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2023-02-20 11:20:00 | Samsung Introduces New Feature to Protect Users from Zero-Click Malware Attacks (lien direct) | Samsung has announced a new feature called Message Guard that comes with safeguards to protect users from malware and spyware via what's referred to as zero-click attacks. The South Korean chaebol said the solution "preemptively" secures users' devices by "limiting exposure to invisible threats disguised as image attachments." The security feature, available on Samsung Messages and Google | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-02-18 14:51:00 | GoDaddy Discloses Multi-Year Security Breach Causing Malware Installations and Source Code Theft (lien direct) | Web hosting services provider GoDaddy on Friday disclosed a multi-year security breach that enabled unknown threat actors to install malware and siphon source code related to some of its services. The company attributed the campaign to a "sophisticated and organized group targeting hosting services." GoDaddy said in December 2022, it received an unspecified number of customer complaints about | Malware Threat | ★★★★ | |
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2023-02-17 21:21:00 | Experts Warn of RambleOn Android Malware Targeting South Korean Journalists (lien direct) | Suspected North Korean nation-state actors targeted a journalist in South Korea with a malware-laced Android app as part of a social engineering campaign. The findings come from South Korea-based non-profit Interlab, which coined the new malware RambleOn. The malicious functionalities include the "ability to read and leak target's contact list, SMS, voice call content, location and others from | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-02-16 19:12:00 | Hackers Using Google Ads to Spread FatalRAT Malware Disguised as Popular Apps (lien direct) | Chinese-speaking individuals in Southeast and East Asia are the targets of a new rogue Google Ads campaign that delivers remote access trojans such as FatalRAT to compromised machines. The attacks involve purchasing ad slots to appear in Google search results that direct users searching for popular applications to rogue websites hosting trojanized installers, ESET said in a report published | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-02-15 20:29:00 | North Korea\'s APT37 Targeting Southern Counterpart with New M2RAT Malware (lien direct) | The North Korea-linked threat actor tracked as APT37 has been linked to a piece of new malware dubbed M2RAT in attacks targeting its southern counterpart, suggesting continued evolution of the group's features and tactics. APT37, also tracked under the monikers Reaper, RedEyes, Ricochet Chollima, and ScarCruft, is linked to North Korea's Ministry of State Security (MSS) unlike the Lazarus and | Malware Threat Cloud | APT 38 APT 37 | ★★ |
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2023-02-15 19:03:00 | Financially Motivated Threat Actor Strikes with New Ransomware and Clipper Malware (lien direct) | A new financially motivated campaign that commenced in December 2022 has seen the unidentified threat actor behind it deploying a novel ransomware strain dubbed MortalKombat and a clipper malware known as Laplas. Cisco Talos said it "observed the actor scanning the internet for victim machines with an exposed remote desktop protocol (RDP) port 3389." The attacks, per the cybersecurity company, | Ransomware Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-02-15 14:55:00 | Experts Warn of \'Beep\' - A New Evasive Malware That Can Fly Under the Radar (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new piece of evasive malware dubbed Beep that's designed to fly under the radar and drop additional payloads onto a compromised host. "It seemed as if the authors of this malware were trying to implement as many anti-debugging and anti-VM (anti-sandbox) techniques as they could find," Minerva Labs researcher Natalie Zargarov said. "One such technique | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-02-14 22:21:00 | Massive AdSense Fraud Campaign Uncovered - 10,000+ WordPress Sites Infected (lien direct) | The threat actors behind the black hat redirect malware campaign have scaled up their campaign to use more than 70 bogus domains mimicking URL shorteners and infected over 10,800 websites. "The main objective is still ad fraud by artificially increasing traffic to pages which contain the AdSense ID which contain Google ads for revenue generation," Sucuri researcher Ben Martin said in a report | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-02-14 16:50:00 | Python Developers Beware: Clipper Malware Found in 450+ PyPI Packages! (lien direct) | Malicious actors have published more than 451 unique Python packages on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) repository in an attempt to infect developer systems with clipper malware. Software supply chain security company Phylum, which spotted the libraries, said the ongoing activity is a follow-up to a campaign that was initially disclosed in November 2022. The initial vector entails using | Malware | ★★★ | |
