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The notorious North Korea-linked threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been attributed to a new global campaign that involves the opportunistic exploitation of security flaws in Log4j to deploy previously undocumented remote access trojans (RATs) on compromised hosts. Cisco Talos is tracking the activity under the name Operation Blacksmith, noting the use of […]
The infamous Lazarus Group actor has been targeting vulnerable versions of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) servers as an initial breach route to deploy malware on targeted systems. The findings come from the AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC), which detailed the advanced persistent threat’s (APT) continued abuse of DLL side-loading techniques to run arbitrary […]
The former Navy Nuclear engineer and his wife used a bubble gum package and peanut butter sandwich to hide SD card with sensitive data and sell it to undercover FBI agents. According to a press release from the US Department of Justice (DoJ), the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) collaborated to arrest […]
Cybereason, an Israeli-US security firm based in Boston, has reported that certain nation-state hackers managed to compromise the systems of no less than ten cellular carriers across the globe to steal metadata of specific users. Without naming anyone, the company claims that the targeted users and the attackers both belong to China. The campaign is […]
Israeli authorities have arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly stealing secrets of the NSO Group, a Herzliya-based firm that specializes in developing spyware and help governments to spy on targets. The firm claims to provide “authorized governments with technology that helps them combat terror and crime.” The man (whose name has not been revealed) worked as a […]
Israeli members of the armed forces have remained under the radar of cyber spies and espionage actors for a very long time. However, In July last year, over a hundred officials were targeted by malicious cyber-criminals as they managed to compromise their cell phones/tablets and infiltrated data and transferred it to the command and control […]
Short Bytes: The UN is expected to announce its decision on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s release on Friday. The whistleblower website has tweeted that the UN’s WGAD body will announce the immediate release of Mr. Assange. It should be noted that the WikiLeaks founder is currently living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The United Nations is set […]
Scarlet Mimic Espionage Malware Campaign Targets Activists and Minorities like Uyghur and Tibet — The Campaign Also targets Indian and Russian government agencies. Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 researchers have been following the four-year-long espionage campaign quite intensely, which was instigated by a group of hackers dubbed as Scarlet Mimic by the research team. As per their […]
A group of Chinese hackers have targeted a Taiwanese news organizations and the opposition Democratic Progressive Party in order to get the information on upcoming presidential and legislative election like the policies and speeches from the leaders participating in the elections. This report is the second part of the one revealed by FireEye last week […]
A website domain has been discovered by Google’s cyber-security team to be impersonating the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Registered on August 4, 2015, electronicfrontierfoundation.org has since been targeting unknown victims with a spear phishing attack and spreading malware into their systems. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/fake-bbc-website-lures-victims-with-charlie-hebdo-misinfo/”]Fake BBC Website lures victims with Charlie Hebdo misinformation[/must] Unfortunately, the domain seems […]
China to Use Stronger Weapons to Censor the Web and it is called Great Cannon — It can block websites and interrupt international traffic like no one else. Lately, China has been bombarding American websites with Internet traffic in a bid to take out such services that let China’s web users to view websites that […]