Cybersecurity

Cybercriminals Using PowerShell to Steal NTLMv2 Hashes from Compromised Windows

Sep 11, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Malware A new cyber attack campaign is leveraging the PowerShell script associated with a legitimate red teaming tool to plunder NTLMv2 hashes from compromised Windows systems primarily located in Australia, Poland, and Belgium. The activity has been codenamed Steal-It by Zscaler ThreatLabz. “In this campaign, the threat actors steal and […]

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Outlook Breach: Microsoft Reveals How a Crash Dump Led to a Major Security Breach

Sep 07, 2023THNCyber Attack / Email Hacking Microsoft on Wednesday revealed that a China-based threat actor known as Storm-0558 acquired the inactive consumer signing key to forge tokens and access Outlook by compromising an engineer’s corporate account. This enabled the adversary to access a debugging environment that contained information pertaining to a crash of the […]

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Threat Actors Target NPM, PyPI, and RubyGems Developers | Cyware Hacker News

Not one, not two, but three open-source software registries have come under attack at once in an organized cybercrime operation aimed at macOS users. A criminal group has uploaded harmful packages to PyPI, NPM, and RubyGems repositories to target respective developers. What happened? While scrutinizing the source code and metadata of registry-pushed packages, cybersecurity experts […]

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Ukraine’s CERT Thwarts APT28’s Cyberattack on Critical Energy Infrastructure

Sep 06, 2023THNCyber Attack / Critical Infrastructure The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) on Tuesday said it thwarted a cyber attack against an unnamed critical energy infrastructure facility in the country. The intrusion, per the agency, started with a phishing email containing a link to a malicious ZIP archive that activates the infection […]