Cybersecurity

Ukraine Targeted in Cyberattack Exploiting 7-Year-Old Microsoft Office Flaw

Apr 27, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a targeted operation against Ukraine that has been found leveraging a nearly seven-year-old flaw in Microsoft Office to deliver Cobalt Strike on compromised systems. The attack chain, which took place at the end of 2023 according to Deep Instinct, employs a PowerPoint slideshow file (“signal-2023-12-20-160512.ppsx”) […]

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Uncorking Old Wine: Zero-Day from 2017 + Cobalt Strike Loader in Unholy Alliance

Executive Summary The Deep Instinct Threat Lab discovered a suspected targeted operation against Ukraine The operation is using CVE-2017-8570 as the initial vector The operation could not be attributed to any known threat actor The operation used a custom loader for Cobalt Strike Beacon Deep Instinct is detecting all stages of the attack Campaign Overview […]

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TA547 Phishing Attack Hits German Firms with Rhadamanthys Stealer

Apr 11, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Ransomware A threat actor tracked as TA547 has targeted dozens of German organizations with an information stealer called Rhadamanthys as part of an invoice-themed phishing campaign. “This is the first time researchers observed TA547 use Rhadamanthys, an information stealer that is used by multiple cybercriminal threat actors,” Proofpoint said. “Additionally, […]

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Russian independent media outlet Meduza faces ‘most intense cyber campaign’ ever

The Russian independent media organization Meduza said that it has been targeted by an “unprecedented” cyber campaign ahead of the upcoming presidential election this month. “In February 2024, the Russian authorities launched a series of cyberattacks against Meduza, more intense than any we’ve ever faced,” the organization said in a statement on Monday. The campaign […]

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Ransomware attacks are hitting critical infrastructure more often, FBI says

Dive Brief: More than 2 in 5 ransomware attacks reported to the FBI in 2023 targeted organizations in a critical infrastructure sector, the agency said Thursday in its annual Internet Crime Report. Of the 2,825 ransomware attacks reported to the FBI last year, 1,193 hit critical infrastructure organizations. The proportion of ransomware attacks hitting critical […]