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FBI Seizes BreachForums Again, Urges Users to Report Criminal Activity

By: Newsroom β€” May 15th 2024 at 17:52
Law enforcement agencies have officially seized control of the notorious BreachForums platform, an online bazaar known for peddling stolen data, for the second time within a year. The website ("breachforums[.]st") has been replaced by a seizure banner stating the clearnet cybercrime forum is under the control of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).  The operation is the
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Microsoft Patches 61 Flaws, Including Two Actively Exploited Zero-Days

By: Newsroom β€” May 15th 2024 at 07:17
Microsoft has addressed a total of 61 new security flaws in its software as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for May 2024, including two zero-days which have been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 61 flaws, one is rated Critical, 59 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. This is in addition to 30 vulnerabilities&
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The 2024 Browser Security Report Uncovers How Every Web Session Could be a Security Minefield

By: The Hacker News β€” May 13th 2024 at 12:06
With the browser becoming the most prevalent workspace in the enterprise, it is also turning into a popular attack vector for cyber attackers. From account takeovers to malicious extensions to phishing attacks, the browser is a means for stealing sensitive data and accessing organizational systems. Security leaders who are planning their security architecture
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Malicious Python Package Hides Sliver C2 Framework in Fake Requests Library Logo

By: Newsroom β€” May 13th 2024 at 06:18
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a malicious Python package that purports to be an offshoot of the popular requests library and has been found concealing a Golang-version of the Sliver command-and-control (C2) framework within a PNG image of the project's logo.  The package employing this steganographic trickery is requests-darwin-lite, which has been
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Kremlin-Backed APT28 Targets Polish Institutions in Large-Scale Malware Campaign

By: Newsroom β€” May 9th 2024 at 15:20
Polish government institutions have been targeted as part of a large-scale malware campaign orchestrated by a Russia-linked nation-state actor called APT28. "The campaign sent emails with content intended to arouse the recipient's interest and persuade him to click on the link," the computer emergency response team, CERT Polska, said in a Wednesday bulletin. Clicking on the link
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Microsoft Outlook Flaw Exploited by Russia's APT28 to Hack Czech, German Entities

By: Newsroom β€” May 4th 2024 at 08:38
Czechia and Germany on Friday revealed that they were the target of a long-term cyber espionage campaign conducted by the Russia-linked nation-state actor known as APT28, drawing condemnation from the European Union (E.U.), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the U.K., and the U.S. The Czech Republic's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), in a statement, said some unnamed
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Dropbox Discloses Breach of Digital Signature Service Affecting All Users

By: Newsroom β€” May 2nd 2024 at 10:19
Cloud storage services provider Dropbox on Wednesday disclosed that Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign) was breached by unidentified threat actors, who accessed emails, usernames, and general account settings associated with all users of the digital signature product. The company, in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), said it became aware of the "
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Android Malware Wpeeper Uses Compromised WordPress Sites to Hide C2 Servers

By: Newsroom β€” May 1st 2024 at 13:41
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented malware targeting Android devices that uses compromised WordPress sites as relays for its actual command-and-control (C2) servers for detection evasion. The malware, codenamed Wpeeper, is an ELF binary that leverages the HTTPS protocol to secure its C2 communications. "Wpeeper is a typical backdoor Trojan for Android
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New U.K. Law Bans Default Passwords on Smart Devices Starting April 2024

By: Newsroom β€” April 30th 2024 at 05:57
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is calling on manufacturers of smart devices to comply with new legislation that prohibits them from using default passwords, effective April 29, 2024. "The law, known as the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure act (or PSTI act), will help consumers to choose smart devices that have been designed to
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Hackers Exploiting WP-Automatic Plugin Bug to Create Admin Accounts on WordPress Sites

By: Newsroom β€” April 26th 2024 at 05:49
Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw in the ValvePress Automatic plugin for WordPress that could allow site takeovers. The shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2024-27956, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10. It impacts all versions of the plugin prior to 3.92.0. The issue has been resolved in version 3.92.1 released on February 27, 2024,
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State-Sponsored Hackers Exploit Two Cisco Zero-Day Vulnerabilities for Espionage

By: Newsroom β€” April 25th 2024 at 05:50
A new malware campaign leveraged two zero-day flaws in Cisco networking gear to deliver custom malware and facilitate covert data collection on target environments. Cisco Talos, which dubbed the activity ArcaneDoor, attributed it as the handiwork of a previously undocumented sophisticated state-sponsored actor it tracks under the name UAT4356 (aka Storm-1849 by Microsoft). "UAT4356
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ToddyCat Hacker Group Uses Advanced Tools for Industrial-Scale Data Theft

