Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles


Winter Vivern Launches Attacks Against Government Entities in Europe

03 April 2023
The Winter Vivern APT group was seen abusing a bug in the Zimbra Collaboration software to obtain secrets from the email inboxes of government agencies in European countries. The group uses scanning technologies like Acunetix to find unpatched webmail portals to attack potential victims. The XSS bug, CVE-2022-27926, impacts Zimbra Collaboration version 9.0.0.

Crypto-Stealing OpcJacker Malware Targets Users with Fake VPN Service

03 April 2023
A piece of new information-stealing malware called OpcJacker has been spotted in the wild since the second half of 2022 as part of a malvertising campaign. "OpcJacker's main functions include keylogging, taking screenshots, stealing sensitive data from browsers, loading additional modules, and replacing cryptocurrency addresses in the clipboard for hijacking purposes," Trend Micro researchers

OSC&R open software supply chain attack framework now on GitHub

03 April 2023
OSC&R is an open framework for understanding and evaluating software supply chain security threats. It has received the endorsement of former U.S. NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers and is now available on GitHub.

Update: North Korean Lazarus Group Linked to 3CX Supply Chain Hack

03 April 2023
Security researchers have uncovered more evidence that the North Korean Lazarus group is responsible for the software supply chain attack on 3CX, a voice and video-calling desktop client used by major multinational companies.

Ukrainian Hackers Trick Russian Military Wives for Personal Info

03 April 2023
The hackers convinced the wife of a serving colonel in the Russian military to participate in a patriotic photoshoot. She then convinced 12 more military wives to join, which allowed them to extract personal and sensitive information.

LockBit claims to leak data stolen from the South Korean National Tax Service

03 April 2023
On March 29, 2023, the ransomware gang announced the hack of the South Korean National Tax Service. It added the South Korean agency to its Tor leak site and announced the release of stolen data by April 1st, 2023 in case the ransom was not paid.

Hook, Line, and Sinker: Phishing Landscape in 2022

03 April 2023
Cofense released a report around the top phishing trends from 2022 and found that attackers largely preferred credential phishing as their primary attack method. The use of malware in these attacks increased by 44%, with Emotet and Qakbot being the most used malware families. Moreover, the total volume of scam URLs increased by 30% between 2021 and 2022.

Mustang Panda Cyberespionage Strikes Over 200 Targets

03 April 2023
Researchers discovered that a series of cyberespionage attacks launched by the subgroups of Earth Preta APT has affected over 200 organizations. While part of these subgroups is focused on stealing intellectual property and business information, others target government and diplomatic entities.

Operation Henhouse: Hundreds of arrests and millions in assets seized in month tackling fraud

01 April 2023
The NCA’s National Economic Crime Centre has led a successful operation working closely with the City of London Police and other policing partners against suspected fraudsters across the UK.

15 million public-facing services vulnerable to CISA KEV flaws

01 April 2023
This massive number is reported by cybersecurity company Rezilion, which conducted large-scale research to identify vulnerable systems exposed to cyberattacks from threat actors, whether state-sponsored or ransomware gangs.

Italy Temporarily Blocks ChatGPT Over Privacy Concerns

01 April 2023
Italy is temporarily blocking the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT in the wake of a data breach as it investigates a possible violation of stringent European Union data protection rules, the government’s privacy watchdog said Friday.

Microsoft Fixes New Azure AD Vulnerability Impacting Bing Search and Major Apps

01 April 2023
Microsoft has patched a misconfiguration issue impacting the Azure Active Directory (AAD) identity and access management service that exposed several "high-impact" applications to unauthorized access. "One of these apps is a content management system (CMS) that powers Bing.com and allowed us to not only modify search results, but also launch high-impact XSS attacks on Bing users," cloud security

Update: 10-year-old Windows bug with 'opt-in' fix exploited in 3CX attack

01 April 2023
A 10-year-old Windows vulnerability is still being exploited in attacks to make executables appear legitimately signed, with the fix from Microsoft still "opt-in" after all these years. Even worse, the fix is removed after upgrading to Windows 11.

New Cylance Ransomware Targets Linux and Windows, Warn Researchers

01 April 2023
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 discovered the new Cylance ransomware, which has already claimed several victims. Researchers noticed it early Friday morning, and further probing revealed that it is targeting Linux and Windows devices.

SCADAfence raises $16 million, adds Fujitsu and Mitsubishi Electric as new investors

01 April 2023
This new funding round will enable SCADAfence to continue scaling its global reach into new markets, increasing sales and support teams in key regions, and building stronger collaborative relationships with its strategic partners.

Ransomware Roundup – Dark Power and PayMe100USD Ransomware

01 April 2023
Dark Power is a relatively new ransomware written in the Nim programming language and launched in early February 2023. PayMe100USD is a new ransomware written in Python that was discovered in March 2023.

LeapXpert Banks $22M Funding to Secure Corporate Messaging With Consumer Apps

01 April 2023
The company said the Series A financing was led by Rockefeller Asset Management through its Technology Ventures Group with equity investments from Uncorrelated Ventures, the Partnership Fund for New York City.

Hackers Exploiting WordPress Elementor Pro Vulnerability: Millions of Sites at Risk!

01 April 2023
The flaw, described as a case of broken access control, impacts versions 3.11.6 and earlier. It was addressed by the plugin maintainers in version 3.11.7 released on March 22.

Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation

01 April 2023
Critical security flaws in Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex are being exploited by various threat actors in hacks targeting unpatched systems. This entails the abuse of CVE-2022-46169 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2021-35394 (CVSS score: 9.8) to deliver MooBot and ShellBot (aka PerlBot), Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said in a report published this week. CVE-2022-46169 relates to a critical

Hackers Exploiting WordPress Elementor Pro Vulnerability: Millions of Sites at Risk!

01 April 2023
Unknown threat actors are actively exploiting a recently patched security vulnerability in the Elementor Pro website builder plugin for WordPress. The flaw, described as a case of broken access control, impacts versions 3.11.6 and earlier. It was addressed by the plugin maintainers in version 3.11.7 released on March 22. "Improved code security enforcement in WooCommerce components," the