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2023-02-13 13:14:00 | Hackers Targeting U.S. and German Firms Monitor Victims\' Desktops with Screenshotter (lien direct) | A previously unknown threat actor has been targeting companies in the U.S. and Germany with bespoke malware designed to steal confidential information. Enterprise security company Proofpoint, which is tracking the activity cluster under the name Screentime, said the group, dubbed TA866, is likely financially motivated. "TA866 is an organized actor able to perform well thought-out attacks at | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-02-11 16:41:00 | Enigma, Vector, and TgToxic: The New Threats to Cryptocurrency Users (lien direct) | Suspected Russian threat actors have been targeting Eastern European users in the crypto industry with fake job opportunities as bait to install information-stealing malware on compromised hosts. The attackers "use several highly obfuscated and under-development custom loaders in order to infect those involved in the cryptocurrency industry with Enigma stealer," Trend Micro researchers Aliakbar | Malware Threat Prediction | ★★ | |
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2023-02-09 16:08:00 | Gootkit Malware Adopts New Tactics to Attack Healthcare and Finance Firms (lien direct) | The Gootkit malware is prominently going after healthcare and finance organizations in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, according to new findings from Cybereason. The cybersecurity firm said it investigated a Gootkit incident in December 2022 that adopted a new method of deployment, with the actors abusing the foothold to deliver Cobalt Strike and SystemBC for post-exploitation. "The threat actor | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-02-08 16:31:00 | Russian Hackers Using Graphiron Malware to Steal Data from Ukraine (lien direct) | A Russia-linked threat actor has been observed deploying a new information-stealing malware in cyber attacks targeting Ukraine. Dubbed Graphiron by Broadcom-owned Symantec, the malware is the handiwork of an espionage group known as Nodaria, which is tracked by the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) as UAC-0056. "The malware is written in Go and is designed to harvest a wide | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-02-06 18:06:00 | GuLoader Malware Using Malicious NSIS Executable to Target E-Commerce Industry (lien direct) | E-commerce industries in South Korea and the U.S. are at the receiving end of an ongoing GuLoader malware campaign, cybersecurity firm Trellix disclosed late last month. The malspam activity is notable for transitioning away from malware-laced Microsoft Word documents to NSIS executable files for loading the malware. Other countries targeted as part of the campaign include Germany, Saudi Arabia, | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-02-06 13:41:00 | FormBook Malware Spreads via Malvertising Using MalVirt Loader to Evade Detection (lien direct) | An ongoing malvertising campaign is being used to distribute virtualized .NET loaders that are designed to deploy the FormBook information-stealing malware. "The loaders, dubbed MalVirt, use obfuscated virtualization for anti-analysis and evasion along with the Windows Process Explorer driver for terminating processes," SentinelOne researchers Aleksandar Milenkoski and Tom Hegel said in a | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-02-04 19:09:00 | PixPirate: New Android Banking Trojan Targeting Brazilian Financial Institutions (lien direct) | A new Android banking trojan has set its eyes on Brazilian financial institutions to commit fraud by leveraging the PIX payments platform. Italian cybersecurity company Cleafy, which discovered the malware between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, is tracking it under the name PixPirate. "PixPirate belongs to the newest generation of Android banking trojan, as it can perform ATS ( | Malware | ★★★ | |
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2023-02-03 20:33:00 | Post-Macro World Sees Rise in Microsoft OneNote Documents Delivering Malware (lien direct) | In a continuing sign that threat actors are adapting well to a post-macro world, it has emerged that the use of Microsoft OneNote documents to deliver malware via phishing attacks is on the rise. Some of the notable malware families that are being distributed using this method include AsyncRAT, RedLine Stealer, Agent Tesla, DOUBLEBACK, Quasar RAT, XWorm, Qakbot, BATLOADER, and FormBook. | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-02-02 12:17:00 | New Threat: Stealthy HeadCrab Malware Compromised Over 1,200 Redis Servers (lien direct) | At least 1,200 Redis database servers worldwide have been corralled into a botnet using an "elusive and severe threat" dubbed HeadCrab since early September 2021. "This advanced threat actor utilizes a state-of-the-art, custom-made malware that is undetectable by agentless and traditional anti-virus solutions to compromise a large number of Redis servers," Aqua security researcher Asaf Eitani | Malware Threat | ★ | |
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2023-02-01 15:55:00 | Prilex PoS Malware Evolves to Block Contactless Payments to Steal from NFC Cards (lien direct) | The Brazilian threat actors behind an advanced and modular point-of-sale (PoS) malware known as Prilex have reared their head once again with new updates that allow it to block contactless payment transactions. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said it detected three versions of Prilex (06.03.8080, 06.03.8072, and 06.03.8070) that are capable of targeting NFC-enabled credit cards, taking its | Malware Threat | ★ | |