By: Newsroom β€” April 22nd 2024 at 15:11
The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been observed using a wide range of tools to retain access to compromised environments and steal valuable data. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky characterized the adversary as relying on various programs to harvest data on an "industrial scale" from primarily governmental organizations, some of them defense related, located in
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Russian APT Deploys New 'Kapeka' Backdoor in Eastern European Attacks

By: Newsroom β€” April 17th 2024 at 13:32
A previously undocumented "flexible" backdoor called Kapeka has been "sporadically" observed in cyber attacks targeting Eastern Europe, including Estonia and Ukraine, since at least mid-2022. The findings come from Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure, which attributed the malware to the Russia-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as Sandworm (aka APT44 or
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Palo Alto Networks Releases Urgent Fixes for Exploited PAN-OS Vulnerability

By: Newsroom β€” April 15th 2024 at 08:17
Palo Alto Networks has released hotfixes to address a maximum-severity security flaw impacting PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-3400 (CVSS score: 10.0), the critical vulnerability is a case of command injection in the GlobalProtect feature that an unauthenticated attacker could weaponize to execute arbitrary code with root
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U.S. Treasury Hamas Spokesperson for Cyber Influence Operations

By: Newsroom β€” April 13th 2024 at 13:58
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday announced sanctions against an official associated with Hamas for his involvement in cyber influence operations. Hudhayfa Samir β€˜Abdallah al-Kahlut, 39, also known as Abu Ubaida, has served as the public spokesperson of Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, since at least 2007. "He publicly
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Hackers Deploy Python Backdoor in Palo Alto Zero-Day Attack

By: Newsroom β€” April 13th 2024 at 08:25
Threat actors have been exploiting the newly disclosed zero-day flaw in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software dating back to March 26, 2024, nearly three weeks before it came to light yesterday. The network security company's Unit 42 division is tracking the activity under the name Operation MidnightEclipse, attributing it as the work of a single threat actor of
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Zero-Day Alert: Critical Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Flaw Under Active Attack

By: Newsroom β€” April 12th 2024 at 08:56
Palo Alto Networks is warning that a critical flaw impacting PAN-OS software used in its GlobalProtect gateways is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-3400, the issue has a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity. "A command injection vulnerability in the GlobalProtect feature of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software for specific PAN-OS versions and distinct
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Mispadu Trojan Targets Europe, Thousands of Credentials Compromised

By: Newsroom β€” April 3rd 2024 at 09:32
The banking trojan known as Mispadu has expanded its focus beyond Latin America (LATAM) and Spanish-speaking individuals to target users in Italy, Poland, and Sweden. Targets of the ongoing campaign include entities spanning finance, services, motor vehicle manufacturing, law firms, and commercial facilities, according to Morphisec. "Despite the geographic expansion, Mexico remains the
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Finland Blames Chinese Hacking Group APT31 for Parliament Cyber Attack

By: Newsroom β€” March 28th 2024 at 16:50
The Police of Finland (aka Poliisi) has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the country's Parliament in 2020. The intrusion, per the authorities, is said to have occurred between fall 2020 and early 2021. The agency described the ongoing criminal probe as both demanding and time-consuming, involving extensive analysis of a "
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Key Lesson from Microsoft’s Password Spray Hack: Secure Every Account

By: The Hacker News β€” March 25th 2024 at 11:37
In January 2024, Microsoft discovered they’d been the victim of a hack orchestrated by Russian-state hackers Midnight Blizzard (sometimes known as Nobelium). The concerning detail about this case is how easy it was to breach the software giant. It wasn’t a highly technical hack that exploited a zero-day vulnerability – the hackers used a simple password spray attack to take control of
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Google Introduces Enhanced Real-Time URL Protection for Chrome Users

By: Newsroom β€” March 15th 2024 at 07:50
Google on Thursday announced an enhanced version of Safe Browsing to provide real-time, privacy-preserving URL protection and safeguard users from visiting potentially malicious sites. β€œThe Standard protection mode for Chrome on desktop and iOS will check sites against Google’s server-side list of known bad sites in real-time,” Google’s Jonathan Li and Jasika Bawa said. β€œIf we
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Malware Campaign Exploits Popup Builder WordPress Plugin to Infect 3,900+ Sites

