from Lumen Technologies reveal. "At least 80% of NSOCKS bots in our telemetry originate from the Ngioweb botnet, mainl...

Hackers Hijack Unsecured Jupyter Notebooks to Stream Illegal Sports Broadcasts

Malicious actors are exploiting misconfigured JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebooks to conduct stream ripping and enable sports piracy using live streaming capture tools. The attacks involve the hijack of unauthenticated Jupyter Notebooks to establish initial access, and perform a series of actions...

Privileged Accounts, Hidden Threats: Why Privileged Access Security Must Be a Top Priority

Privileged accounts are well-known gateways for potential security threats. However, many organizations focus solely on managing privileged access—rather than securing the accounts and users entrusted with it. This emphasis is perhaps due to the persistent challenges of Privileged Access Manageme...

New 'Helldown' Ransomware Variant Expands Attacks to VMware and Linux Systems

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Linux variant of a relatively new ransomware strain called Helldown, suggesting that the threat actors are broadening their attack focus. "Helldown deploys Windows ransomware derived from the LockBit 3.0 code," Sekoia said in a report shared with The...

Chinese Hackers Exploit T-Mobile and Other U.S. Telecoms in Broader Espionage Campaign

U.S. telecoms giant T-Mobile has confirmed that it was also among the companies that were targeted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to valuable information. The adversaries, tracked as Salt Typhoon, breached the company as part of a "monthslong campaign" designed to harvest cellphone...

Warning: VMware vCenter and Kemp LoadMaster Flaws Under Active Exploitation

Now-patched security flaws impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster and VMware vCenter Server have come under active exploitation in the wild, it has emerged. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday added CVE-2024-1212 CVSS score: 10.0, a maximum-severity security...

New Stealthy BabbleLoader Malware Spotted Delivering WhiteSnake and Meduza Stealers

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new stealthy malware loader called BabbleLoader that has been observed in the wild delivering information stealer families such as WhiteSnake and Meduza. BabbleLoader is an "extremely evasive loader, packed with defensive mechanisms, that is designed...

The Problem of Permissions and Non-Human Identities - Why Remediating Credentials Takes Longer Than You Think

According to research from GitGuardian and CyberArk, 79% of IT decision-makers reported having experienced a secrets leak, up from 75% in the previous year's report. At the same time, the number of leaked credentials has never been higher, with over 12.7 million hardcoded credentials in public...

THN Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools, and Practices (Nov 11 - Nov 17)

What do hijacked websites, fake job offers, and sneaky ransomware have in common? They're proof that cybercriminals are finding smarter, sneakier ways to exploit both systems and people. This week makes one thing clear: no system, no person, no organization is truly off-limits. Attackers are...

Gmail's New Shielded Email Feature Lets Users Create Aliases for Email Privacy

Google appears to be readying a new feature called Shielded Email that allows users to create email aliases when signing up for online services and better combat spam. The feature was first reported by Android Authority last week following a teardown of the latest version of Google Play Services...

Beyond Compliance: The Advantage of Year-Round Network Pen Testing

IT leaders know the drill—regulators and cyber insurers demand regular network penetration testing to keep the bad guys out. But here's the thing: hackers don't wait around for compliance schedules. Most companies approach network penetration testing on a set schedule, with the most common...

Fake Discount Sites Exploit Black Friday to Hijack Shopper Information

A new phishing campaign is targeting e-commerce shoppers in Europe and the United States with bogus pages that mimic legitimate brands with the goal of stealing their personal information ahead of the Black Friday shopping season. "The campaign leveraged the heightened online shopping activity in...

NSO Group Exploited WhatsApp to Install Pegasus Spyware Even After Meta's Lawsuit

Legal documents released as part of an ongoing legal tussle between Meta's WhatsApp and NSO Group have revealed that the Israeli spyware vendor used multiple exploits targeting the messaging app to deliver Pegasus, including one even after it was sued by Meta for doing so. They also show that NSO...

Urgent: Critical WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Over 4 Million Sites

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability has been disclosed in the Really Simple Security formerly Really Simple SSL plugin for WordPress that, if successfully exploited, could grant an attacker to remotely gain full administrative access to a susceptible site. The vulnerability, tracked as...

PAN-OS Firewall Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation – IoCs and Patch Released

Palo Alto Networks has released new indicators of compromise IoCs a day after the network security vendor confirmed that a zero-day vulnerability impacting its PAN-OS firewall management interface has been actively exploited in the wild. To that end, the company said it observed malicious activit...

Warning: DEEPDATA Malware Exploiting Unpatched Fortinet Flaw to Steal VPN Credentials

A threat actor known as BrazenBamboo has exploited an unresolved security flaw in Fortinet's FortiClient for Windows to extract VPN credentials as part of a modular framework called DEEPDATA. Volexity, which disclosed the findings Friday, said it identified the zero-day exploitation of the...

Iranian Hackers Deploy WezRat Malware in Attacks Targeting Israeli Organizations

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new remote access trojan and information stealer used by Iranian state-sponsored actors to conduct reconnaissance of compromised endpoints and execute malicious commands. Cybersecurity company Check Point has codenamed the malware WezRat , stating it...

