A comprehensive analysis of data theft incidents investigated by ReliaQuest from September 2023 to July 2024 revealed that Rclone, WinSCP, and cURL are among the most prevalent exfiltration tools used by threat actors.
Researchers discovered that a solar grid responsible for 20% of the world’s solar power output, enough to power the entire United States, is at risk of being hijacked due to vulnerabilities in PV plant management platforms.
Recent findings indicate that the 7777 botnet (aka Quad7) has likely expanded, adding new bots with open port 63256, primarily including Asus routers. As of August 5, 2024, the total number of active bots stood at 12,783.
The malware attack flow involves luring users with fake websites imitating popular downloads, then executing PowerShell scripts to download and install malicious extensions that steal private data and control browser settings.
A fraudulent site resembling the official WinRar distribution platform is spreading malware. The fake website, win-rar[.]co, utilizes typosquatting to trick users who mistype the URL.
Quorum Cyber Incident Response team recently identified a new malware called SharpRhino utilized by the threat actor group Hunters International during a ransomware incident. The malware, written in C#, was distributed through a typosquatting domain posing as Angry IP Scanner.
Security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the industrial remote access solution Ewon Cosy+ that could be abused to gain root privileges to the devices and stage follow-on attacks. The elevated access could then be weaponized to decrypt encrypted firmware files and encrypted data such as passwords in configuration files, and even get correctly signed X.509 […]
The Russian government and IT organizations are the target of a new campaign that delivers a number of backdoors and trojans as part of a spear-phishing campaign codenamed EastWind. The attack chains are characterized by the use of RAR archive attachments containing a Windows shortcut (LNK) file that, upon opening, activates the infection sequence, culminating […]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerades as a library from the Solana blockchain platform but is actually designed to steal victims’ secrets. “The legitimate Solana Python API project is known as ‘solana-py’ on GitHub, but simply ‘solana’ on the Python software registry, PyPI,” Sonatype […]