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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given a November 17, 2023, deadline for federal agencies and organizations to apply mitigations to secure against a number of security flaws in Juniper Junos OS that came to light in August. The agency on Monday added five vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, […]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented advanced backdoor dubbed Deadglyph employed by a threat actor known as Stealth Falcon as part of a cyber espionage campaign. “Deadglyph’s architecture is unusual as it consists of cooperating components – one a native x64 binary, the other a .NET assembly,” ESET said in a new report shared […]
Just a few short years ago, lateral movement was a tactic confined to top APT cybercrime organizations and nation-state operators. Today, however, it has become a commoditized tool, well within the skillset of any ransomware threat actor. This makes real-time detection and prevention of lateral movement a necessity to organizations of all sizes and across […]
The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been observed shifting its focus and rapidly evolving its tools and tactics as part of a long-running campaign called DeathNote. While the nation-state adversary is known for persistently singling out the cryptocurrency sector, recent attacks have also targeted automotive, academic, and defense sectors in […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new advisory about Royal ransomware, which emerged in the threat landscape last year. “After gaining access to victims’ networks, Royal actors disable antivirus software and exfiltrate large amounts of data before ultimately deploying the ransomware and encrypting the systems,” CISA said. The custom ransomware […]
On the 30th of January, 2023, reports began to surface about a newly discovered vulnerability that affects QNAP devices. Although there is limited information regarding the vulnerability’s specifics, it has been fixed in QTS version 5.0.1.2234 and QuTS Hero version h5.0.1.2248 and affects QNAP QTS devices running versions older than 5.0.1.2234 and QuTS Hero versions […]
Critical flaws that affect many ThinkBook, IdeaPad, and Yoga laptop models have been resolved by Lenovo and may have allowed an attacker to disable UEFI Secure Boot. Researchers from ESET found these flaws in drivers in several Lenovo systems and informed the computer maker of their discovery. ESET published a link to a Twitter thread by […]
QNAP Systems, Inc found a new DEADBOLT ransomware attacks that exploits zero-day vulnerability in Photo Station. QNAP urges all QNAP NAS users to update Photo Station to the latest available version. “QNAP® Systems, Inc. today detected the security threat DEADBOLT leveraging exploitation of Photo Station vulnerability to encrypt QNAP NAS that are directly connected to […]
QNAP has issued a new advisory urging users of its network-attached storage (NAS) devices to upgrade to the latest version of Photo Station following yet another wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks in the wild by exploiting a zero-day flaw in the software. The Taiwanese company said it detected the attacks on September 3 and that […]
It is well known that Meta has implemented sophisticated technology to monitor private messages sent through Facebook and Instagram in order to identify patterns of harmful content such as child pornography, harassment or sale of narcotics. While this AI-powered technology has helped prevent hundreds of criminal practices, nothing in the world is foolproof. On Wednesday, […]
Taiwanese network-attached storage (NAS) devices maker QNAP on Thursday warned its customers of a fresh wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks. The intrusions are said to have targeted TS-x51 series and TS-x53 series appliances running on QTS 4.3.6 and QTS 4.4.1, according to its product security incident response team. “QNAP urges all NAS users to check […]
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reports that it has begun an investigation into alleged cyberattacks that would have compromised up to 16 databases of federal agencies. According to KrebsOnSecurity researchers, this incident could be related to a cybercriminal group whose members pose as law enforcement officers in order to access sensitive information. A few […]
The threat actor behind the prolific Emotet botnet is testing new attack methods on a small scale before co-opting them into their larger volume malspam campaigns, potentially in response to Microsoft’s move to disable Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across its products. Calling the new activity a “departure” from the group’s typical […]
ASUSTOR network-attached storage (NAS) devices have become the latest victim of Deadbolt ransomware, less than a month after similar attacks singled out QNAP NAS appliances. In response to the infections, the company has released firmware updates (ADM 4.0.4.RQO2) to “fix related security issues.” The company is also urging users to take the following actions to […]
This Thursday night, multiple Iranian state TV channels broadcasted footage showing the leaders of an exiled dissident group and explicitly calling for the death of the country’s supreme leader, an incident that local authorities described as a cyberattack. For quite a few seconds these images flashed on the screens, interrupting the broadcast to show the […]
Taiwanese company QNAP has warned customers to secure network-attached storage (NAS) appliances and routers against a new ransomware variant called DeadBolt. “DeadBolt has been widely targeting all NAS exposed to the Internet without any protection and encrypting users’ data for Bitcoin ransom,” the company said. “QNAP urges all QNAP NAS users to […] immediately update […]
On the morning of Monday 3rd, Jan 2022, hackers managed to deface the official website of Jerusalem Post and compromise Maariv’s Twitter account. Two years ago, Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian general was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq, Baghdad. Soleimani was the head of the Quds Force, which is Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ […]
China’s internet regulator, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), has temporarily suspended a partnership with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing subsidiary of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, for six months on account of the fact that it failed to promptly inform the government about a critical security vulnerability affecting the broadly used Log4j logging […]
The operators of TrickBot malware have infected an estimated 140,000 victims across 149 countries a little over a year after attempts were to dismantle its infrastructure, even as the malware is fast becoming an entry point for Emotet, another botnet that was taken down at the start of 2021. Most of the victims detected since […]
A victim of identity theft tells us how criminals used his identity to commit fraud and what it took to put his life back in order