Hackers Hit Indian Defense, Energy Sectors with Malware Posing as Air Force Invite

[ad_1] Mar 27, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Data Breach Indian government entities and energy companies have been targeted by unknown threat actors with an aim to deliver a modified version of an open-source information stealer malware called HackBrowserData and exfiltrate sensitive information in some cases by using Slack as command-and-control (C2). “The information stealer was delivered…

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Hackers Actively Attacking Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability

[ad_1] Mar 27, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw impacting the Microsoft Sharepoint Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-24955 (CVSS score: 7.2), is a critical remote code…

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Hackers Hijack GitHub Accounts in Supply Chain Attack Affecting Top-gg and Others

[ad_1] Mar 25, 2024NewsroomSupply Chain Attack / Cryptocurrency Unidentified adversaries orchestrated a sophisticated attack campaign that has impacted several individual developers as well as the GitHub organization account associated with Top.gg, a Discord bot discovery site. “The threat actors used multiple TTPs in this attack, including account takeover via stolen browser cookies, contributing malicious code…

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Russian Hackers Use ‘WINELOADER’ Malware to Target German Political Parties

[ad_1] Mar 23, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Cyber Warfare The WINELOADER backdoor used in recent cyber attacks targeting diplomatic entities with wine-tasting phishing lures has been attributed as the handiwork of a hacking group with links to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), which was responsible for breaching SolarWinds and Microsoft. The findings come from Mandiant, which…

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Russian Hackers Target Ukrainian Telecoms with Upgraded ‘AcidPour’ Malware

[ad_1] Mar 22, 2024NewsroomLinux / Cyber Warfare The data wiping malware called AcidPour may have been deployed in attacks targeting four telecom providers in Ukraine, new findings from SentinelOne show. The cybersecurity firm also confirmed connections between the malware and AcidRain, tying it to threat activity clusters associated with Russian military intelligence. “AcidPour’s expanded capabilities…

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Russia Hackers Using TinyTurla-NG to Breach European NGO’s Systems

[ad_1] Mar 21, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Malware The Russia-linked threat actor known as Turla infected several systems belonging to an unnamed European non-governmental organization (NGO) in order to deploy a backdoor called TinyTurla-NG. “The attackers compromised the first system, established persistence and added exclusions to antivirus products running on these endpoints as part of their…

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Hackers Exploiting Popular Document Publishing Sites for Phishing Attacks

[ad_1] Mar 19, 2024NewsroomEmail Security / Social Engineering Threat actors are leveraging digital document publishing (DDP) sites hosted on platforms like FlipSnack, Issuu, Marq, Publuu, RelayTo, and Simplebooklet for carrying out phishing, credential harvesting, and session token theft, once again underscoring how threat actors are repurposing legitimate services for malicious ends. “Hosting phishing lures on…

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Hackers Using Sneaky HTML Smuggling to Deliver Malware via Fake Google Sites

[ad_1] Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malware campaign that leverages bogus Google Sites pages and HTML smuggling to distribute a commercial malware called AZORult in order to facilitate information theft. “It uses an unorthodox HTML smuggling technique where the malicious payload is embedded in a separate JSON file hosted on an external website,” Netskope…

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Hackers Using Cracked Software on GitHub to Spread RisePro Info Stealer

[ad_1] Mar 16, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have found a number of GitHub repositories offering cracked software that are used to deliver an information stealer called RisePro. The campaign, codenamed gitgub, includes 17 repositories associated with 11 different accounts, according to G DATA. The repositories in question have since been taken down by the…

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