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13 February 2023
OilRig APT evolved its methods to bypass security protections by adding a new backdoor to its arsenal to support its long-running espionage campaign against government organizations in the Middle East.
13 February 2023
Not only do many of the security holes discovered in 2022 impact Siemens products, the German industrial giant is also responsible for self-reporting the highest number of vulnerabilities, far more than other vendors, according to a SynSaber report.
13 February 2023
Four different rogue packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) have been found to carry out a number of malicious actions, including dropping malware, deleting the netstat utility, and manipulating the SSH authorized_keys file.
13 February 2023
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected a group of cryptographic algorithms called Ascon as the lightweight cryptography standard to protect data flowing through IoT devices.
13 February 2023
Romance scams cost victims at least $1.3 billion in 2022, according to the US Federal Trade Commission's latest numbers. Almost 70,000 people reported these crimes last year, and the median reported loss was $4,400.
13 February 2023
Tracked as NewsPenguin, the adversary has been observed sending phishing emails that use the upcoming Pakistan International Maritime Expo & Conference (PIMEC-2023) as bait and which carry weaponized documents to deliver an advanced espionage tool.
13 February 2023
There have been a number of reports of attacks on industrial control systems (ICS) in the past few years. Looking a bit closer, most of the attacks seem to have spilt over from traditional IT. That's to be expected, as production systems are commonly connected to ordinary corporate networks at this point. Though our data does not indicate at this point that a lot of threat actors specifically
13 February 2023
Australia's Defence Department removed all Chinese-manufactured surveillance cameras after an audit detailed the number of Hikvision and Dahua devices installed in various government facilities.
13 February 2023
Researchers from SecurityScorecard published a list of proxy IPs used by the pro-Russia group Killnet with the intent to interfere with its operation and block its attacks.
13 February 2023
The CISA added actively exploited flaws in Fortra MFT, Intel driver, and TerraMaster NAS, respectively tracked as CVE-2023-0669, CVE-2015-2291, and CVE-2022-24990, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.
13 February 2023
The City of Oakland disclosed a ransomware attack, the security breach began on Wednesday night. In an abundance of caution, the City of Oakland has taken impacted systems offline, while they work to secure the impacted infrastructure.
13 February 2023
The cyberattack was also confirmed by Germany-based Iranian journalist Bamdad Esmaili on his Twitter account. On the other hand, the Edalat-e Ali group used its Telegram channel to announce the hack.
13 February 2023
The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Tonto Team carried out an unsuccessful attack on cybersecurity company Group-IB in June 2022.
The Singapore-headquartered firm said that it detected and blocked malicious phishing emails originating from the group targeting its employees. It's also the second attack aimed at Group-IB, the first of which took place in March 2021.
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13 February 2023
A previously unknown threat actor has been targeting companies in the U.S. and Germany with bespoke malware designed to steal confidential information.
Enterprise security company Proofpoint, which is tracking the activity cluster under the name Screentime, said the group, dubbed TA866, is likely financially motivated.
"TA866 is an organized actor able to perform well thought-out attacks at
11 February 2023
Researchers from Broadcom Symantec took the wraps off of an information-stealing malware known as Graphiron. Russia-affiliated ATP group Nodaria is using it in operations against Ukraine. Written in the Go programming language, the malware enables operators to gather a variety of data from the infected systems, including screenshots, files, system information, and login passwords.
11 February 2023
Security experts at Avast Threat Labs uncovered four malicious Dota 2 game mods that cyber adversaries are using to backdoor players' systems. The game mods were named Overdog no annoying heroes (id 2776998052), Custom Hero Brawl (id 2780728794), and Overthrow RTZ Edition X10 XP (id 2780559339). These programs could be used for logging, creating coroutines, executing arbitrary code, and making HTTP GET requests.
11 February 2023
An alert from the CERT-UA revealed that threat actors conducted a phishing campaign against Ukrainian government agencies to deploy the Remcos RAT on their computers. The email contained a file reminding recipients to pay for services availed from Ukrtelecom. This latest Remcos version leverages the Dynamic Imports technique to evade detection by static analysis tools.
11 February 2023
SentinelLabs claimed to have observed the first Linux variant of Cl0p ransomware. The ELF variant of the ransomware uses the same encryption method and similar process logic as it does for Windows. Given that some Windows-only capabilities are missing from this new Linux version, it appears to still be in the early stages of development. The firm has also shared a free decryptor with law enforcement to help victims.
11 February 2023
The EFF has been tracking Dark Caracal since 2015. In 2020, Quintin and EFF’s director of cybersecurity Eva Galperin published a report about a hacking campaign focused on Lebanese targets.
11 February 2023
After the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a decryptor for affected victims to recover from ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, the threat actors have bounced back with an updated version that encrypts more data.
The emergence of the new variant was reported by a system administrator on an online forum, where another participant stated that files larger than 128MB