All posts tagged "malware"

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  Experts Find Strategic Similarities b/w NotPetya and WhisperGate Attacks on Ukraine

  Latest analysis into the wiper malware that targeted dozens of Ukrainian agencies earlier this month has revealed “strategic similarities” to NotPetya malware...

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  Chinese Hackers Spotted Using New UEFI Firmware Implant in Targeted Attacks

  A previously undocumented firmware implant deployed to maintain stealthy persistence as part of a targeted espionage campaign has been linked to the...

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  Google Details Two Zero-Day Bugs Reported in Zoom Clients and MMR Servers

  An exploration of zero-click attack surface for the popular video conferencing solution Zoom has yielded two previously undisclosed security vulnerabilities that could...

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  Russian Hackers Heavily Using Malicious Traffic Direction System to Distribute Malware

  Potential connections between a subscription-based crimeware-as-a-service (CaaS) solution and a cracked copy of Cobalt Strike have been established in what the researchers...

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  DDoS IRC Bot Malware Spreading Through Korean WebHard Platforms

  An IRC (Internet Relay Chat) bot strain programmed in GoLang is being used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting users in...

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  Ukraine: Recent Cyber Attacks Part of Wider Plot to Sabotage Critical Infrastructure

  The coordinated cyberattacks targeting Ukrainian government websites and the deployment of a data-wiper malware called WhisperGate on select government systems are part...

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  Earth Lusca Hackers Aimed at High-Value Targets in Government and Private Sectors

  An elusive threat actor called Earth Lusca has been observed striking organizations across the world as part of what appears to be...

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  A New Destructive Malware Targeting Ukrainian Government and Business Entities

  Cybersecurity teams from Microsoft on Saturday disclosed they identified evidence of a new destructive malware operation targeting government, non-profit, and information technology...

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  Russia Arrests REvil Ransomware Gang Responsible for High-Profile Cyber Attacks

  In an unprecedented move, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the country’s principal security agency, on Friday disclosed that it arrested several members...

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  North Korean Hackers Stole Millions from Cryptocurrency Startups Worldwide

  Operators associated with the Lazarus sub-group BlueNoroff have been linked to a series of cyberattacks targeting small and medium-sized companies worldwide with...

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  U.K. Hacker Jailed for Spying on Children and Downloading Indecent Images

  A man from the U.K. city of Nottingham has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for illegally breaking into...

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  GootLoader Hackers Targeting Employees of Law and Accounting Firms

  Operators of the GootLoader campaign are setting their sights on employees of accounting and law firms as part of a fresh onslaught...

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  Researchers Decrypted Qakbot Banking Trojan’s Encrypted Registry Keys

  Cybersecurity researchers have decoded the mechanism by which the versatile Qakbot banking trojan handles the insertion of encrypted configuration data into the...

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  Iranian Hackers Exploit Log4j Vulnerability to Deploy PowerShell Backdoor

  An Iranian state-sponsored actor has been observed scanning and attempting to abuse the Log4Shell flaw in publicly-exposed Java applications to deploy a...

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  Hackers Use Cloud Services to Distribute Nanocore, Netwire, and AsyncRAT Malware

  Threat actors are actively incorporating public cloud services from Amazon and Microsoft into their malicious campaigns to deliver commodity remote access trojans...

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  New SysJoker Espionage Malware Targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux Users

  A new cross-platform backdoor called “SysJoker” has been observed targeting machines running Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems as part of an...

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  Researchers Find Bugs in Over A Dozen Widely Used URL Parser Libraries

  A study of 16 different Uniform Resource Locator (URL) parsing libraries has unearthed inconsistencies and confusions that could be exploited to bypass...

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  Abcbot Botnet Linked to Operators of Xanthe Cryptomining malware

  New research into the infrastructure behind an emerging DDoS botnet named Abcbot has uncovered “clear” links with a cryptocurrency-mining botnet attack that...

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  BADNEWS! Patchwork APT Hackers Score Own Goal in Recent Malware Attacks

  Threat hunters have shed light on the tactics, techniques, and procedures embraced by an Indian-origin hacking group called Patchwork as part of...

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  9-year-old Windows flaw abused to drop ZLoader malware in 111 countries

  The vulnerability was identified and fixed in 2013 but in 2014 Microsoft revised the fix allowing Malsmoke hackers in 2022 to spread...

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  North Korean Hackers Start New Year with Attacks on Russian Foreign Ministry

  A North Korean cyberespionage group named Konni has been linked to a series of targeted attacks aimed at the Russian Federation’s Ministry...