All posts tagged "APT"

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  Cyber Crime

  Iranian APT group hits schools, universities in global spear phishing attacks

     The APT group known as Silent Librarian has increased its spear phishing attacks as schools and universities are back. The IT...

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  Geek

  Hackers exploit VPN, Windows flaws to influence US elections

     According to CISA, these flaws are centered around Fortinet FortiOS Secure Socket Layer (SSL) VPN and MobileIron platform. In 2016, there...

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  Exploitation Tools

  Arcane – Backdoor iOS Packages (Iphone-Arm)

    Arcane is a simple script designed to backdoor iOS packages (iphone-arm) and create the necessar y resources for APT repositories. It...

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  Malware

  Chinese APT Hackers Exploit MS Word Bug to Drop Malware Via Weaponized Coronavirus Lure Documents

  Researchers uncovered a new COVID-19 Campaign launching by Chinese based APT threat actors by taking advantage of the Coronavirus scare to deliver the...

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  Data Security

  Hackers are exploiting critical vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange server

  Microsoft has over 1.2 billion users worldwide and that makes it a lucrative target for cyber criminals. Volexity, a US-based cybersecurity firm...

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  Malware

  Fox Kitten – Iranian Malware Campaign Exploiting Vulnerable VPN Servers To Hack The Organizations Internal Networks

  Researchers discovered a widespread Iranian malware campaign called Fox Kitten that targeting the several organization networks by exploiting the Vulnerabilities in VPN....

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  Malware

  sLoad 2.0 -A PowerShell Based Malware Infecting Windows Systems With An Anti-Analysis Techniques – Microsoft APT

  Researchers from Microsoft discovered a new version of PowerShell Based Malware sLoad 2.0 that using Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) for malicious...

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  Malware

  Russian APT Hackers Group Attack Government & Military Network Using Weaponized Word Documents

  Researchers discovered a new malicious activity that involved by Russian APT hackers to attack Government and Military officials in Ukrainian entities. The...

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  Malware

  Infamous Lazarus APT Hackers Group Attack Mac Computers With Fileless Malware

  A Researcher from K7 Labs observed a new wave of fileless malware distributed by Lazarus APT Hackers Group to infects the MacOS...

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  Data Breach

  BMW Hacked – OceanLotus APT Hackers Group Penetrate The BMW Networks

  A well-known APT Hackers group “OceanLotus” breach the automobile giant BMW network, and successfully installed a hacking tool called “Cobalt Strike” which...

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  Malware

  DarkUniverse – A Weaponized APT Framework Found via Interesting Script that Used in NSA Hacking Attack

  Researchers found the existence of the new APT Framework named “DarkUniverse” using Tips from a script that used in the NSA breach...

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  Data Security

  Leveraging Automation to Boost Your Cybersecurity

  The growing variety and sophistication of cybersecurity threats have outpaced the development of conventional security tools. Apart from commoditized and automated hacking...

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  Malware

  FIN7 APT Hackers Added New Hacking Tools in Their Malware Arsenal to Evade AV Detection

  Researchers discovered 2 new hacking tools called BOOSTWRITE and RDFSNIFFER that were added in FIN7 groups malware arsenal with sophisticated capabilities and...

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  Malware

  Turla APT Hackers Using New Malware to Break The TLS Encrypted Web Traffic Communication

  Turla APT threat actors distribute a new malware called Reductor, a successor of COMpfun to compromise the TLS encrypted web traffic and...

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  Malware

  Chinese State-Sponsored ATP 10 Hackers Launching Cyber Attack On U.S Utilities

  Researchers discovered a new malware dubbed “LookBack” distributed via spear-phishing email campaign to attack the entities in the United States. Based on...

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  Cyber Crime

  The Logic of a Classic Advanced Persistent Threat Attack

  Story of an Advanced Persistent Threat attack against a large corporation that started with a series of blank emails. Advanced persistent threats...

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  Malware

  TA505 Hackers Group Modifies Remote Admin Tool as a Weaponized Hacking Tool To Attack Victims in the U.S, APAC, Europe

  Threat actors from TA505 hacking group conducting new wave attack by modifying the legitimate remote admin tool to Weaponized hacking tool that...

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  Malware

  MuddyWater APT’s BlackWater Malware Campaign Install Backdoor on Victims PC to Gain Remote Access & Evade Detection

  Researchers discovered a “Blackwater” malware campaign that suspected to associated with well known MuddyWater APT bypass the security control and install a...

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  News

  Are APT Campaigns Funded By Iran Intensifying?

  There are two types of APT (Advanced Persistent Threats), the first one is self-funded by the cybercriminal organizations themselves, the other one...

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  Malware

  Chinese Hackers Stole the NSA Hacking Tools a Year Before Shadow Brokers Leak Those Tools – A Shocking Report

  A new shocking report reveals that the Chinese State sponsored Buckeye APT hackers group stole and used the Equation Group tools prior...

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  Malware

  Sophisticated ‘TajMahal APT Framework’ Remained Undetected for 5 Years

  Cybersecurity researchers yesterday unveiled the existence of a highly sophisticated spyware framework that has been in operation for at least last 5...