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2023-01-31 16:38:00 | New Report Reveals NikoWiper Malware That Targeted Ukraine Energy Sector (lien direct) | The Russia-affiliated Sandworm used yet another wiper malware strain dubbed NikoWiper as part of an attack that took place in October 2022 targeting an energy sector company in Ukraine. "The NikoWiper is based on SDelete, a command line utility from Microsoft that is used for securely deleting files," cybersecurity company ESET revealed in its latest APT Activity Report shared with The Hacker | Malware | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-31 16:09:00 | Researchers Uncover Packer Used by Several Malware to Evade Detection for 6 Years (lien direct) | A shellcode-based packer dubbed TrickGate has been successfully operating without attracting notice for over six years, while enabling threat actors to deploy a wide range of malware such as TrickBot, Emotet, AZORult, Agent Tesla, FormBook, Cerber, Maze, and REvil over the years. "TrickGate managed to stay under the radar for years because it is transformative – it undergoes changes periodically | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-30 16:56:00 | Titan Stealer: A New Golang-Based Information Stealer Malware Emerges (lien direct) | A new Golang-based information stealer malware dubbed Titan Stealer is being advertised by threat actors through their Telegram channel. "The stealer is capable of stealing a variety of information from infected Windows machines, including credential data from browsers and crypto wallets, FTP client details, screenshots, system information, and grabbed files," Uptycs security researchers | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-01-29 11:17:00 | Gootkit Malware Continues to Evolve with New Components and Obfuscations (lien direct) | The threat actors associated with the Gootkit malware have made "notable changes" to their toolset, adding new components and obfuscations to their infection chains. Google-owned Mandiant is monitoring the activity cluster under the moniker UNC2565, noting that the usage of the malware is "exclusive to this group." Gootkit, also called Gootloader, is spread through compromised websites that | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-01-28 11:19:00 | Ukraine Hit with New Golang-based \'SwiftSlicer\' Wiper Malware in Latest Cyber Attack (lien direct) | Ukraine has come under a fresh cyber onslaught from Russia that involved the deployment of a previously undocumented Golang-based data wiper dubbed SwiftSlicer. ESET attributed the attack to Sandworm, a nation-state group linked to Military Unit 74455 of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU). "Once executed it deletes shadow | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-01-27 19:20:00 | Experts Uncover the Identity of Mastermind Behind Golden Chickens Malware Service (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have discovered the real-world identity of the threat actor behind Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service, who goes by the online persona "badbullzvenom." eSentire's Threat Response Unit (TRU), in an exhaustive report published following a 16-month-long investigation, said it "found multiple mentions of the badbullzvenom account being shared between two people." The | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-27 17:23:00 | Researchers Discover New PlugX Malware Variant Spreading via Removable USB Devices (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a PlugX sample that employs sneaky methods to infect attached removable USB media devices in order to propagate the malware to additional systems. "This PlugX variant is wormable and infects USB devices in such a way that it conceals itself from the Windows operating file system," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers Mike Harbison and Jen Miller-Osborn | Malware | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-27 16:25:00 | 3 Lifehacks While Analyzing Orcus RAT in a Malware Sandbox (lien direct) | Orcus is a Remote Access Trojan with some distinctive characteristics. The RAT allows attackers to create plugins and offers a robust core feature set that makes it quite a dangerous malicious program in its class. RAT is quite a stable type that always makes it to the top. ANY.RUN's top malware types in 2022 That's why you'll definitely come across this type in your practice, and the Orcus | Malware | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-26 11:31:00 | PY#RATION: New Python-based RAT Uses WebSocket for C2 and Data Exfiltration (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new Python-based attack campaign that leverages a Python-based remote access trojan (RAT) to gain control over compromised systems since at least August 2022. "This malware is unique in its utilization of WebSockets to avoid detection and for both command-and-control (C2) communication and exfiltration," Securonix said in a report shared with The Hacker | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-01-24 20:07:00 | Chinese Hackers Utilize Golang Malware in DragonSpark Attacks to Evade Detection (lien direct) | Organizations in East Asia are being targeted by a likely Chinese-speaking actor dubbed DragonSpark while employing uncommon tactics to go past security layers. "The attacks are characterized by the use of the little known open source SparkRAT and malware that attempts to evade detection through Golang source code interpretation," SentinelOne said in an analysis published today. A striking | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-01-24 16:33:00 | Emotet Malware Makes a Comeback with New Evasion Techniques (lien direct) | The Emotet malware operation has continued to refine its tactics in an effort to fly under the radar, while also acting as a conduit for other dangerous malware such as Bumblebee and IcedID. Emotet, which officially reemerged in late 2021 following a coordinated takedown of its infrastructure by authorities earlier that year, has continued to be a persistent threat that's distributed via | Malware Threat | ★★★★ | |
