All posts tagged "malware"

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  Researchers Uncover Connection b/w Moses Staff and Emerging Abraham’s Ax Hacktivists Group

  New research has linked the operations of a politically motivated hacktivist group known as Moses Staff to another nascent threat actor named...

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  Emotet Malware Makes a Comeback with New Evasion Techniques

  The Emotet malware operation has continued to refine its tactics in an effort to fly under the radar, while also acting as...

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  Samsung Galaxy Store App Found Vulnerable to Sneaky App Installs and Fraud

  Two security flaws have been disclosed in Samsung’s Galaxy Store app for Android that could be exploited by a local attacker to...

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  Roaming Mantis Spreading Mobile Malware That Hijacks Wi-Fi Routers’ DNS Settings

  Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known...

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  Gamaredon Group Launches Cyberattacks Against Ukraine Using Telegram

  The Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Gamaredon has continued its digital onslaught against Ukraine, with recent attacks leveraging the popular...

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  Android Users Beware: New Hook Malware with RAT Capabilities Emerges

  The threat actor behind the BlackRock and ERMAC Android banking trojans has unleashed yet another malware for rent called Hook that introduces...

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  New Research Delves into the World of Malicious LNK Files and Hackers Behind Them

  Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging malicious LNK files as an initial access method to download and execute payloads such as Bumblebee, IcedID, and...

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  Bitzlato Crypto Exchange Founder Arrested for Aiding Cybercriminals

  The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the arrest of Anatoly Legkodymov (aka Gandalf and Tolik), the cofounder of Hong...

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  Earth Bogle Campaign Unleashes NjRAT Trojan on Middle East and North Africa

  An ongoing campaign dubbed Earth Bogle is leveraging geopolitical-themed lures to deliver the NjRAT remote access trojan to victims across the Middle...

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  Hackers Can Abuse Legitimate GitHub Codespaces Feature to Deliver Malware

  New research has found that it is possible for threat actors to abuse a legitimate feature in GitHub Codespaces to deliver malware...

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  Researchers Uncover 3 PyPI Packages Spreading Malware to Developer Systems

  A threat actor by the name Lolip0p has uploaded three rogue packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed...

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  Raccoon and Vidar Stealers Spreading via Massive Network of Fake Cracked Software

  A “large and resilient infrastructure” comprising over 250 domains is being used to distribute information-stealing malware such as Raccoon and Vidar since...

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  New Backdoor Created Using Leaked CIA’s Hive Malware Discovered in the Wild

  Unidentified threat actors have deployed a new backdoor that borrows its features from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s Hive multi-platform malware...

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  Malware Attack on CircleCI Engineer’s Laptop Leads to Recent Security Incident

  DevOps platform CircleCI on Friday disclosed that unidentified threat actors compromised an employee’s laptop and leveraged malware to steal their two-factor authentication-backed...

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  Beware: Tainted VPNs Being Used to Spread EyeSpy Surveillanceware

  Tainted VPN installers are being used to deliver a piece of surveillanceware dubbed EyeSpy as part of a malware campaign that started...

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  Cybercriminals Using Polyglot Files in Malware Distribution to Fly Under the Radar

  Remote access trojans such as StrRAT and Ratty are being distributed as a combination of polyglot and malicious Java archive (JAR) files,...

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  New Analysis Reveals Raspberry Robin Can be Repurposed by Other Threat Actors

  A new analysis of Raspberry Robin’s attack infrastructure has revealed that it’s possible for other threat actors to repurpose the infections for...

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  Australian Healthcare Sector Targeted in Latest Gootkit Malware Attacks

  A recent wave of Gootkit malware loader attacks has targeted the Australian healthcare sector by leveraging legitimate tools like VLC Media Player....

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  Dark Pink APT Group Targets Governments and Military in APAC Region

  Government and military organizations in the Asia-Pacific region are being targeted by a previously unknown advanced persistent threat (APT) actor, per the...

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  Microsoft Issues January 2023 Patch Tuesday Updates, Warns of Zero-Day Exploit

  The first Patch Tuesday fixes shipped by Microsoft for 2023 have addressed a total of 98 security flaws, including one bug that...

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  StrongPity Hackers Distribute Trojanized Telegram App to Target Android Users

  The advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as StrongPity has targeted Android users with a trojanized version of the Telegram app through...