By: Newsroom β€” March 12th 2024 at 09:15
A new malware campaign is leveraging a high-severity security flaw in the Popup Builder plugin for WordPress to inject malicious JavaScript code. According to Sucuri, the campaign has infected more than 3,900 sites over the past three weeks. "These attacks are orchestrated from domains less than a month old, with registrations dating back to February 12th, 2024," security researcher
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QEMU Emulator Exploited as Tunneling Tool to Breach Company Network

By: Newsroom β€” March 8th 2024 at 07:48
Threat actors have been observed leveraging the QEMU open-source hardware emulator as tunneling software during a cyber attack targeting an unnamed "large company" to connect to their infrastructure. While a number of legitimate tunneling tools like Chisel, FRP, ligolo, ngrok, and Plink have been used by adversaries to their advantage, the development marks the first QEMU that has been
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Exit Scam: BlackCat Ransomware Group Vanishes After $22 Million Payout

By: Newsroom β€” March 6th 2024 at 15:03
The threat actors behind the BlackCat ransomware have shut down their darknet website and likely pulled an exit scam after uploading a bogus law enforcement seizure banner. "ALPHV/BlackCat did not get seized. They are exit scamming their affiliates," security researcher Fabian Wosar said. "It is blatantly obvious when you check the source code of the new takedown notice." "There
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Mitigating Lateral Movement with Zero Trust Access

By: Andrew Akers β€” March 5th 2024 at 13:00

Security service edge (SSE) technology was created to protect remote and branch users with a unified, cloud-delivered security stack. To understand how SSE solutions protect organizations and their… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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TimbreStealer Malware Spreading via Tax-themed Phishing Scam Targets IT Users

By: Newsroom β€” February 28th 2024 at 07:43
Mexican users have been targeted with tax-themed phishing lures at least since November 2023 to distribute a previously undocumented Windows malware called TimbreStealer. Cisco Talos, which discovered the activity, described the authors as skilled and that the "threat actor has previously used similar tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) to distribute a banking trojan known
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Banking Trojans Target Latin America and Europe Through Google Cloud Run

By: Newsroom β€” February 26th 2024 at 09:51
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a spike in email phishing campaigns that are weaponizing the Google Cloud Run service to deliver various banking trojans such as Astaroth (aka Guildma), Mekotio, and Ousaban (aka Javali) to targets across Latin America (LATAM) and Europe. "The infection chains associated with these malware families feature the use of malicious
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Learn How to Build an Incident Response Playbook Against Scattered Spider in Real-Time

By: The Hacker News β€” February 20th 2024 at 10:53
In the tumultuous landscape of cybersecurity, the year 2023 left an indelible mark with the brazen exploits of the Scattered Spider threat group. Their attacks targeted the nerve centers of major financial and insurance institutions, culminating in what stands as one of the most impactful ransomware assaults in recent memory.  When organizations have no response plan in place for such an
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Iran and Hezbollah Hackers Launch Attacks to Influence Israel-Hamas Narrative

By: Newsroom β€” February 20th 2024 at 06:01
Hackers backed by Iran and Hezbollah staged cyber attacks designed to undercut public support for the Israel-Hamas war after October 2023. This includes destructive attacks against key Israeli organizations, hack-and-leak operations targeting entities in Israel and the U.S., phishing campaigns designed to steal intelligence, and information operations to turn public opinion against Israel. Iran
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Microsoft, OpenAI Warn of Nation-State Hackers Weaponizing AI for Cyber Attacks

By: Newsroom β€” February 14th 2024 at 14:39
Nation-state actors associated with Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China are experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to complement their ongoing cyber attack operations. The findings come from a report published by Microsoft in collaboration with OpenAI, both of which said they disrupted efforts made by five state-affiliated actors that used its
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U.S. DoJ Dismantles Warzone RAT Infrastructure, Arrests Key Operators

By: Newsroom β€” February 11th 2024 at 10:54
The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) on Friday announced the seizure of online infrastructure that was used to sell a remote access trojan (RAT) called Warzone RAT. The domains – www.warzone[.]ws and three others – were "used to sell computer malware used by cybercriminals to secretly access and steal data from victims' computers," the DoJ said. Alongside the takedown, the
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After FBI Takedown, KV-Botnet Operators Shift Tactics in Attempt to Bounce Back

