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Cyber-espionage group Cloud Atlas targets Russian companies with war-related phishing attacks

The hacker group known as Cloud Atlas targeted a Russian agro-industrial enterprise and a state-owned research company in a new espionage campaign, researchers have found. Cloud Atlas is a state-backed threat actor, active since at least 2014, that mostly attacks organizations in Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Slovenia. In its new campaign, the hackers sent […]

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Rogue WordPress Plugin Exposes E-Commerce Sites to Credit Card Theft

Dec 22, 2023NewsroomSkimming / Web Security Threat hunters have discovered a rogue WordPress plugin that’s capable of creating bogus administrator users and injecting malicious JavaScript code to steal credit card information. The skimming activity is part of a Magecart campaign targeting e-commerce websites, according to Sucuri. “As with many other malicious or fake WordPress plugins […]

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Android Banking Trojan Chameleon can now bypass any Biometric Authentication

Introduction In January 2023, the Chameleon Banking Trojan emerged as a significant threat, employing various distribution methods to infiltrate the Android ecosystem, with a specific focus on users in Australia and Poland. Aptly named “Chameleon,” this Trojan showcases its adaptability through multiple new commands, including the examination of app package names. Its primary targets are […]

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Operation RusticWeb: Rust-Based Malware Targets Indian Government Entities

Dec 22, 2023NewsroomMalware / Cyber Threat Indian government entities and the defense sector have been targeted by a phishing campaign that’s engineered to drop Rust-based malware for intelligence gathering. The activity, first detected in October 2023, has been codenamed Operation RusticWeb by enterprise security firm SEQRITE. “New Rust-based payloads and encrypted PowerShell commands have been […]

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Decoy Microsoft Word Documents Used to Deliver Nim-Based Malware

Dec 22, 2023NewsroomSocial Engineering / Malware Analysis A new phishing campaign is leveraging decoy Microsoft Word documents as bait to deliver a backdoor written in the Nim programming language. “Malware written in uncommon programming languages puts the security community at a disadvantage as researchers and reverse engineers’ unfamiliarity can hamper their investigation,” Netskope researchers Ghanashyam […]

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Iran’s Peach Sandstorm Deploy FalseFont Backdoor in Defense Sector

In its latest campaign, Iranian state-backed hackers, Peach Sandstorm, employs FalseFont backdoor for intelligence gathering on behalf of the Iranian government. Cybersecurity researchers at Microsoft Threat Intelligence Unit have uncovered the latest activities of the Iranian nation-state actor Peach Sandstorm, also known as HOLMIUM. The group has been making efforts to deploy a newly developed […]