Cybersecurity

Alert: Cybercriminals Deploying VCURMS and STRRAT Trojans via AWS and GitHub

Mar 13, 2024NewsroomPhishing Attack / Threat Intelligence A new phishing campaign has been observed delivering remote access trojans (RAT) such as VCURMS and STRRAT by means of a malicious Java-based downloader. “The attackers stored malware on public services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and GitHub, employing a commercial protector to avoid detection of the malware,” […]

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Malware Campaign Exploits Popup Builder WordPress Plugin to Infect 3,900+ Sites

Mar 12, 2024NewsroomWordPress / Website Security A new malware campaign is leveraging a high-severity security flaw in the Popup Builder plugin for WordPress to inject malicious JavaScript code. According to Sucuri, the campaign has infected more than 3,900 sites over the past three weeks. “These attacks are orchestrated from domains less than a month old, […]

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Dropbox Used to Steal Credentials and Bypass MFA in Phishing Campaign

A novel phishing campaign leveraged legitimate Dropbox infrastructure and successfully bypassed multifactor authentication (MFA) protocols, new research from Darktrace has revealed. The attack highlights the growing exploitation of legitimate popular services to trick targets into downloading malware and revealing log in credentials. The findings also show how attackers are becoming adept at evading standard security […]

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Evasive Panda leverages Monlam Festival to target Tibetans

ESET researchers discovered a cyberespionage campaign that, since at least September 2023, has been victimizing Tibetans through a targeted watering hole (also known as a strategic web compromise), and a supply-chain compromise to deliver trojanized installers of Tibetan language translation software. The attackers aimed to deploy malicious downloaders for Windows and macOS to compromise website […]

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U.S. authorities charged an Iranian national for long-running hacking campaign

U.S. authorities charged an Iranian national for long-running hacking campaign Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2024 The U.S. DoJ charged Iranian national Alireza Shafie Nasab for his role in attacks targeting U.S. government and defense entities. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) charged Iranian national Alireza Shafie Nasab (39) for multi-year hacking campaign targeting U.S. defense […]