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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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2023-02-15 13:25:00 | Google Rolling Out Privacy Sandbox Beta on Android 13 Devices (lien direct) | Google announced on Tuesday that it's officially rolling out Privacy Sandbox on Android in beta to eligible mobile devices running Android 13. "The Privacy Sandbox Beta provides new APIs that are designed with privacy at the core, and don't use identifiers that can track your activity across apps and websites," the search and advertising giant said. "Apps that choose to participate in the Beta | ★★ | ||
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2023-02-15 09:51:00 | Update Now: Microsoft Releases Patches for 3 Actively Exploited Windows Vulnerabilities (lien direct) | Microsoft on Tuesday released security updates to address 75 flaws spanning its product portfolio, three of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. The updates are in addition to 22 flaws the Windows maker patched in its Chromium-based Edge browser over the past month. Of the 75 vulnerabilities, nine are rated Critical and 66 are rated Important in severity. 37 out of 75 bugs are | ★ | ||
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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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2023-02-14 15:42:00 | A CISOs Practical Guide to Storage and Backup Ransomware Resiliency (lien direct) | One thing is clear. The "business value" of data continues to grow, making it an organization's primary piece of intellectual property. From a cyber risk perspective, attacks on data are the most prominent threat to organizations. Regulators, cyber insurance firms, and auditors are paying much closer attention to the integrity, resilience, and recoverability of organization data – as well as | Ransomware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-02-14 15:09:00 | Chinese Hackers Targeting South American Diplomatic Entities with ShadowPad (lien direct) | Microsoft on Monday attributed a China-based cyber espionage actor to a set of attacks targeting diplomatic entities in South America. The tech giant's Security Intelligence team is tracking the cluster under the emerging moniker DEV-0147, describing the activity as an "expansion of the group's data exfiltration operations that traditionally targeted government agencies and think tanks in Asia | ★★★ | ||
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2023-02-14 10:46:00 | (Déjà vu) Massive HTTP DDoS Attack Hits Record High of 71 Million Requests/Second (lien direct) | Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS). "The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (RPS) with the largest exceeding 71 million," the company said, calling it a "hyper-volumetric" DDoS attack. It's also | ★ | ||
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2023-02-14 10:14:00 | Patch Now: Apple\'s iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari Under Attack with New Zero-Day Flaw (lien direct) | Apple on Monday rolled out security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari to address a zero-day flaw that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-23529, the issue relates to a type confusion bug in the WebKit browser engine that could be activated when processing maliciously crafted web content, culminating in arbitrary code execution. The iPhone maker said the | ★★ | ||
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2023-02-13 21:01:00 | Hackers Create Malicious Dota 2 Game Modes to Secretly Access Players\' Systems (lien direct) | An unknown threat actor created malicious game modes for the Dota 2 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game that could have been exploited to establish backdoor access to players' systems. The modes exploited a high-severity flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine tracked as CVE-2021-38003 (CVSS score: 8.8), which was exploited as a zero-day and addressed by Google in October 2021. "Since V8 | Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-02-13 15:29:00 | Honeypot-Factory: The Use of Deception in ICS/OT Environments (lien direct) | There have been a number of reports of attacks on industrial control systems (ICS) in the past few years. Looking a bit closer, most of the attacks seem to have spilt over from traditional IT. That's to be expected, as production systems are commonly connected to ordinary corporate networks at this point. Though our data does not indicate at this point that a lot of threat actors specifically | Threat Industrial | ★★ | |
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2023-02-13 13:28:00 | Chinese Tonto Team Hackers\' Second Attempt to Target Cybersecurity Firm Group-IB Fails (lien direct) | The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Tonto Team carried out an unsuccessful attack on cybersecurity company Group-IB in June 2022. The Singapore-headquartered firm said that it detected and blocked malicious phishing emails originating from the group targeting its employees. It's also the second attack aimed at Group-IB, the first of which took place in March 2021. Tonto Team, | Threat | ★★ | |
