QEMU Emulator Exploited as Tunneling Tool to Breach Company Network

[ad_1] Mar 08, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Network Security Threat actors have been observed leveraging the QEMU open-source hardware emulator as tunneling software during a cyber attack targeting an unnamed “large company” to connect to their infrastructure. While a number of legitimate tunneling tools like Chisel, FRP, ligolo, ngrok, and Plink have been used by adversaries…

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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited JetBrains TeamCity Vulnerability

[ad_1] Mar 08, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Threat Intelligence The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.8), refers to an authentication bypass bug that…

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Hacked WordPress Sites Abusing Visitors’ Browsers for Distributed Brute-Force Attacks

[ad_1] Mar 07, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Web Security Threat actors are conducting brute-force attacks against WordPress sites by leveraging malicious JavaScript injections, new findings from Sucuri reveal. The attacks, which take the form of distributed brute-force attacks, “target WordPress websites from the browsers of completely innocent and unsuspecting site visitors,” security researcher Denis Sinegubko said. The…

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Human vs. Non-Human Identity in SaaS

[ad_1] In today’s rapidly evolving SaaS environment, the focus is on human users. This is one of the most compromised areas in SaaS security management and requires strict governance of user roles and permissions, monitoring of privileged users, their level of activity (dormant, active, hyperactive), their type (internal/ external), whether they are joiners, movers, or…

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Ex-Google Engineer Arrested for Stealing AI Technology Secrets for China

[ad_1] The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the indictment of a 38-year-old Chinese national and a California resident of allegedly stealing proprietary information from Google while covertly working for two China-based tech companies. Linwei Ding (aka Leon Ding), a former Google engineer who was arrested on March 6, 2024, “transferred sensitive Google trade secrets…

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New Python-Based Snake Info Stealer Spreading Through Facebook Messages

[ad_1] Mar 07, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Information Stealer Facebook messages are being used by threat actors to a Python-based information stealer dubbed Snake that’s designed to capture credentials and other sensitive data. “The credentials harvested from unsuspecting users are transmitted to different platforms such as Discord, GitHub, and Telegram,” Cybereason researcher Kotaro Ogino said in a…

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Watch Out for Spoofed Zoom, Skype, Google Meet Sites Delivering Malware

[ad_1] Mar 07, 2024NewsroomMalware / Network Security Threat actors have been leveraging fake websites advertising popular video conferencing software such as Google Meet, Skype, and Zoom to deliver a variety of malware targeting both Android and Windows users since December 2023. “The threat actor is distributing Remote Access Trojans (RATs) including SpyNote RAT for Android…

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BlackCat Ransomware Group Vanishes After $22 Million Payout

[ad_1] Mar 06, 2024NewsroomCyber Crime / Ransomware The threat actors behind the BlackCat ransomware have shut down their darknet website and likely pulled an exit scam after uploading a bogus law enforcement seizure banner. “ALPHV/BlackCat did not get seized. They are exit scamming their affiliates,” security researcher Fabian Wosar said. “It is blatantly obvious when…

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