Cybersecurity

DarkBeatC2: The Latest MuddyWater Attack Framework

During the “Swords of Iron War” against Hamas terrorists, Iranian threat actors increased the intensity of their “hack and leak” fake hacktivist operations against Israeli companies in the private sector. This blog post highlights some of the recent attacks conducted and provides an analysis of “DarkBeatC2,” the latest C2 framework in MuddyWater’s arsenal. Executive Summary […]

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Beware: GitHub’s Fake Popularity Scam Tricking Developers into Downloading Malware

Apr 10, 2024NewsroomSoftware Security / Supply Chain Attack Threat actors are now taking advantage of GitHub’s search functionality to trick unsuspecting users looking for popular repositories into downloading spurious counterparts that serve malware. The latest assault on the open-source software supply chain involves concealing malicious code within Microsoft Visual Code project files that’s designed to […]

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Critical Flaws Leave 92,000 D-Link NAS Devices Vulnerable to Malware Attacks

Apr 09, 2024NewsroomBotnet / Vulnerability Threat actors are actively scanning and exploiting a pair of security flaws that are said to affect as many as 92,000 internet-exposed D-Link network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Tracked as CVE-2024-3272 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2024-3273 (CVSS score: 7.3), the vulnerabilities impact legacy D-Link products that have reached end-of-life (EoL) status. […]

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Hackers Exploit Magento Bug to Steal Payment Data from E-commerce Websites

Apr 06, 2024NewsroomSkimmer / Threat Intelligence Threat actors have been found exploiting a critical flaw in Magento to inject a persistent backdoor into e-commerce websites. The attack leverages CVE-2024-20720 (CVSS score: 9.1), which has been described by Adobe as a case of “improper neutralization of special elements” that could pave the way for arbitrary code […]

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Researchers Identify Multiple China Hacker Groups Exploiting Ivanti Security Flaws

Apr 05, 2024NewsroomAdvanced Persistent Threat Multiple China-nexus threat actors have been linked to the zero-day exploitation of three security flaws impacting Ivanti appliances (CVE-2023-46805, CVE-2024-21887, and CVE-2024-21893). The clusters are being tracked by Mandiant under the monikers UNC5221, UNC5266, UNC5291, UNC5325, UNC5330, and UNC5337. Another group linked to the exploitation spree is UNC3886. The Google […]

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Critical Unpatched Ray AI Platform Vulnerability Exploited for Cryptocurrency Mining

Cybersecurity researchers are warning that threat actors are actively exploiting a “disputed” and unpatched vulnerability in an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform called Anyscale Ray to hijack computing power for illicit cryptocurrency mining. “This vulnerability allows attackers to take over the companies’ computing power and leak sensitive data,” Oligo Security researchers Avi Lumelsky, Guy Kaplan, […]