Cybersecurity
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Sep 19, 2023THNCyber Attack / Threat Intel Targets located in Azerbaijan have been singled out as part of a new campaign that’s designed to deploy Rust-based malware on compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct is tracking the operation under the name Operation Rusty Flag. It has not been associated with any known threat actor or […]
A Chinese-speaking threat actor that has been skimming credit card numbers off ecommerce sites and point-of-sale service providers in the Asia/Pacific region for more than a year has begun aiming at similar targets in North and Latin America as well. In a series of attacks since at least May 2023, the adversary has exploited vulnerabilities […]
Sep 19, 2023THNMalware / Cyber Threat Telecommunication service providers in the Middle East are the target of a new intrusion set dubbed ShroudedSnooper that employs a stealthy backdoor called HTTPSnoop. “HTTPSnoop is a simple, yet effective, backdoor that consists of novel techniques to interface with Windows HTTP kernel drivers and devices to listen to incoming […]
Bruno Kahl, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service, warned that liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the country could be targeted by state-sponsored hackers. As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year — believed to have cut Germany’s GDP by about 2.5% due to its dependence on gas pipelined from Russia […]
Microsoft accidentally revealed a huge trove of sensitive internal information dating back over three years via a public GitHub repository, it has emerged. Cloud security firm Wiz discovered the privacy snafu when it found the GitHub repository “robust-models-transfer” which belonged to Microsoft’s AI research division. Although the repository was meant only to provide access to […]
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Geo-Specific , Ransomware Australian Federal Police, Department of Home Affairs Reportedly Among the Victims Mihir Bagwe (MihirBagwe) • September 18, 2023 Image: Shutterstock An April ransomware attack against one of Australia’s largest law firms swept up the data of 65 Australian government agencies, the country’s newly appointed national […]
Malicious actors have stolen more than $1m in a ‘pig butchering’ cryptocurrency scam in just three months, researchers from Sophos have found. The highly sophisticated operation used a total of 14 domains and dozens of nearly identical fraud sites, according to the investigation. The attackers utilized fake trading pools of cryptocurrency from decentralized finance (DeFi) […]
A new analysis of the Android banking trojan known as Hook has revealed that it’s based on its predecessor called ERMAC. “The ERMAC source code was used as a base for Hook,” NCC Group security researchers Joshua Kamp and Alberto Segura said in a technical analysis published last week. “All commands (30 in total) that […]
Cleaning product giant Clorox told regulators on Monday that it is still dealing with production issues following a cyberattack that was announced one month ago. In regulatory filings with the SEC, the company said the cyberattack “damaged portions of the Company’s IT infrastructure, which caused widescale disruption of Clorox’s operations.” The company said it implemented […]