By: Newsroom β€” February 7th 2024 at 15:11
The threat actors behind the KV-botnet made "behavioral changes" to the malicious network as U.S. law enforcement began issuing commands to neutralize the activity. KV-botnet is the name given to a network of compromised small office and home office (SOHO) routers and firewall devices across the world, with one specific cluster acting as a covert data transfer system for other Chinese
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Patchwork Using Romance Scam Lures to Infect Android Devices with VajraSpy Malware

By: Newsroom β€” February 5th 2024 at 13:18
The threat actor known as Patchwork likely used romance scam lures to trap victims in Pakistan and India, and infect their Android devices with a remote access trojan called VajraSpy. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET said it uncovered 12 espionage apps, six of which were available for download from the official Google Play Store and were collectively downloaded more than 1,400 times between
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New Mispadu Banking Trojan Exploiting Windows SmartScreen Flaw

By: Newsroom β€” February 5th 2024 at 03:45
The threat actors behind the Mispadu banking Trojan have become the latest to exploit a now-patched Windows SmartScreen security bypass flaw to compromise users in Mexico. The attacks entail a new variant of the malware that was first observed in 2019, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said in a report published last week. Propagated via phishing mails, Mispadu is a Delphi-based information stealer
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U.S. Sanctions 6 Iranian Officials for Critical Infrastructure Cyber Attacks

By: Newsroom β€” February 3rd 2024 at 07:33
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against six officials associated with the Iranian intelligence agency for attacking critical infrastructure entities in the U.S. and other countries. The officials include Hamid Reza Lashgarian, Mahdi Lashgarian, Hamid Homayunfal, Milad Mansuri, Mohammad Bagher Shirinkar, and Reza Mohammad Amin
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AnyDesk Hacked: Popular Remote Desktop Software Mandates Password Reset

By: Newsroom β€” February 3rd 2024 at 03:55
Remote desktop software maker AnyDesk disclosed on Friday that it suffered a cyber attack that led to a compromise of its production systems. The German company said the incident, which it discovered following a security audit, is not a ransomware attack and that it has notified relevant authorities. "We have revoked all security-related certificates and systems have been remediated or replaced
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U.S. Feds Shut Down China-Linked "KV-Botnet" Targeting SOHO Routers

By: Newsroom β€” February 1st 2024 at 11:37
The U.S. government on Wednesday said it took steps to neutralize a botnet comprising hundreds of U.S.-based small office and home office (SOHO) routers hijacked by a China-linked state-sponsored threat actor called Volt Typhoon and blunt the impact posed by the hacking campaign. The existence of the botnet, dubbed KV-botnet, was first disclosed by the Black Lotus Labs team at
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Hackers Exploiting Ivanti VPN Flaws to Deploy KrustyLoader Malware

By: Newsroom β€” January 31st 2024 at 07:23
A pair of recently disclosed zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) virtual private network (VPN) devices have been exploited to deliver a Rust-based payload called KrustyLoader that's used to drop the open-source Sliver adversary simulation tool. The security vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-46805 (CVSS score: 8.2) and CVE-2024-21887 (CVSS score: 9.1), could be abused
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Brazilian Feds Dismantle Grandoreiro Banking Trojan, Arresting Top Operatives

By: Newsroom β€” January 30th 2024 at 16:43
A Brazilian law enforcement operation has led to the arrest of several Brazilian operators in charge of the Grandoreiro malware. The Federal Police of Brazil said it served five temporary arrest warrants and 13 search and seizure warrants in the states of SΓ£o Paulo, Santa Catarina, ParΓ‘, GoiΓ‘s, and Mato Grosso. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which provided additional
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Microsoft Warns of Widening APT29 Espionage Attacks Targeting Global Orgs

By: Newsroom β€” January 26th 2024 at 06:03
Microsoft on Thursday said the Russian state-sponsored threat actors responsible for a cyber attack on its systems in late November 2023 have been targeting other organizations and that it's currently beginning to notify them. The development comes a day after Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) revealed that it had been the victim of an attack perpetrated by a hacking crew
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Kasseika Ransomware Using BYOVD Trick to Disarm Security Pre-Encryption

By: Newsroom β€” January 24th 2024 at 11:20
The ransomware group known as Kasseika has become the latest to leverage the Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack to disarm security-related processes on compromised Windows hosts, joining the likes of other groups like Akira, AvosLocker, BlackByte, and RobbinHood. The tactic allows "threat actors to terminate antivirus processes and services for the deployment of ransomware," Trend
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~40,000 Attacks in 3 Days: Critical Confluence RCE Under Active Exploitation

