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Threat actors affiliated with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) have targeted unpatched JetBrains TeamCity servers in widespread attacks since September 2023. The activity has been tied to a nation-state group known as APT29, which is also tracked as BlueBravo, Cloaked Ursa, Cozy Bear, Midnight Blizzard (formerly Nobelium), and The Dukes. It’s notable for the

Dec 13, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Geopolitics Ukraine’s biggest telecom operator Kyivstar has become the victim of a cyber attack, disrupting customer access to mobile and internet services. “The cyberattack on Ukraine’s #Kyivstar telecoms operator has impacted all regions of the country with high impact to the capital, metrics show, with knock-on impacts reported to air

Dec 12, 2023NewsroomCryptocurrency / Cyber Attack A phishing campaign has been observed delivering an information stealer malware called MrAnon Stealer to unsuspecting victims via seemingly benign booking-themed PDF lures. “This malware is a Python-based information stealer compressed with cx-Freeze to evade detection,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said. “MrAnon Stealer steals its victims’ credentials,

Dec 11, 2023The Hacker News In the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, one method stands out for its chilling effectiveness – social engineering. But why does it work so well? The answer lies in the intricate dance between the attacker’s mind and human psychology. Our upcoming webinar, “Think Like a Hacker, Defend Like a Pro,” highlights this

Dec 09, 2023NewsroomCyber Threat / Hardware Security Researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have disclosed a new side-channel attack called SLAM that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from kernel memory on current and upcoming CPUs from Intel, AMD, and Arm. The attack is an end-to-end exploit for Spectre based on a new feature

Dec 09, 2023NewsroomMalware / Cyberattack Threat hunters have unmasked the latest tricks adopted by a malware strain called GuLoader in an effort to make analysis more challenging. “While GuLoader’s core functionality hasn’t changed drastically over the past few years, these constant updates in their obfuscation techniques make analyzing GuLoader a time-consuming and resource-intensive process,” Elastic

Dec 08, 2023NewsroomEndpoint Security / Malware Unauthorized websites distributing trojanized versions of cracked software have been found to infect Apple macOS users with a new Trojan-Proxy malware. “Attackers can use this type of malware to gain money by building a proxy server network or to perform criminal acts on behalf of the victim: to launch

Dec 07, 2023The Hacker NewsMalware / Security Breach A previously unknown Linux remote access trojan called Krasue has been observed targeting telecom companies in Thailand by threat actors to main covert access to victim networks at lease since 2021. Named after a nocturnal female spirit of Southeast Asian folklore, the malware is “able to conceal

Dec 06, 2023NewsroomSoftware Security / Vulnerability Atlassian has released software fixes to address four critical flaws in its software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The list of vulnerabilities is below – CVE-2022-1471 (CVSS score: 9.8) – Deserialization vulnerability in SnakeYAML library that can lead to remote code execution in multiple

Dec 05, 2023NewsroomSoftware Security / Supply Chain New research has found that over 15,000 Go module repositories on GitHub are vulnerable to an attack called repojacking. “More than 9,000 repositories are vulnerable to repojacking due to GitHub username changes,” Jacob Baines, chief technology officer at VulnCheck, said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

Dec 04, 2023NewsroomTechnology / Firmware Security The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) code from various independent firmware/BIOS vendors (IBVs) has been found vulnerable to potential attacks through high-impact flaws in image parsing libraries embedded into the firmware. The shortcomings, collectively labeled LogoFAIL by Binarly, “can be used by threat actors to deliver a malicious payload

Dec 02, 2023NewsroomCybercrime / Malware A Russian national has been found guilty in connection with his role in developing and deploying a malware known as TrickBot, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced. Vladimir Dunaev, 40, was arrested in South Korea in September 2021 and extradited to the U.S. a month later. “Dunaev developed browser

Dec 02, 2023Newsroom Organizations in the Middle East, Africa, and the U.S. have been targeted by an unknown threat actor to distribute a new backdoor called Agent Racoon. “This malware family is written using the .NET framework and leverages the domain name service (DNS) protocol to create a covert channel and provide different backdoor functionalities,”

Dec 01, 2023NewsroomCyber Espionage / Cryptocurrency The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday sanctioned the North Korea-linked adversarial collective known as Kimsuky as well as eight foreign-based agents who are alleged to have facilitated sanctions evasion. The agents, the Treasury said, helped in “revenue generation and missile-related technology

Nov 30, 2023NewsroomHacking / Cryptocurrency The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions against Sinbad, a virtual currency mixer that has been put to use by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group to launder ill-gotten proceeds. “Sinbad has processed millions of dollars’ worth of virtual currency from Lazarus Group heists, including the Horizon Bridge and Axie

