South Korean police have revealed a major hacking campaign which saw defense secrets stolen by hackers from the north over the period of a year. A report from the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) published yesterday blamed the campaign on three North Korean state-backed groups: Lazarus, Kimsuky and Andariel. Local reports claimed they targeted as […]
The clearnet domain of the notorious BreachForums data leak and hacking forum has been taken down by rival threat actors. The threat actor group, R00TK1T, along with the pro-Russian gang Cyber Army of Russia, announced a breach of user data following the BreachForums take down. R00TK1T was previously responsible for an attack campaign targeting the […]
Israeli citizens received threatening text messages purportedly from an Iranian-backed hacking team warning that it has hijacked the nation’s radar systems, stating: “You have only a few hours to fix the systems.” The so-called Handala threat group alleged in a message on Telegram that it sent 500,000 text message warnings to Israeli citizens, which contains […]
A proof of concept exploit was shared on the XSS hacking forum explaining that a typo in the source code for Telegram for Windows could be exploited to send Python .pyzw files that bypass security warnings when clicked.
The attacker, known as ‘ph1ns’, leaked the stolen database on a hacking forum. Acer acknowledged the breach and stated that the compromised data was not acquired directly from their systems.
An Iranian state-backed hacking group recently infiltrated a company that makes academic administration software and used that access to intimidate other Israeli organizations, analysts said on Thursday. The overall goal of the operation appeared to be hacktivism and not necessarily financial gain, according to OP Innovate, the Israeli company that investigated the incident. In November, […]
The North Korean hacking group Kimsuky is using newly disclosed ScreenConnect vulnerabilities to deploy a polymorphic malware variant called ToddleShark for espionage and data theft.
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 […]
Feb 29, 2024NewsroomMalware / Endpoint Security The notorious North Korean state-backed hacking group Lazarus uploaded four packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository with the goal of infecting developer systems with malware. The packages, now taken down, are pycryptoenv, pycryptoconf, quasarlib, and swapmempool. They have been collectively downloaded 3,269 times, with pycryptoconf accounting for […]