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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 19:06:00 | New ESXiArgs Ransomware Variant Emerges After CISA Releases Decryptor Tool (lien direct) | After the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a decryptor for affected victims to recover from ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, the threat actors have bounced back with an updated version that encrypts more data. The emergence of the new variant was reported by a system administrator on an online forum, where another participant stated that files larger than 128MB | Ransomware Tool 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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2023-02-11 11:15:00 | CISA Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting Fortra MFT, TerraMaster NAS, and Intel Driver Flaws (lien direct) | The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active abuse in the wild. Included among the three is CVE-2022-24990, a bug affecting TerraMaster network-attached storage (TNAS) devices that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution with the highest privileges. Details | Guideline | ★★ | |
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2023-02-10 22:14:00 | Researchers Uncover Obfuscated Malicious Code in PyPI Python Packages (lien direct) | Four different rogue packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) have been found to carry out a number of malicious actions, including dropping malware, deleting the netstat utility, and manipulating the SSH authorized_keys file. The packages in question are aptx, bingchilling2, httops, and tkint3rs, all of which were collectively downloaded about 450 times before they were taken down. While | ★★ | ||
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2023-02-10 17:22:00 | North Korean Hackers Targeting Healthcare with Ransomware to Fund its Operations (lien direct) | State-backed hackers from North Korea are conducting ransomware attacks against healthcare and critical infrastructure facilities to fund illicit activities, U.S. and South Korean cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned in a joint advisory. The attacks, which demand cryptocurrency ransoms in exchange for recovering access to encrypted files, are designed to support North Korea's | Ransomware | ★★★ | |
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2023-02-10 16:12:00 | 3 Overlooked Cybersecurity Breaches (lien direct) | Here are three of the worst breaches, attacker tactics and techniques of 2022, and the security controls that can provide effective, enterprise security protection for them. #1: 2 RaaS Attacks in 13 Months Ransomware as a service is a type of attack in which the ransomware software and infrastructure are leased out to the attackers. These ransomware services can be purchased on the dark web from | Ransomware | ★★★ | |
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2023-02-10 15:04:00 | U.K. and U.S. Sanction 7 Russians for TrickBot, Ryuk, and Conti Ransomware Attacks (lien direct) | In a first-of-its-kind coordinated action, the U.K. and U.S. governments on Thursday levied sanctions against seven Russian nationals for their affiliation to the TrickBot, Ryuk, and Conti cybercrime operation. The individuals designated under sanctions are Vitaly Kovalev (aka Alex Konor, Bentley, or Bergen), Maksim Mikhailov (aka Baget), Valentin Karyagin (aka Globus), Mikhail Iskritskiy (aka | Ransomware | ★★★ | |
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2023-02-10 09:58:00 | Reddit Suffers Security Breach Exposing Internal Documents and Source Code (lien direct) | Popular social news aggregation platform Reddit has disclosed that it was the victim of a security incident that enabled unidentified threat actors to gain unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some unspecified business systems. The company blamed it on a "sophisticated and highly-targeted phishing attack" that took place on February 5, 2023, targeting its employees. The attack | Threat | ★★★★ | |
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2023-02-09 19:39:00 | Critical Infrastructure at Risk from New Vulnerabilities Found in Wireless IIoT Devices (lien direct) | A set of 38 security vulnerabilities has been uncovered in wireless industrial internet of things (IIoT) devices from four different vendors that could pose a significant attack surface for threat actors looking to exploit operational technology (OT) environments. "Threat actors can exploit vulnerabilities in Wireless IIoT devices to gain initial access to internal OT networks," Israeli | Threat Industrial | ★★★★ | |
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2023-02-09 18:41:00 | THN Webinar – Learn How to Comply with New Cyber Insurance Identity Security Requirements (lien direct) | The Hacker News is thrilled to announce the launch of our new educational webinar series, in collaboration with the leading cybersecurity companies in the industry! Get ready to dive into the world of enterprise-level security with expert guests who will share their vast knowledge and provide you with valuable insights and information on various security topics. Whether you're a seasoned | Guideline | ★ | |
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2023-02-09 16:36:00 | NewsPenguin Threat Actor Emerges with Malicious Campaign Targeting Pakistani Entities (lien direct) | A previously unknown threat actor dubbed NewsPenguin has been linked to a phishing campaign targeting Pakistani entities by leveraging the upcoming international maritime expo as a lure. "The attacker sent out targeted phishing emails with a weaponized document attached that purports to be an exhibitor manual for PIMEC-23," the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team said. PIMEC, short for | Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-02-09 16:20:00 | A Hackers Pot of Gold: Your MSP\'s Data (lien direct) | A single ransomware attack on a New Zealand managed service provider (MSP) disrupted several of its clients' business operations overnight, most belonging to the healthcare sector. According to the country's privacy commissioner, "a cyber security incident involving a ransomware attack" in late November upended the daily operations of New Zealand's health ministry when it prevented the staff | Ransomware | ★★★ | |
