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Dec 02, 2023Newsroom Organizations in the Middle East, Africa, and the U.S. have been targeted by an unknown threat actor to distribute a new backdoor called Agent Racoon. “This malware family is written using the .NET framework and leverages the domain name service (DNS) protocol to create a covert channel and provide different backdoor functionalities,” […]
Dec 02, 2023NewsroomCybercrime / Malware A Russian national has been found guilty in connection with his role in developing and deploying a malware known as TrickBot, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced. Vladimir Dunaev, 40, was arrested in South Korea in September 2021 and extradited to the U.S. a month later. “Dunaev developed browser […]
Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the company’s recent data breach. In a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published Friday, the company said that, based on its investigation into the incident, it had determined that hackers had accessed 0.1% of its customer […]
Kimsuky is known for its aggressive social engineering tactics and targets governments, nuclear organizations, and foreign relations entities to gather intelligence for North Korea’s interests.
A cyberespionage group known as XDSpy recently targeted Russian military-industrial enterprises, according to new research. XDSpy is believed to be a state-controlled threat actor, active since 2011, that primarily attacks countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In its latest campaign in November, hackers attempted to gain access to the systems of a Russian metallurgical […]
Can getting ChatGPT to repeat the same word over and over again cause it to regurgitate large amounts of its training data, including personally identifiable information and other data scraped from the Web? The answer is an emphatic yes, according to a team of researchers at Google DeepMind, Cornell University, and four other universities who […]
Governance & Risk Management , Managed Detection & Response (MDR) , Security Operations Deal Will Expand BlueVoyant’s Footprint in US Government, Defense Industrial Base Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • November 29, 2023 BlueVoyant CEO Jim Rosenthal and Conquest Cyber President Jeff Engle (Images: BlueVoyant) BlueVoyant has purchased an adaptive risk management vendor led by […]
Executive Summary Unit 42 researchers observed a series of apparently related attacks against organizations in the Middle East, Africa and the U.S. We will discuss a set of tools used in the course of the attacks that reveal clues about the threat actors’ activity. We are sharing this research to provide detection, prevention and hunting […]
Foreign interference groups are attempting to build and reach online audiences ahead of a number of significant elections next year, “and we need to remain alert,” Meta warned on Thursday. National elections are set to be held in the United States, United Kingdom and India — three of the world’s largest economies — as well […]