This article was updated at 12:45 p.m. EST Eleven Russian nationals alleged to have been part of the criminal group operating the Trickbot malware and Conti ransomware schemes were sanctioned Thursday by authorities in the United States and United Kingdom. The individuals targeted by the sanctions “include key actors involved in management and procurement for […]
Sep 07, 2023THNMalvertising / Endpoint Security A new malvertising campaign has been observed distributing an updated version of a macOS stealer malware called Atomic Stealer (or AMOS), indicating that it’s being actively maintained by its author. An off-the-shelf Golang malware available for $1,000 per month, Atomic Stealer first came to light in April 2023. Shortly […]
Sep 07, 2023THNServer Security / Vulnerability Patches have been released to address two new security vulnerabilities in Apache Superset that could be exploited by an attacker to gain remote code execution on affected systems. The update (version 2.1.1) plugs CVE-2023-39265 and CVE-2023-37941, which make it possible to conduct nefarious actions once a bad actor is […]
Sep 07, 2023THNBotnet / Cyber Threat A Mirai botnet variant called Pandora has been observed infiltrating inexpensive Android-based TV sets and TV boxes and using them as part of a botnet to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Doctor Web said the compromises are likely to occur either during malicious firmware updates or when applications for […]
Sep 06, 2023THNCyber Threat / Malware The Iranian threat actor tracked as APT34 has been linked to a new phishing attack that leads to the deployment of a variant of a backdoor called SideTwist. “APT34 has a high level of attack technology, can design different intrusion methods for different types of targets, and has supply […]
Since September 2022, our team has been tracking a bogus URL shortener redirect campaign that started with just a single domain: ois[.]is. By the beginning of 2023, this malware campaign had expanded to over a hundred domain names to redirect traffic to low quality Q&A sites and monetize traffic via Google AdSense. In fact, since […]
Sep 06, 2023THNVulnerability / ICS Nine security flaws have been disclosed in electric power management products made by Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL). “The most severe of those nine vulnerabilities would allow a threat actor to facilitate remote code execution (RCE) on an engineering workstation,” Nozomi Networks said in a report published last week. The issues, […]
Sep 06, 2023THNCyber Crime / Email Security A previously undocumented “phishing empire” has been linked to cyber attacks aimed at compromising Microsoft 365 business email accounts over the past six years. “The threat actor created a hidden underground market, named W3LL Store, that served a closed community of at least 500 threat actors who could […]
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