Researchers Warn of Privilege Escalation Risks in Google's Vertex AI ML Platform

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in Google's Vertex machine learning ML platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow malicious actors to escalate privileges and exfiltrate models from the cloud. "By exploiting custom job permissions, we were able to escalate ou...

Live Webinar: Dive Deep into Crypto Agility and Certificate Management

In the fast-paced digital world, trust is everything—but what happens when that trust is disrupted? Certificate revocations, though rare, can send shockwaves through your operations, impacting security, customer confidence, and business continuity. Are you prepared to act swiftly when the...

Vietnamese Hacker Group Deploys New PXA Stealer Targeting Europe and Asia

A Vietnamese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an information-stealing campaign targeting government and education entities in Europe and Asia with a new Python-based malware called PXA Stealer. The malware "targets victims' sensitive information, including credentials for various online...

How AI Is Transforming IAM and Identity Security

In recent years, artificial intelligence AI has begun revolutionizing Identity Access Management IAM, reshaping how cybersecurity is approached in this crucial field. Leveraging AI in IAM is about tapping into its analytical capabilities to monitor access patterns and identify anomalies that coul...

High-Severity Flaw in PostgreSQL Allows Hackers to Exploit Environment Variables

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the PostgreSQL open-source database system that could allow unprivileged users to alter environment variables, and potentially lead to code execution or information disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10979 ,...

Bitfinex Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years, Guilty of Laundering $10.5 Billion in Bitcoin

Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, has been sentenced to five years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ announced Thursday. Lichtenstein was charged for his involvement in a money laundering scheme that led to the theft of...

CISA Flags Two Actively Exploited Palo Alto Flaws; New RCE Attack Confirmed

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday warned that two more flaws impacting the Palo Alto Networks Expedition software have come under active exploitation in the wild. To that end, it has added the vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV...

Experts Uncover 70,000 Hijacked Domains in Widespread 'Sitting Ducks' Attack Scheme

Multiple threat actors have been found taking advantage of an attack technique called Sitting Ducks to hijack legitimate domains for using them in phishing attacks and investment fraud schemes for years. The findings come from Infoblox, which said it identified nearly 800,000 vulnerable registere...

Google Warns of Rising Cloaking Scams, AI-Driven Fraud, and Crypto Schemes

Google has revealed that bad actors are leveraging techniques like landing page cloaking to conduct scams by impersonating legitimate sites. "Cloaking is specifically designed to prevent moderation systems and teams from reviewing policy-violating content which enables them to deploy the scam...

5 BCDR Oversights That Leave You Exposed to Ransomware

Ransomware isn't just a buzzword; it's one of the most dreaded challenges businesses face in this increasingly digitized world. Ransomware attacks are not only increasing in frequency but also in sophistication, with new ransomware groups constantly emerging. Their attack methods are evolving...

TikTok Pixel Privacy Nightmare: A New Case Study

Advertising on TikTok is the obvious choice for any company trying to reach a young market, and especially so if it happens to be a travel company, with 44% of American Gen Zs saying they use the platform to plan their vacations. But one online travel marketplace targeting young holidaymakers wit...

New RustyAttr Malware Targets macOS Through Extended Attribute Abuse

Threat actors have been found leveraging a new technique that abuses extended attributes for macOS files to smuggle a new malware called RustyAttr. The Singaporean cybersecurity company has attributed the novel activity with moderate confidence to the infamous North Korea-linked Lazarus Group,...

Russian Hackers Exploit New NTLM Flaw to Deploy RAT Malware via Phishing Emails

A newly patched security flaw impacting Windows NT LAN Manager NTLM was exploited as a zero-day by a suspected Russia-linked actor as part of cyber attacks targeting Ukraine. The vulnerability in question, CVE-2024-43451 CVSS score: 6.5, refers to an NTLM hash disclosure spoofing vulnerability th...

Hamas-Affiliated WIRTE Employs SameCoin Wiper in Disruptive Attacks Against Israel

A threat actor affiliated with Hamas has expanded its malicious cyber operations beyond espionage to carry out disruptive attacks that exclusively target Israeli entities. The activity, linked to a group called WIRTE , has also targeted the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and...

Free Decryptor Released for BitLocker-Based ShrinkLocker Ransomware Victims

Romanian cybersecurity company Bitdefender has released a free decryptor to help victims recover data encrypted using the ShrinkLocker ransomware. The decryptor is the result of a comprehensive analysis of ShrinkLocker's inner workings, allowing the researchers to discover a "specific window of...

Comprehensive Guide to Building a Strong Browser Security Program

The rise of SaaS and cloud-based work environments has fundamentally altered the cyber risk landscape. With more than 90% of organizational network traffic flowing through browsers and web applications, companies are facing new and serious cybersecurity threats. These include phishing attacks, da...

