China-linked APT Flew Under Radar for Decade
Evidence suggests that a just-discovered APT has been active since 2013. [...]
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M1 Chip Vulnerability
This is a new vulnerability against Apple’s M1 chip. Researchers say that it is unpatchable. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, however, have created a novel hardware attack, which combines memory corruption and speculative execution attacks to sidestep the security feature. The attack shows …
Linux Malware Deemed ‘Nearly Impossible’ to Detect
Symbiote, discovered in November, parasitically infects running processes so it can steal credentials, gain rootlkit functionality and install a backdoor for remote access. [...]
Potent Emotet Variant Spreads Via Stolen Email Credentials
The dangerous malware appears to be well and truly back in action, sporting new variants and security-dodging behaviors in a wave of recent phishing campaigns. [...]
Paying Ransomware Paints Bigger Bullseye on Target’s Back
Ransomware attackers often strike targets twice, regardless of whether the ransom was paid. [...]
Black Basta Ransomware Teams Up with Malware Stalwart Qbot
The novel cybercriminal group tapped the ever-evolving info-stealing trojan to move laterally on a network in a recent attack, researchers have found. [...]
Old Hacks Die Hard: Ransomware, Social Engineering Top Verizon DBIR Threats – Again
Deja-Vu data from this year's DBIR report feels like we are stuck in the movie 'Groundhog Day.' [...]
Evil Corp Pivots LockBit to Dodge U.S. Sanctions
The cybercriminal group is distancing itself from its previous branding by shifting tactics and tools once again in an aim to continue to profit from its nefarious activity. [...]
Remotely Controlling Touchscreens
Researchers have demonstrated controlling touchscreens at a distance, at least in a laboratory setting: The core idea is to take advantage of the electromagnetic signals to execute basic touch events such as taps and swipes into targeted locations of the touchscreen with the goal of taking over remote control …
International Authorities Take Down Flubot Malware Network
The info-stealing trojan used SMS messages and lifted contact credentials to spread with unprecedented speed across Android devices globally since December 2020. [...]
EnemyBot Malware Targets Web Servers, CMS Tools and Android OS
Malware borrows generously from code used by other botnets such as Mirai, Qbot and Zbot. [...]
Zero-Day ‘Follina’ Bug Lays Microsoft Office Open to Attack
Malware loads itself from remote servers and bypasses Microsoft's Defender AV scanner, according to reports. [...]
Zero-Day ‘Follina’ Bug Lays Older Microsoft Office Versions Open to Attack
Malware loads itself from remote servers and bypasses Microsoft's Defender AV scanner, according to reports. [...]
Malware-Infested Smart Card Reader
Brian Krebs has an interesting story of a smart ID card reader with a malware-infested Windows driver, and US government employees who inadvertently buy and use them. But by all accounts, the potential attack surface here is enormous, as many federal employees clearly will purchase these readers from a …
Cybergang Claims REvil is Back, Executes DDoS Attacks
Actors claiming to be the defunct ransomware group are targeting one of Akami’s customers with a Layer 7 attack, demanding an extortion payment in Bitcoin. [...]
Link Found Connecting Chaos, Onyx and Yashma Ransomware
A slip-up by a malware author has allowed researchers to taxonomize three ransomware variations going by different names. [...]
Verizon Report: Ransomware, Human Error Among Top Security Risks
2022’s DBIR also highlighted the far-reaching impact of supply-chain breaches and how organizations and their employees are the reasons why incidents occur. [...]
Fronton IOT Botnet Packs Disinformation Punch
Fronton botnet has far more ability than launching DDOS attack, can track social media trends and launch suitable propaganda. [...]
Snake Keylogger Spreads Through Malicious PDFs
Microsoft Word also leveraged in the email campaign, which uses a 22-year-old Office RCE bug. [...]
DOJ Says Doctor is Malware Mastermind
The U.S. Department of Justice indites middle-aged doctor, accusing him of being a malware mastermind. [...]
April VMware Bugs Abused to Deliver Mirai Malware, Exploit Log4Shell
Researchers say a GitHub proof-of-concept exploitation of recently announced VMware bugs is being abused by hackers in the wild. [...]
iPhone Malware that Operates Even When the Phone Is Turned Off
Researchers have demonstrated iPhone malware that works even when the phone is fully shut down. t turns out that the iPhone’s Bluetooth chip — which is key to making features like Find My work — has no mechanism for digitally signing or even encrypting the firmware it runs. Academics at …
Threat Actors Use Telegram to Spread ‘Eternity’ Malware-as-a-Service
An account promoting the project—which offers a range of threat activity from info-stealing to crypto-mining to ransomware as individual modules—has more than 500 subscribers. [...]
Malware Builder Leverages Discord Webhooks
Researchers discovered a simple malware builder designed to steal credentials, then pinging them to Discord webhooks. [...]
Novel ‘Nerbian’ Trojan Uses Advanced Anti-Detection Tricks
The stealthy, feature-rich malware has multistage evasion tactics to fly under the radar of security analysis, researchers at Proofpoint have found. [...]
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