Cybersecurity

Novel Ahoi attacks could compromise confidential VMs

Confidential virtual machines could be breached through two different types of novel Ahoi attacks, reports SecurityWeek. Intrusions leveraging the first technique, dubbed “Heckler,” involved the targeting of hardware-based trusted execution environments running on Intel’s Trust Domain Extensions and AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging technologies with malicious hypervisors that sought to facilitate authentication evasion and […]

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Hackers Target macOS Users with Malicious Ads Spreading Stealer Malware

Mar 30, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cryptocurrency Malicious ads and bogus websites are acting as a conduit to deliver two different stealer malware, including Atomic Stealer, targeting Apple macOS users. The ongoing infostealer attacks targeting macOS users may have adopted different methods to compromise victims’ Macs, but operate with the end goal of stealing sensitive data, Jamf […]

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Chinese Hackers Exploiting Ivanti VPN Flaws to Deploy New Malware

At least two different suspected China-linked cyber espionage clusters, tracked as UNC5325 and UNC3886, have been attributed to the exploitation of security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliances. UNC5325 abused CVE-2024-21893 to deliver a wide range of new malware called LITTLELAMB.WOOLTEA, PITSTOP, PITDOG, PITJET, and PITHOOK, as well as attempted to maintain persistent access […]

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Nation-State Actors Weaponize Ivanti VPN Zero-Days, Deploying 5 Malware Families

Jan 12, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Threat Intelligence As many as five different malware families were deployed by suspected nation-state actors as part of post-exploitation activities leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN appliances since early December 2023. “These families allow the threat actors to circumvent authentication and provide backdoor access to these devices,” […]

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Nation-State Actors Weaponize Ivanti VPN Zero-Days, Deploying 5 Malware Families

Jan 12, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Threat Intelligence As many as five different malware families were deployed by suspected nation-state actors as part of post-exploitation activities leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN appliances since early December 2023. “These families allow the threat actors to circumvent authentication and provide backdoor access to these devices,” […]

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Iranian Nation-State Actor OilRig Targets Israeli Organizations

Sep 22, 2023THNCyber Attack / Malware Israeli organizations were targeted as part of two different campaigns orchestrated by the Iranian nation-state actor known as OilRig in 2021 and 2022. The campaigns, dubbed Outer Space and Juicy Mix, entailed the use of two previously documented first-stage backdoors called Solar and Mango, which were deployed to collect […]