Cyber Security

Nov 15, 2023NewsroomCyber Crime / Network Security The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the takedown of the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure, as the Russian and Moldovan national behind the operation pleaded guilty. “The botnet infrastructure had infected Windows systems then further expanded to infect Linux, Mac, and Android devices, victimizing computers and

Nov 15, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Hardware Security Intel has released fixes to close out a high-severity flaw codenamed Reptar that impacts its desktop, mobile, and server CPUs. Tracked as CVE-2023-23583 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has the potential to “allow escalation of privilege and/or information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.” Successful exploitation of

Nov 14, 2023NewsroomHardware Security / Virtualization A group of academics has disclosed a new “software fault attack” on AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology that could be potentially exploited by threat actors to infiltrate encrypted virtual machines (VMs) and even perform privilege escalation. The attack has been codenamed CacheWarp (CVE-2023-20592) by researchers from the CISPA

Nov 14, 2023The Hacker NewsPen Testing / Vulnerability Management In 2023, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million. Beyond the immediate financial loss, there are long-term consequences like diminished customer trust, weakened brand value, and derailed business operations. In a world where the frequency and cost of data breaches are skyrocketing,

Nov 14, 2023NewsroomChatGPT / Malware The Vietnamese threat actors behind the Ducktail stealer malware have been linked to a new campaign that ran between March and early October 2023, targeting marketing professionals in India with an aim to hijack Facebook business accounts. “An important feature that sets it apart is that, unlike previous campaigns, which

Nov 13, 2023The Hacker News Effective marketing operations today are driven by the use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Marketing apps such as Salesforce, Hubspot, Outreach, Asana, Monday, and Box empower marketing teams, agencies, freelancers, and subject matter experts to collaborate seamlessly on campaigns and marketing initiatives. These apps serve as the digital command centers for

Nov 13, 2023NewsroomCyber Threat / Malware The threat actors behind a new ransomware group called Hunters International have acquired the source code and infrastructure from the now-dismantled Hive operation to kick-start its own efforts in the threat landscape. “It appears that the leadership of the Hive group made the strategic decision to cease their operations

Nov 13, 2023NewsroomNational Security / Cyber Attack Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is malicious cyber activity orchestrated by two prominent Chinese nation-state hacking groups targeting 24 Cambodian government organizations. “This activity is believed to be part of a long-term espionage campaign,” Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers said in a report last week.

Nov 09, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware Iranian nation-state actors have been observed using a previously undocumented command-and-control (C2) framework called MuddyC2Go as part of attacks targeting Israel. “The framework’s web component is written in the Go programming language,” Deep Instinct security researcher Simon Kenin said in a technical report published Wednesday. The tool has been

Nov 09, 2023The Hacker NewsEmail Security / SaaS Security While intended for convenience and efficient communication, email auto-forwarding rules can inadvertently lead to the unauthorized dissemination of sensitive information to external entities, putting confidential data at risk of exposure to unauthorized parties. Wing Security (Wing), a SaaS security company, announced yesterday that their SaaS shadow

Nov 10, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Cyber Threat A group with links to Iran targeted transportation, logistics, and technology sectors in the Middle East, including Israel, in October 2023 amid a surge in Iranian cyber activity since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war. The attacks have been attributed by CrowdStrike to a threat actor it tracks

Nov 11, 2023NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Cybercrime A sub-cluster within the infamous Lazarus Group has established new infrastructure that impersonates skills assessment portals as part of its social engineering campaigns. Microsoft attributed the activity to a threat actor it calls Sapphire Sleet, describing it as a “shift in the persistent actor’s tactics.” Sapphire Sleet, also called

Nov 10, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a stealthy backdoor named Effluence that’s deployed following the successful exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. “The malware acts as a persistent backdoor and is not remediated by applying patches to Confluence,” Aon’s Stroz Friedberg Incident

Nov 10, 2023The Hacker NewsThreat Intelligence / SecOps There is a seemingly never-ending quest to find the right security tools that offer the right capabilities for your organization. SOC teams tend to spend about a third of their day on events that don’t pose any threat to their organization, and this has accelerated the adoption

Nov 10, 2023NewsroomCyber Warfare / Network Security The notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022. The findings come from Google’s Mandiant, which described the hack as a “multi-event cyber attack” leveraging a novel technique for impacting industrial control systems (ICS).

Nov 10, 2023NewsroomPrivacy / Cyber Espionage Urdu-speaking readers of a regional news website that caters to the Gilgit-Baltistan region have likely emerged as a target of a watering hole attack designed to deliver a previously undocumented Android spyware dubbed Kamran. The campaign, ESET has discovered, leverages Hunza News (urdu.hunzanews[.]net), which, when opened on a mobile

Nov 09, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Zero Day The threat actor known as Lace Tempest has been linked to the exploitation of a zero-day flaw in SysAid IT support software in limited attacks, according to new findings from Microsoft. Lace Tempest, which is known for distributing the Cl0p ransomware, has in the past leveraged zero-day flaws in

Nov 09, 2023NewsroomEndpoint Security / Malware A new malvertising campaign has been found to employ fake sites that masquerade as legitimate Windows news portal to propagate a malicious installer for a popular system profiling tool called CPU-Z. “This incident is a part of a larger malvertising campaign that targets other utilities like Notepad++, Citrix, and