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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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2023-02-09 15:21:00 | OpenSSL Fixes Multiple New Security Flaws with Latest Update (lien direct) | The OpenSSL Project has released fixes to address several security flaws, including a high-severity bug in the open source encryption toolkit that could potentially expose users to malicious attacks. Tracked as CVE-2023-0286, the issue relates to a case of type confusion that may permit an adversary to "read memory contents or enact a denial-of-service," the maintainers said in an advisory. The | ★★★ | ||
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2023-02-08 22:48:00 | NIST Standardizes Ascon Cryptographic Algorithm for IoT and Other Lightweight Devices (lien direct) | The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that a family of authenticated encryption and hashing algorithms known as Ascon will be standardized for lightweight cryptography applications. "The chosen algorithms are designed to protect information created and transmitted by the Internet of Things (IoT), including its myriad tiny sensors and actuators," NIST said. | ★★★ | ||
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2023-02-08 20:45:00 | Unpatched Security Flaws Disclosed in Multiple Document Management Systems (lien direct) | Multiple unpatched security flaws have been disclosed in open source and freemium Document Management System (DMS) offerings from four vendors LogicalDOC, Mayan, ONLYOFFICE, and OpenKM. Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 said the eight vulnerabilities offer a mechanism through which "an attacker can convince a human operator to save a malicious document on the platform and, once the document is indexed | ★★ | ||
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2023-02-08 20:30:00 | Sydney Man Sentenced for Blackmailing Optus Customers After Data Breach (lien direct) | A Sydney man has been sentenced to an 18-month Community Correction Order (CCO) and 100 hours of community service for attempting to take advantage of the Optus data breach last year to blackmail its customers. The unnamed individual, 19 when arrested in October 2022 and now 20, used the leaked records stolen from the security lapse to orchestrate an SMS-based extortion scheme. The suspect | Data Breach | ★★ | |
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2023-02-08 16:31:00 | How to Think Like a Hacker and Stay Ahead of Threats (lien direct) | To succeed as a cybersecurity analyst, you need to understand the traits, values, and thought processes of hackers, along with the tools they use to launch their attacks. During a webinar called The Hacker Mindset, a Red Team Researcher shared how you can use some of these tools for your own detection and prevention of breaches. He also demonstrated how an attack takes place using the Follina | ★★ | ||
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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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2023-02-08 15:09:00 | Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Linked to Ryuk Ransomware (lien direct) | A Russian national on February 7, 2023, pleaded guilty in the U.S. to money laundering charges and for attempting to conceal the source of funds obtained in connection with Ryuk ransomware attacks. Denis Mihaqlovic Dubnikov, 30, was arrested in Amsterdam in November 2021 before he was extradited from the Netherlands in August 2022. He is awaiting sentencing on April 11, 2023. "Between at least | Ransomware Guideline | ★★ | |
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2023-02-08 11:46:00 | CERT-UA Alerts Ukrainian State Authorities of Remcos Software-Fueled Cyber Attacks (lien direct) | The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has issued an alert warning of cyber attacks against state authorities in the country that deploy a legitimate remote access software named Remcos. The mass phishing campaign has been attributed to a threat actor it tracks as UAC-0050, with the agency describing the activity as likely motivated by espionage given the toolset employed. The | Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-02-07 23:05:00 | Encrypted Messaging App Exclu Used by Criminal Groups Cracked by Joint Law Enforcement (lien direct) | A joint law enforcement operation conducted by Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland has cracked yet another encrypted messaging application named Exclu used by organized crime groups. Eurojust, in a press statement, said the February 3 exercise resulted in the arrests of 45 individuals across Belgium and the Netherlands, some of whom include users as well as the administrators and owners of the | ★★★ | ||
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2023-02-07 18:28:00 | Hackers Exploit Vulnerabilities in Sunlogin to Deploy Sliver C2 Framework (lien direct) | Threat actors are leveraging known flaws in Sunlogin software to deploy the Sliver command-and-control (C2) framework for carrying out post-exploitation activities. The findings come from AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC), which found that security vulnerabilities in Sunlogin, a remote desktop program developed in China, are being abused to deploy a wide range of payloads. "Not | Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-02-07 18:17:00 | Tackling the New Cyber Insurance Requirements: Can Your Organization Comply? (lien direct) | With cyberattacks around the world escalating rapidly, insurance companies are ramping up the requirements to qualify for a cyber insurance policy. Ransomware attacks were up 80% last year, prompting underwriters to put in place a number of new provisions designed to prevent ransomware and stem the record number of claims. Among these are a mandate to enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) | Ransomware | ★★★ | |
