All posts tagged "hacking news"

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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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  North Korean Hackers Turn to Credential Harvesting in Latest Wave of Cyberattacks

  A North Korean nation-state group notorious for crypto heists has been attributed to a new wave of malicious email attacks as part...

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  Chinese Hackers Utilize Golang Malware in DragonSpark Attacks to Evade Detection

  Organizations in East Asia are being targeted by a likely Chinese-speaking actor dubbed DragonSpark while employing uncommon tactics to go past security...

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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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  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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  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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  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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  Cacti Servers Under Attack as Majority Fail to Patch Critical Vulnerability

  A majority of internet-exposed Cacti servers have not been patched against a recently patched critical security vulnerability that has come under active...

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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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  IcedID Malware Strikes Again: Active Directory Domain Compromised in Under 24 Hours

  A recent IcedID malware attack enabled the threat actor to compromise the Active Directory domain of an unnamed target less than 24...

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  Twitter Denies Hacking Claims, Assures Leaked User Data Not from its System

  Twitter on Wednesday said that its investigation found “no evidence” that users’ data sold online was obtained by exploiting any security vulnerabilities...

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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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  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...

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  Italian Users Warned of Malware Attack Targeting Sensitive Information

  A new malware campaign has been observed targeting Italy with phishing emails designed to deploy an information stealer on compromised Windows systems....