Apr 08, 2024NewsroomCybersecurity / Malvertising A new phishing campaign has set its eyes on the Latin American region to deliver malicious payloads to Windows systems. “The phishing email contained a ZIP file attachment that when extracted reveals an HTML file that leads to a malicious file download posing as an invoice,” Trustwave SpiderLabs researcher Karla […]
Mar 01, 2024NewsroomRootkit / Threat Intelligence The Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance has issued a new cybersecurity advisory warning of cyber threat actors exploiting known security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure gateways, noting that the Integrity Checker Tool (ICT) can be deceived to provide a false sense of security. “Ivanti ICT […]
Feb 27, 2024NewsroomCloud Security / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from the Five Eyes nations have released a joint advisory detailing the evolving tactics of the Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29. The hacking outfit, also known as BlueBravo, Cloaked Ursa, Cozy Bear, Midnight Blizzard (formerly Nobelium), and The Dukes, is assessed to […]
Oct 30, 2023NewsroomCloud Security / Cryptocurrency A new ongoing campaign dubbed EleKtra-Leak has set its eyes on exposed Amazon Web Service (AWS) identity and access management (IAM) credentials within public GitHub repositories to facilitate cryptojacking activities. “As a result of this, the threat actor associated with the campaign was able to create multiple AWS Elastic […]
The domestic intelligence chiefs of the Five Eyes alliance warned businesses on Tuesday that they were seeing a “sharp rise” in attempts by hostile states to steal intellectual property. Speaking on the same stage for the first time, at an event hosted by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the agency heads presented five principles […]
Sep 18, 2023THNCloud Security / Cryptocurrecy A novel cloud-native cryptojacking operation has set its eyes on uncommon Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings such as AWS Amplify, AWS Fargate, and Amazon SageMaker to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. The malicious cyber activity has been codenamed AMBERSQUID by cloud and container security firm Sysdig. “The AMBERSQUID operation was able […]