By: Newsroom β€” January 23rd 2024 at 09:34
Malicious actors have begun to actively exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server, within three days of public disclosure. Tracked as CVE-2023-22527 (CVSS score: 10.0), the vulnerability impacts out-of-date versions of the software, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution on susceptible
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CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Federal Agencies on Ivanti Zero-Day Exploits

By: Newsroom β€” January 20th 2024 at 04:31
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday issued an emergency directive urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to implement mitigations against two actively exploited zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and Ivanti Policy Secure (IPS) products. The development arrives as the vulnerabilities β€“ an authentication bypass
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Zero-Day Alert: Update Chrome Now to Fix New Actively Exploited Vulnerability

By: Newsroom β€” January 17th 2024 at 02:20
Google on Tuesday released updates to fix four security issues in its Chrome browser, including an actively exploited zero-day flaw. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-0519, concerns an out-of-bounds memory access in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, which can be weaponized by threat actors to trigger a crash. <!-- adsense --> "By reading out-of-bounds memory, an attacker might be able to
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DDoS Attacks on the Environmental Services Industry Surge by 61,839% in 2023

By: Newsroom β€” January 15th 2024 at 05:55
The environmental services industry witnessed an β€œunprecedented surge” in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, accounting for half of all its HTTP traffic. This marks a 61,839% increase in DDoS attack traffic year-over-year, web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare said in its DDoS threat report for 2023 Q4 published last week. β€œThis surge in cyber attacks coincided
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New Findings Challenge Attribution in Denmark's Energy Sector Cyberattacks

By: Newsroom β€” January 14th 2024 at 09:07
The cyber attacks targeting the energy sector in Denmark last year may not have had the involvement of the Russia-linked Sandworm hacking group,&nbsp;new findings&nbsp;from Forescout show. The intrusions, which&nbsp;targeted around 22 Danish energy organizations&nbsp;in May 2023, occurred in two distinct waves, one which exploited a security flaw in Zyxel firewall (CVE-2023-28771) and a
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New Python-based FBot Hacking Toolkit Aims at Cloud and SaaS Platforms

By: Newsroom β€” January 11th 2024 at 14:00
A new Python-based hacking tool called&nbsp;FBot&nbsp;has been uncovered targeting web servers, cloud services, content management systems (CMS), and SaaS platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft 365, PayPal, Sendgrid, and Twilio. β€œKey features include credential harvesting for spamming attacks, AWS account hijacking tools, and functions to enable attacks against PayPal and various
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Pro-Iranian Hacker Group Targeting Albania with No-Justice Wiper Malware

By: Newsroom β€” January 6th 2024 at 06:48
The&nbsp;recent wave of cyber attacks&nbsp;targeting Albanian organizations involved the use of a wiper called&nbsp;No-Justice. The&nbsp;findings&nbsp;come from cybersecurity company ClearSky, which said the Windows-based malware "crashes the operating system in a way that it cannot be rebooted." The intrusions have been attributed to an Iranian β€œpsychological operation group” known as Homeland
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Albanian Parliament and One Albania Telecom Hit by Cyber Attacks

By: Newsroom β€” December 29th 2023 at 13:57
The Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania have been targeted by cyber attacks, the country’s National Authority for Electronic Certification and Cyber Security (AKCESK) revealed this week. β€œThese infrastructures, under the legislation in force, are not currently classified as critical or important information infrastructure,” AKCESK&nbsp;said. One Albania, which has
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Iranian Hackers Using MuddyC2Go in Telecom Espionage Attacks Across Africa

By: Newsroom β€” December 19th 2023 at 11:41
The Iranian nation-state actor known as&nbsp;MuddyWater&nbsp;has leveraged a newly discovered command-and-control (C2) framework called MuddyC2Go in its attacks on the telecommunications sector in Egypt, Sudan, and Tanzania. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, is&nbsp;tracking&nbsp;the activity under the name Seedworm, which is also tracked under the monikers Boggy Serpens, Cobalt
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CISA Urges Manufacturers Eliminate Default Passwords to Thwart Cyber Threats

