All posts tagged "hacking news"

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  Iranian Hackers Exploit PLCs in Attack on Water Authority in U.S.

  The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed that it’s responding to a cyber attack that involved the active exploitation of...

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  Stealthy Kamran Spyware Targeting Urdu-speaking Users in Gilgit-Baltistan

  Urdu-speaking readers of a regional news website that caters to the Gilgit-Baltistan region have likely emerged as a target of a watering...

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  Researchers Find 34 Windows Drivers Vulnerable to Full Device Takeover

  As many as 34 unique vulnerable Windows Driver Model (WDM) and Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF) drivers could be exploited by non-privileged threat...

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  Alert: F5 Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting BIG-IP Vulnerability

  F5 is warning of active abuse of a critical security flaw in BIG-IP less than a week after its public disclosure, resulting...

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  Hackers Using MSIX App Packages to Infect Windows PCs with GHOSTPULSE Malware

  A new cyber attack campaign has been observed using spurious MSIX Windows app package files for popular software such as Google Chrome,...

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  Malvertisers Using Google Ads to Target Users Searching for Popular Software

  Details have emerged about a malvertising campaign that leverages Google Ads to direct users searching for popular software to fictitious landing pages...

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  ExelaStealer: A New Low-Cost Cybercrime Weapon Emerges

  A new information stealer named ExelaStealer has become the latest entrant to an already crowded landscape filled with various off-the-shelf malware designed...

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  Pro-Russian Hackers Exploiting Recent WinRAR Vulnerability in New Campaign

  Pro-Russian hacking groups have exploited a recently disclosed security vulnerability in the WinRAR archiving utility as part of a phishing campaign designed...

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  Researchers Uncover Malware Posing as WordPress Caching Plugin

  Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new sophisticated strain of malware that masquerades as a WordPress plugin to stealthily create administrator...

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  LUCR-3: Scattered Spider Getting SaaS-y in the Cloud

  LUCR-3 overlaps with groups such as Scattered Spider, Oktapus, UNC3944, and STORM-0875 and is a financially motivated attacker that leverages the Identity...

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  Cybercriminals Using New ASMCrypt Malware Loader to Fly Under the Radar

  Threat actors are selling a new crypter and loader called ASMCrypt, which has been described as an “evolved version” of another loader...

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  China-Linked Budworm Targeting Middle Eastern Telco and Asian Government Agencies

  Government and telecom entities have been subjected to a new wave of attacks by a China-linked threat actor tracked as Budworm using...

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  New ZenRAT Malware Targeting Windows Users via Fake Password Manager Software

  A new malware strain called ZenRAT has emerged in the wild that’s distributed via bogus installation packages of the Bitwarden password manager....

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  From Watering Hole to Spyware: EvilBamboo Targets Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Taiwanese

  Tibetan, Uyghur, and Taiwanese individuals and organizations are the targets of a persistent campaign orchestrated by a threat actor codenamed EvilBamboo to...

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  Sophisticated Phishing Campaign Targeting Chinese Users with ValleyRAT and Gh0st RAT

  Chinese-language speakers have been increasingly targeted as part of multiple email phishing campaigns that aim to distribute various malware families such as...

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  Earth Lusca’s New SprySOCKS Linux Backdoor Targets Government Entities

  The China-linked threat actor known as Earth Lusca has been observed targeting government entities using a never-before-seen Linux backdoor called SprySOCKS. Earth...

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  Cybercriminals Combine Phishing and EV Certificates to Deliver Ransomware Payloads

  The threat actors behind RedLine and Vidar information stealers have been observed pivoting to ransomware through phishing campaigns that spread initial payloads...

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  Rust-Written 3AM Ransomware: A Sneak Peek into a New Malware Family

  A new ransomware family called 3AM has emerged in the wild after it was detected in a single incident in which an...

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  North Korean Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Bug to Target Cybersecurity Researchers

  Threat actors associated with North Korea are continuing to target the cybersecurity community using a zero-day bug in an unspecified software over...

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  Alert: Phishing Campaigns Deliver New SideTwist Backdoor and Agent Tesla Variant

  The Iranian threat actor tracked as APT34 has been linked to a new phishing attack that leads to the deployment of a...

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  Vietnamese Cybercriminals Targeting Facebook Business Accounts with Malvertising

  Malicious actors associated with the Vietnamese cybercrime ecosystem are leveraging advertising-as-a-vector on social media platforms such as Meta-owned Facebook to distribute malware....