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2023-02-07 16:32:00 | Linux Variant of Clop Ransomware Spotted, But Uses Faulty Encryption Algorithm (lien direct) | The first-ever Linux variant of the Clop ransomware has been detected in the wild, but with a faulty encryption algorithm that has made it possible to reverse engineer the process. "The ELF executable contains a flawed encryption algorithm making it possible to decrypt locked files without paying the ransom," SentinelOne researcher Antonis Terefos said in a report shared with The Hacker News. | Ransomware | ★★ | |
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2023-02-07 15:51:00 | VMware Finds No Evidence of 0-Day in Ongoing ESXiArgs Ransomware Spree (lien direct) | VMware on Monday said it found no evidence that threat actors are leveraging an unknown security flaw, i.e., a zero-day, in its software as part of an ongoing ransomware attack spree worldwide. "Most reports state that End of General Support (EoGS) and/or significantly out-of-date products are being targeted with known vulnerabilities which were previously addressed and disclosed in VMware | Ransomware 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 17:39:00 | Microsoft: Iranian Nation-State Group Sanctioned by U.S. Behind Charlie Hebdo Hack (lien direct) | An Iranian nation-state group sanctioned by the U.S. government has been attributed to the hack of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in early January 2023. Microsoft, which disclosed details of the incident, is tracking the activity cluster under its chemical element-themed moniker NEPTUNIUM, which is an Iran-based company known as Emennet Pasargad. In January 2022, the U.S. Federal | Hack | ★★ | |
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2023-02-06 15:30:00 | SaaS in the Real World: Who\'s Responsible to Secure this Data? (lien direct) | When SaaS applications started growing in popularity, it was unclear who was responsible for securing the data. Today, most security and IT teams understand the shared responsibility model, in which the SaaS vendor is responsible for securing the application, while the organization is responsible for securing their data. What's far murkier, however, is where the data responsibility lies on the | ★★ | ||
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2023-02-06 15:25:00 | OpenSSH Releases Patch for New Pre-Auth Double Free Vulnerability (lien direct) | The maintainers of OpenSSH have released OpenSSH 9.2 to address a number of security bugs, including a memory safety vulnerability in the OpenSSH server (sshd). Tracked as CVE-2023-25136, the shortcoming has been classified as a pre-authentication double free vulnerability that was introduced in version 9.1. "This is not believed to be exploitable, and it occurs in the unprivileged pre-auth | Vulnerability | ★★ | |
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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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2023-02-04 11:00:00 | New Wave of Ransomware Attacks Exploiting VMware Bug to Target ESXi Servers (lien direct) | VMware ESXi hypervisors are the target of a new wave of attacks designed to deploy ransomware on compromised systems. "These attack campaigns appear to exploit CVE-2021-21974, for which a patch has been available since February 23, 2021," the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of France said in an advisory on Friday. VMware, in its own alert released at the time, described the issue as an | Ransomware | ★★★ | |
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2023-02-04 10:11:00 | Warning: Hackers Actively Exploiting Zero-Day in Fortra\'s GoAnywhere MFT (lien direct) | A zero-day vulnerability affecting Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT managed file transfer application is being actively exploited in the wild. Details of the flaw were first publicly shared by security reporter Brian Krebs on Mastodon. No public advisory has been published by Fortra. The vulnerability is a case of remote code injection that requires access to the administrative console of the application | Vulnerability | ★★★ | |
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2023-02-03 21:06:00 | Is Your EV Charging Station Safe? New Security Vulnerabilities Uncovered (lien direct) | Two new security weaknesses discovered in several electric vehicle (EV) charging systems could be exploited to remotely shut down charging stations and even expose them to data and energy theft. The findings, which come from Israel-based SaiFlow, once again demonstrate the potential risks facing the EV charging infrastructure. The issues have been identified in version 1.6J of the Open Charge | ★★ | ||
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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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2023-02-03 17:42:00 | Iranian OilRig Hackers Using New Backdoor to Exfiltrate Data from Govt. Organizations (lien direct) | The Iranian nation-state hacking group known as OilRig has continued to target government organizations in the Middle East as part of a cyber espionage campaign that leverages a new backdoor to exfiltrate data. "The campaign abuses legitimate but compromised email accounts to send stolen data to external mail accounts controlled by the attackers," Trend Micro researchers Mohamed Fahmy, Sherif | Prediction | APT 34 | ★★ |
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