By: Newsroom β€” December 18th 2023 at 05:41
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is&nbsp;urging&nbsp;manufacturers to get rid of default passwords on internet-exposed systems altogether, citing severe risks that could be exploited by malicious actors to gain initial access to, and move laterally within, organizations. In an alert published last week, the agency called out Iranian threat actors affiliated with
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Major Cyber Attack Paralyzes Kyivstar - Ukraine's Largest Telecom Operator

By: Newsroom β€” December 13th 2023 at 10:18
Ukraine's biggest telecom operator Kyivstar has&nbsp;become&nbsp;the victim of a "powerful hacker attack,” disrupting customer&nbsp;access to mobile and internet services. "The cyberattack on Ukraine's #Kyivstar telecoms operator has impacted all regions of the country with high impact to the capital, metrics show, with knock-on impacts reported to air raid alert network and banking sector as
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Non-Human Access is the Path of Least Resistance: A 2023 Recap

By: The Hacker News β€” December 12th 2023 at 11:25
2023 has seen its fair share of cyber attacks, however there’s one attack vector that proves to be more prominent than others - non-human access. With&nbsp;11 high-profile attacks in 13 months&nbsp;and an ever-growing ungoverned attack surface, non-human identities are the new perimeter, and 2023 is only the beginning.&nbsp; Why non-human access is a cybercriminal’s paradise&nbsp; People always
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New Threat Actor 'AeroBlade' Emerges in Espionage Attack on U.S. Aerospace

By: Newsroom β€” December 5th 2023 at 07:55
A previously undocumented threat actor has been linked to a cyber attack targeting an aerospace organization in the U.S. as part of what's suspected to be a cyber espionage mission. The BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence team is tracking the activity cluster as&nbsp;AeroBlade. Its origin is currently unknown and it's not clear if the attack was successful. "The actor used spear-phishing
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Iranian Hackers Exploit PLCs in Attack on Water Authority in U.S.

By: Newsroom β€” November 29th 2023 at 13:02
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed that it's responding to a cyber attack that involved the active exploitation of Unitronics programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to target the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa in western Pennsylvania. The attack has been attributed to an Iranian-backed hacktivist collective known as Cyber Av3ngers. "Cyber threat
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New 'HrServ.dll' Web Shell Detected in APT Attack Targeting Afghan Government

By: Newsroom β€” November 25th 2023 at 05:08
An unspecified government entity in Afghanistan was targeted by a previously undocumented web shell called&nbsp;HrServ&nbsp;in what’s suspected to be an advanced persistent threat (APT) attack. The web shell, a dynamic-link library (DLL) named β€œhrserv.dll,” exhibits β€œsophisticated features such as custom encoding methods for client communication and in-memory execution,” Kaspersky security
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Mustang Panda Hackers Targets Philippines Government Amid South China Sea Tensions

By: Newsroom β€” November 21st 2023 at 06:58
The China-linked Mustang Panda actor has been linked to a cyber attack targeting a Philippines government entity amidΒ rising tensionsΒ between the two countries over the disputed South China Sea. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 attributed the adversarial collective to three campaigns in August 2023, primarily singling out organizations in the South Pacific. "The campaigns leveraged legitimate software
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Indian Hack-for-Hire Group Targeted U.S., China, and More for Over 10 Years

By: Newsroom β€” November 20th 2023 at 06:42
An Indian hack-for-hire group targeted the U.S., China, Myanmar, Pakistan, Kuwait, and other countries as part of a wide-ranging espionage, surveillance, and disruptive operation for over a decade. TheΒ Appin Software SecurityΒ (aka Appin Security Group), according to an in-depth analysis from SentinelOne, began as an educational startup offering offensive security training programs, while
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Russian Cyber Espionage Group Deploys LitterDrifter USB Worm in Targeted Attacks

By: Newsroom β€” November 18th 2023 at 06:32
Russian cyber espionage actors affiliated with the Federal Security Service (FSB) have been observed using a USB propagating worm calledΒ LitterDrifterΒ in attacks targeting Ukrainian entities. Check Point, whichΒ detailedΒ Gamaredon's (aka Aqua Blizzard, Iron Tilden, Primitive Bear, Shuckworm, and Winterflounder) latest tactics, branded the group as engaging in large-scale campaigns that are
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CISA and FBI Issue Warning About Rhysida Ransomware Double Extortion Attacks

By: Newsroom β€” November 16th 2023 at 12:03
The threat actors behind theΒ Rhysida ransomwareΒ engage in opportunistic attacks targeting organizations spanning various industry sectors. The advisory comes courtesy of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). "Observed as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS)
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