Nov 29, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Data Breach Identity services provider Okta has disclosed that it detected “additional threat actor activity” in connection with the October 2023 breach of its support case management system. “The threat actor downloaded the names and email addresses of all Okta customer support system users,” the company said in a statement

Nov 28, 2023NewsroomMalware / Cyber Espionage The North Korean threat actors behind macOS malware strains such as RustBucket and KANDYKORN have been observed “mixing and matching” different elements of the two disparate attack chains, leveraging RustBucket droppers to deliver KANDYKORN. The findings come from cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, which also tied a third macOS-specific malware called

Nov 27, 2023NewsroomArtificial Intelligence / Privacy The U.K. and U.S., along with international partners from 16 other countries, have released new guidelines for the development of secure artificial intelligence (AI) systems. “The approach prioritizes ownership of security outcomes for customers, embraces radical transparency and accountability, and establishes organizational structures where secure design is a top

Nov 25, 2023NewsroomData Security / Vulnerability The maintainers of the open-source file-sharing software ownCloud have warned of three critical security flaws that could be exploited to disclose sensitive information and modify files. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is as follows – Disclosure of sensitive credentials and configuration in containerized deployments impacting graphapi versions from

Nov 25, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Threat Intelligence An unspecified government entity in Afghanistan was targeted by a previously undocumented web shell called HrServ in what’s suspected to be an advanced persistent threat (APT) attack. The web shell, a dynamic-link library (DLL) named “hrserv.dll,” exhibits “sophisticated features such as custom encoding methods for client communication and

Nov 24, 2023NewsroomCloud security / Data Protection Cybersecurity researchers are warning of publicly exposed Kubernetes configuration secrets that could put organizations at risk of supply chain attacks. “These encoded Kubernetes configuration secrets were uploaded to public repositories,” Aqua security researchers Yakir Kadkoda and Assaf Morag said in a new research published earlier this week. Some

Nov 23, 2023NewsroomSoftware Supply Chain Attack A North Korean state-sponsored threat actor tracked as Diamond Sleet is distributing a trojanized version of a legitimate application developed by a Taiwanese multimedia software developer called CyberLink to target downstream customers via a supply chain attack. “This malicious file is a legitimate CyberLink application installer that has been

Nov 22, 2023NewsroomSEO poisoning / Malware Analysis The macOS information stealer known as Atomic is now being delivered to target via a bogus web browser update chain tracked as ClearFake. “This may very well be the first time we see one of the main social engineering campaigns, previously reserved for Windows, branch out not only

Android smartphone users in India are the target of a new malware campaign that employs social engineering lures to install fraudulent apps that are capable of harvesting sensitive data. “Using social media platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, attackers are sending messages designed to lure users into installing a malicious app on their mobile device by

An Indian hack-for-hire group targeted the U.S., China, Myanmar, Pakistan, Kuwait, and other countries as part of a wide-ranging espionage, surveillance, and disruptive operation for over a decade. The Appin Software Security (aka Appin Security Group), according to an in-depth analysis from SentinelOne, began as an educational startup offering offensive security training programs, while carrying

The threat actors behind the 8Base ransomware are leveraging a variant of the Phobos ransomware to conduct their financially motivated attacks. The findings come from Cisco Talos, which has recorded an increase in activity carried out by cybercriminals. “Most of the group’s Phobos variants are distributed by SmokeLoader, a backdoor trojan,” security researcher Guilherme Venere

Nov 18, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / USB Worm Russian cyber espionage actors affiliated with the Federal Security Service (FSB) have been observed using a USB propagating worm called LitterDrifter in attacks targeting Ukrainian entities. Check Point, which detailed Gamaredon’s (aka Aqua Blizzard, Iron Tilden, Primitive Bear, Shuckworm, and Winterflounder) latest tactics, branded the group as engaging

Nov 17, 2023NewsroomRansomware / Cybercrime U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have released a joint advisory about a cybercriminal group known as Scattered Spider that’s known to employ sophisticated phishing tactics to infiltrate targets. “Scattered Spider threat actors typically engage in data theft for extortion using multiple social engineering techniques and have recently leveraged BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware

Nov 16, 2023NewsroomCyber Warfare / Threat Intelligence Russian threat actors have been possibly linked to what’s been described as the “largest cyber attack against Danish critical infrastructure,” in which 22 companies associated with the operation of the country’s energy sector were targeted in May 2023. “22 simultaneous, successful cyberattacks against Danish critical infrastructure are not

Nov 15, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Hardware Security Intel has released fixes to close out a high-severity flaw codenamed Reptar that impacts its desktop, mobile, and server CPUs. Tracked as CVE-2023-23583 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has the potential to “allow escalation of privilege and/or information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.” Successful exploitation of