Month: September 2023

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Video During the attack, the group deployed several tools, most notably a newly-discovered sophisticated backdoor that ESET named LightlessCan 29 Sep 2023 This week, ESET researchers unveiled their findings about an attack by the North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus that took aim at an aerospace company in Spain. The group obtained initial access to the
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The Russian firm Operation Zero has announced a staggering $20m reward for hacking tools capable of compromising iPhones and Android devices.  The company unveiled this increased payout on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday, aiming to attract top-tier researchers and developer teams to collaborate with their platform. Under this program, Operation Zero is willing to pay
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Sep 30, 2023THNCyber Espionage / Malware Sophisticated cyber actors backed by Iran known as OilRig have been linked to a spear-phishing campaign that infects victims with a new strain of malware called Menorah. “The malware was designed for cyberespionage, capable of identifying the machine, reading and uploading files from the machine, and downloading another file
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The UK’s information commissioner has called for an immediate end to the use of excel spreadsheets to publish Freedom of Information (FOI) data. The data protection regulator issued an advisory notice yesterday to all public authorities in the wake of a hugely damaging leak at the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) last month. Among other
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Sep 29, 2023THNArtificial Intelligence / Malware Malicious ads served inside Microsoft Bing’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot are being used to distribute malware when searching for popular tools. The findings come from Malwarebytes, which revealed that unsuspecting users can be tricked into visiting booby-trapped sites and installing malware directly from Bing Chat conversations. Introduced by Microsoft
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Secure Coding, Business Security Or, is mass public meddling just opening the door for problems? And how does open-source software compare to proprietary software in terms of security? 26 Sep 2023  •  , 5 min. read There are – and will always be – vulnerabilities in software. Just like there is no perfect security, there
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The US and Japanese authorities have urged multi-nationals to consider implementing zero trust models to mitigate a sophisticated Chinese state-backed cyber-espionage operation. The advisory was issued yesterday by the NSA, FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Japan National Police Agency (NPA) and the Japan National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity
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Sep 28, 2023THNZero Day / Vulnerability Google on Wednesday rolled out fixes to address a new actively exploited zero-day in the Chrome browser. Tracked as CVE-2023-5217, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow in the VP8 compression format in libvpx, a free software video codec library from Google and the Alliance
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Russian cyber-attacks against Ukraine skyrocketed in the first half of 2023, with 762 incidents observed by Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP). This represents a 123% surge compared with the second half of 2022. However, the SSSCIP also found that these attacks were significantly less successful than in the past, with
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Sep 27, 2023THNMalware / Cyber Threat A new malware strain called ZenRAT has emerged in the wild that’s distributed via bogus installation packages of the Bitwarden password manager. “The malware is specifically targeting Windows users and will redirect people using other hosts to a benign web page,” enterprise security firm Proofpoint said in a technical
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Fear, ignorance and forgetfulness are some of the reasons for widespread shortcomings in reporting cyber-attacks and breaches, both internally and externally, according to a new global survey conducted by Keeper Security. The study, Cybersecurity Disasters Survey Incident Reporting & Disclosure, was published on September 26, 2023. It found that, despite cyber-attacks being top of mind
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Sep 26, 2023THNCyber Espionage / Malware A “multi-year” Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage campaign has been observed targeting South Korean academic, political, and government organizations. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, which is tracking the activity under the moniker TAG-74, said the adversary has been linked to “Chinese military intelligence and poses a significant threat to academic, aerospace
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A Nigerian extradited to the US had pleaded guilty to his part in a multimillion-dollar business email compromise (BEC) conspiracy. Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, 29, pleaded guilty late last week to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. From February to July 2017, he conspired with several others, including some living in
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An unnamed Southeast Asian government has been targeted by multiple China-nexus threat actors as part of espionage campaigns targeting the region over extended periods of time. “While this activity occurred around the same time and in some instances even simultaneously on the same victims’ machines, each cluster is characterized by distinct tools, modus operandi and
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Video Two ESET malware researchers took to the LABScon stage this year to deconstruct sophisticated attacks conducted by two well-known APT groups 22 Sep 2023 The lineup of speakers at this year’s edition of LABScon featured two ESET malware researchers who took to the stage to deconstruct sophisticated attacks conducted by two well-known APT groups.
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Sep 23, 2023THNCyber Espionage / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented advanced backdoor dubbed Deadglyph employed by a threat actor known as Stealth Falcon as part of a cyber espionage campaign. “Deadglyph’s architecture is unusual as it consists of cooperating components – one a native x64 binary, the other a .NET assembly,” ESET
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in collaboration with the National Football League (NFL), Allegiant Stadium and Super Bowl LVIII partners, has conducted a cybersecurity tabletop exercise this week in preparation for Super Bowl LVIII. The exercise aimed to assess and enhance cybersecurity response capabilities, plans and procedures for the upcoming event. The Super
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A US government contractor working as an IT administrator at the State department is facing a maximum penalty of death or life in prison after being arrested on serious espionage charges. Abraham Teklu Lemma, 50, of Silver Spring, Maryland, has been charged with delivering national defense information to aid a foreign government, conspiracy to deliver
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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
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The typical business in the US and UK loses over 4% of their online revenue every year due to malicious bot attacks, according to a new report from Netacea. The firm’s Death by a Billion Bots report was compiled from a survey of 440 businesses with an average online revenue of $1.9bn across the travel,
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday confirmed the discovery of suspicious activity inside its IT network but revealed little else of a worrying security breach last week. The Netherlands-headquartered tribunal, which tries suspects of war crimes and crimes against humanity, posted a brief statement to X (formerly Twitter). “At the end of last week, the International