OvrC Platform Vulnerabilities Expose IoT Devices to Remote Attacks and Code Execution

A security analysis of the OvrC cloud platform has uncovered 10 vulnerabilities that could be chained to allow potential attackers to execute code remotely on connected devices. "Attackers successfully exploiting these vulnerabilities can access, control, and disrupt devices supported by OvrC; so...

Iranian Hackers Use "Dream Job" Lures to Deploy SnailResin Malware in Aerospace Attacks

The Iranian threat actor known as TA455 has been observed taking a leaf out of a North Korean hacking group's playbook to orchestrate its own version of the Dream Job campaign targeting the aerospace industry by offering fake jobs since at least September 2023. "The campaign distributed the...

Microsoft Fixes 90 New Flaws, Including Actively Exploited NTLM and Task Scheduler Bugs

Microsoft on Tuesday revealed that two security flaws impacting Windows NT LAN Manager NTLM and Task Scheduler have come under active exploitation in the wild. The security vulnerabilities are among the 90 security bugs the tech giant addressed as part of its Patch Tuesday update for November 202...

New Flaws in Citrix Virtual Apps Enable RCE Attacks via MSMQ Misconfiguration

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed new security flaws impacting Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop that could be exploited to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution RCE The issue, per findings from watchTowr, is rooted in the Session Recording component that allows system administrators...

New Phishing Tool GoIssue Targets GitHub Developers in Bulk Email Campaigns

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new sophisticated tool called GoIssue that can be used to send phishing messages at scale targeting GitHub users. The program, first marketed by a threat actor named cyberdluffy aka Cyber D' Luffy on the Runion forum earlier this August, is...

North Korean Hackers Target macOS Using Flutter-Embedded Malware

Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPRK aka North Korea have been found embedding malware within Flutter applications, marking the first time this tactic has been adopted by the adversary to infect Apple macOS devices. Jamf Threat Labs, which made the discovery...

5 Ways Behavioral Analytics is Revolutionizing Incident Response

Behavioral analytics, long associated with threat detection i.e. UEBA or UBA, is experiencing a renaissance. Once primarily used to identify suspicious activity, it's now being reimagined as a powerful post-detection technology that enhances incident response processes. By leveraging behavioral...

New Ymir Ransomware Exploits Memory for Stealthy Attacks; Targets Corporate Networks

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new ransomware family called Ymir that was deployed in an attack two days after systems were compromised by a stealer malware called RustyStealer. "Ymir ransomware introduces a unique combination of technical features and tactics that enhance its...

THN Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools, and Practices (Nov 04 - Nov 10)

⚠️ Imagine this: the very tools you trust to protect you online—your two-factor authentication, your car's tech system, even your security software—turned into silent allies for hackers. Sounds like a scene from a thriller, right? Yet, in 2024, this isn't fiction; it's the new cyber reality...

New GootLoader Campaign Targets Users Searching for Bengal Cat Laws in Australia

In an unusually specific campaign, users searching about the legality of Bengal Cats in Australia are being targeted with the GootLoader malware. "In this case, we found the GootLoader actors using search results for information about a particular cat and a particular geography being used to...

The ROI of Security Investments: How Cybersecurity Leaders Prove It

Cyber threats are intensifying, and cybersecurity has become critical to business operations. As security budgets grow, CEOs and boardrooms are demanding concrete evidence that cybersecurity initiatives deliver value beyond regulation compliance. Just like you wouldn't buy a car without knowing i...

Security Flaws in Popular ML Toolkits Enable Server Hijacks, Privilege Escalation

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered nearly two dozen security flaws spanning 15 different machine learning ML related open-source projects. These comprise vulnerabilities discovered both on the server- and client-side, software supply chain security firm JFrog said in an analysis published...

HPE Issues Critical Security Patches for Aruba Access Point Vulnerabilities

Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Aruba Networking Access Point products, including two critical bugs that could result in unauthenticated command execution. The flaws affect Access Points running Instant AOS-8 and AOS-10 -...

Cybercriminals Use Excel Exploit to Spread Fileless Remcos RAT Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign that spreads a new fileless variant of known commercial malware called Remcos RAT. Remcos RAT "provides purchases with a wide range of advanced features to remotely control computers belonging to the buyer," Fortinet FortiGuard Lab...

Palo Alto Advises Securing PAN-OS Interface Amid Potential RCE Threat Concerns

Palo Alto Networks on Friday issued an informational advisory urging customers to ensure that access to the PAN-OS management interface is secured because of a potential remote code execution vulnerability. "Palo Alto Networks is aware of a claim of a remote code execution vulnerability via the...

Bitcoin Fog Founder Sentenced to 12 Years for Cryptocurrency Money Laundering

The 36-year-old founder of the Bitcoin Fog cryptocurrency mixer has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison for facilitating money laundering activities between 2011 and 2021. Roman Sterlingov, a dual Russian-Swedish national, pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and operatin...

AndroxGh0st Malware Integrates Mozi Botnet to Target IoT and Cloud Services

The threat actors behind the AndroxGh0st malware are now exploiting a broader set of security flaws impacting various internet-facing applications, while also deploying the Mozi botnet malware. "This botnet utilizes remote code execution and credential-stealing methods to maintain persistent...