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2023-01-20 22:03:00 | Roaming Mantis Spreading Mobile Malware That Hijacks Wi-Fi Routers\' DNS Settings (lien direct) | Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the feature is designed to target specific Wi-Fi routers located in South Korea. | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-01-20 12:29:00 | New Chinese Malware Spotted Exploiting Recent Fortinet Firewall Vulnerability (lien direct) | A suspected China-nexus threat actor exploited a recently patched vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN as a zero-day in attacks targeting a European government entity and a managed service provider (MSP) located in Africa. Telemetry evidence gathered by Google-owned Mandiant indicates that the exploitation occurred as early as October 2022, at least nearly two months before fixes were | Malware Vulnerability Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-01-19 18:57:00 | Android Users Beware: New Hook Malware with RAT Capabilities Emerges (lien direct) | The threat actor behind the BlackRock and ERMAC Android banking trojans has unleashed yet another malware for rent called Hook that introduces new capabilities to access files stored in the devices and create a remote interactive session. ThreatFabric, in a report shared with The Hacker News, characterized Hook as a novel ERMAC fork that's advertised for sale for $7,000 per month while featuring | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-18 16:35:00 | Iranian Government Entities Under Attack by New Wave of BackdoorDiplomacy Attacks (lien direct) | The threat actor known as BackdoorDiplomacy has been linked to a new wave of attacks targeting Iranian government entities between July and late December 2022. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which is tracking the activity under its constellation-themed moniker Playful Taurus, said it observed the government domains attempting to connect to malware infrastructure previously identified as associated | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-17 18:15:00 | Hackers Can Abuse Legitimate GitHub Codespaces Feature to Deliver Malware (lien direct) | New research has found that it is possible for threat actors to abuse a legitimate feature in GitHub Codespaces to deliver malware to victim systems. GitHub Codespaces is a cloud-based configurable development environment that allows users to debug, maintain, and commit changes to a given codebase from a web browser or via an integration in Visual Studio Code. It also comes with a port | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-17 12:06:00 | Researchers Uncover 3 PyPI Packages Spreading Malware to Developer Systems (lien direct) | A threat actor by the name Lolip0p has uploaded three rogue packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to drop malware on compromised developer systems. The packages – named colorslib (versions 4.6.11 and 4.6.12), httpslib (versions 4.6.9 and 4.6.11), and libhttps (version 4.6.12) – by the author between January 7, 2023, and January 12, 2023. They have since been | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-16 18:17:00 | Raccoon and Vidar Stealers Spreading via Massive Network of Fake Cracked Software (lien direct) | A "large and resilient infrastructure" comprising over 250 domains is being used to distribute information-stealing malware such as Raccoon and Vidar since early 2020. The infection chain "uses about a hundred of fake cracked software catalogue websites that redirect to several links before downloading the payload hosted on file share platforms, such as GitHub," cybersecurity firm SEKOIA said in | Malware | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-16 15:39:00 | New Backdoor Created Using Leaked CIA\'s Hive Malware Discovered in the Wild (lien direct) | 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 suite, the source code of which was released by WikiLeaks in November 2017. "This is the first time we caught a variant of the CIA Hive attack kit in the wild, and we named it xdr33 based on its embedded Bot-side certificate CN=xdr33," | Malware Threat | ★★★★ | |
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2023-01-14 14:11:00 | Malware Attack on CircleCI Engineer\'s Laptop Leads to Recent Security Incident (lien direct) | 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 credentials to breach the company's systems and data last month. The CI/CD service CircleCI said the "sophisticated attack" took place on December 16, 2022, and that the malware went undetected by its antivirus | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-13 22:09:00 | Beware: Tainted VPNs Being Used to Spread EyeSpy Surveillanceware (lien direct) | Tainted VPN installers are being used to deliver a piece of surveillanceware dubbed EyeSpy as part of a malware campaign that started in May 2022. It uses "components of SecondEye – a legitimate monitoring application – to spy on users of 20Speed VPN, an Iranian-based VPN service, via trojanized installers," Bitdefender said in an analysis. A majority of the infections are said to originate in | Malware | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-13 16:56:00 | Cybercriminals Using Polyglot Files in Malware Distribution to Fly Under the Radar (lien direct) | Remote access