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The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colony for accepting a USD $1.7 million bribe to ignore the activities of a prolific Russian cybercrime group that hacked thousands of e-commerce websites. The protection scheme show more ...
The threat actor is deploying multiple connections into victim environments to maintain persistence and steal data.
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Though organizations are increasingly incorporating zero-trust strategies, for many, these strategies fail to address the entirety of an operation, according to Gartner.
The irony is lost on few, as a Chinese threat actor used eight MITRE techniques to breach MITRE itself — including exploiting the Ivanti bugs that attackers have been swarming on for months.
An open direct vulnerability in the Nespresso Web domain lets attackers bypass detection as they attempt to steal victims' Microsoft credentials.
The new facility, details about which have not previously been reported, marks the fruition of a significant doctrinal shift in how the alliance approaches operations in cyberspace.
An operator of the HelloKitty ransomware operation announced they changed the name to 'HelloGookie,' releasing passwords for previously leaked CD Projekt source code, Cisco network information, and decryption keys from old attacks.
A New York federal jury found a hacker guilty of all charges that he masterminded and carried out a scheme to fraudulently obtain $110 million from cryptocurrency exchange Mango Markets and investors.
The agency is attributing the surge to a group tracked as UAC-0184, which was spotted in February targeting an unnamed Ukrainian entity in Finland. CERT-UA does not attribute UAC-0184’s activity to any specific foreign cyber threat group.
The hire marks another coup for the British public sector in poaching talent from the technology industry, particularly at the executive level, following the recruitment of Ollie Whitehouse as the NCSC’s chief technology officer earlier this year.
Researchers from cybersecurity firm DomainTools told Recorded Future News that they have found nearly 30 newly created domains related to tolls, 15 of which have a “high chance of being weaponized for phishing, malware, or spam.”
Threat actors are continuing to successfully breach across the entire attack surface. Around 93% of enterprises who admitted a breach reported unplanned downtime, data exposure, or financial loss as a result, according to a survey by Pentera.
Japan’s CERT warned that the WordPress plugin Forminator, developed by WPMU DEV, is affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including a flaw that allows unrestricted file uploads to the server.
Security experts say Western teenagers comprise a number of active affiliate groups, many with ties to the cybercrime community that calls itself "The Community," aka the Com or Comm.
A malware campaign was found injecting malicious JavaScript code into compromised WordPress sites to redirect site visitors to VexTrio domains, specifically using dynamic DNS TXT records of the tracker-cloud[.]com domain to obtain redirect URLs.
Threat actors created a website to impersonate UsenetClub, a subscription service for "uncensored" access to images and videos downloaded from Usenet. They claimed to provide free access to the site after the installation of a "CryptVPN" software.
New research has found that the DOS-to-NT path conversion process could be exploited by threat actors to achieve rootkit-like capabilities to conceal and impersonate files, directories, and processes.
The exploit occurs when referencing a private/local package, which inadvertently fetches a malicious package similarly named from the public registry due to misconfigurations in package managers.
A malicious PyPI package named "discordpy_bypass-1.7" was detected on March 12, 2024. This package is designed to extract sensitive information from user systems using a blend of persistence techniques, browser data extraction, and token harvesting.
A recent malware campaign used weaponized ZIP files to distribute the WINELOADER malware. The attackers send phishing emails with ZIP attachments that, when extracted, execute a PowerShell script to download and install the malware.
Androxgh0st operators are exploiting multiple CVEs, including CVE-2021-3129 and CVE-2024-1709 to deploy a web shell on vulnerable servers, granting remote control capabilities. Evidence also suggests active web shells associated with CVE-2019-2725.
New research has found that the DOS-to-NT path conversion process could be exploited by threat actors to achieve rootkit-like capabilities to conceal and impersonate files, directories, and processes. "When a user executes a function that has a path argument in Windows, the DOS path at which the file or folder exists is converted to an NT path," SafeBreach security researcher Or Yair said&
Microsoft has revealed that North Korea-linked state-sponsored cyber actors has begun to use artificial intelligence (AI) to make its operations more effective and efficient. "They are learning to use tools powered by AI large language models (LLM) to make their operations more efficient and effective," the tech giant said in its latest report on East Asia hacking groups. The company
Over the past two years, a shocking 51% of organizations surveyed in a leading industry report have been compromised by a cyberattack. Yes, over half. And this, in a world where enterprises deploy an average of 53 different security solutions to safeguard their digital domain. Alarming? Absolutely. A recent survey of CISOs and CIOs, commissioned by Pentera and
The MITRE Corporation revealed that it was the target of a nation-state cyber attack that exploited two zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure appliances starting in January 2024. The intrusion led to the compromise of its Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization Environment (NERVE), an unclassified research and prototyping network. The unknown adversary "performed reconnaissance
Between crossovers - Do threat actors play dirty or desperate? In our dataset of over 11,000 victim organizations that have experienced a Cyber Extortion / Ransomware attack, we noticed that some victims re-occur. Consequently, the question arises why we observe a re-victimization and whether or not this is an actual second attack, an affiliate crossover (meaning an affiliate has gone to
The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been observed using a wide range of tools to retain access to compromised environments and steal valuable data. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky characterized the adversary as relying on various programs to harvest data on an "industrial scale" from primarily governmental organizations, some of them defense related, located in