trojans such as StrRAT and Ratty are being distributed as a combination of polyglot and malicious Java archive (JAR) files, once again highlighting how threat actors are continuously finding new ways to fly under the radar. "Attackers now use the polyglot technique to confuse security solutions that don't properly validate the JAR file format," Deep Instinct security researcher | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-12 20:16:00 | IcedID Malware Strikes Again: Active Directory Domain Compromised in Under 24 Hours (lien direct) | A recent IcedID malware attack enabled the threat actor to compromise the Active Directory domain of an unnamed target less than 24 hours after gaining initial access. "Throughout the attack, the attacker followed a routine of recon commands, credential theft, lateral movement by abusing Windows protocols, and executing Cobalt Strike on the newly compromised host," Cybereason researchers said in | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-01-11 23:05:00 | New Analysis Reveals Raspberry Robin Can be Repurposed by Other Threat Actors (lien direct) | A new analysis of Raspberry Robin's attack infrastructure has revealed that it's possible for other threat actors to repurpose the infections for their own malicious activities, making it an even more potent threat. Raspberry Robin (aka QNAP worm), attributed to a threat actor dubbed DEV-0856, is malware that has increasingly come under the radar for being used in attacks aimed at finance, | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-01-11 19:54:00 | Australian Healthcare Sector Targeted in Latest Gootkit Malware Attacks (lien direct) | A wave of Gootkit malware loader attacks has targeted the Australian healthcare sector by leveraging legitimate tools like VLC Media Player. Gootkit, also called Gootloader, is known to employ search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning tactics (aka spamdexing) for initial access. It typically works by compromising and abusing legitimate infrastructure and seeding those sites with common keywords | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-01-10 22:10:00 | (Déjà vu) StrongPity Hackers Distribute Trojanized Telegram App to Target Android Users (lien direct) | The advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as StrongPity has targeted Android users with a trojanized version of the Telegram app through a fake website that impersonates a video chat service called Shagle. "A copycat website, mimicking the Shagle service, is used to distribute StrongPity's mobile backdoor app," ESET malware researcher Lukáš Štefanko said in a technical report. "The app is | Malware Threat | ★ | |
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2023-01-10 18:24:00 | Italian Users Warned of Malware Attack Targeting Sensitive Information (lien direct) | A new malware campaign has been observed targeting Italy with phishing emails designed to deploy an information stealer on compromised Windows systems. "The info-stealer malware steals sensitive information like system info, crypto wallet and browser histories, cookies, and credentials of crypto wallets from victim machines," Uptycs security researcher Karthickkumar Kathiresan said in a report. | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-01-08 11:45:00 | Russian Turla Hackers Hijack Decade-Old Malware Infrastructure to Deploy New Backdoors (lien direct) | The Russian cyberespionage group known as Turla has been observed piggybacking on attack infrastructure used by a decade-old malware to deliver its own reconnaissance and backdoor tools to targets in Ukraine. Google-owned Mandiant, which is tracking the operation under the uncategorized cluster moniker UNC4210, said the hijacked servers correspond to a variant of a commodity malware called | Malware | ★★★★★ | |
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2023-01-06 19:45:00 | Microsoft Reveals Tactics Used by 4 Ransomware Families Targeting macOS (lien direct) | Microsoft has shed light on four different ransomware families – KeRanger, FileCoder, MacRansom, and EvilQuest – that are known to impact Apple macOS systems. "While these malware families are old, they exemplify the range of capabilities and malicious behavior possible on the platform," the tech giant's Security Threat Intelligence team said in a Thursday report. The initial vector for these | Ransomware Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-06 19:16:00 | Dridex Malware Now Attacking macOS Systems with Novel Infection Method (lien direct) | A variant of the infamous Dridex banking malware has set its sights on Apple's macOS operating system using a previously undocumented infection method, according to latest research. It has "adopted a new technique to deliver documents embedded with malicious macros to users without having to pretend to be invoices or other business-related files," Trend Micro researcher Armando Nathaniel | Malware Prediction | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-05 18:04:00 | Bluebottle Cybercrime Group Preys on Financial Sector in French-Speaking African Nations (lien direct) | A cybercrime group dubbed Bluebottle has been linked to a set of targeted attacks against the financial sector in Francophone countries located in Africa from at least July 2022 to September 2022. "The group makes extensive use of living-off-the-land, dual use tools, and commodity malware, with no custom malware deployed in this campaign," Symantec, a division of Broadcom Software, said in a | Malware | ★★ |
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