Stealthy BLOODALCHEMY Malware Targeting Targeting ASEAN Governments

24/05/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that the malware known as BLOODALCHEMY used in attacks targeting government organizations in Southern and Southeastern Asia is in fact an updated version of Deed RAT, which is believed to

Ransomware Attacks Exploit VMware ESXi Vulnerabilities in Alarming Pattern

23/05/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi infrastructure following an established pattern regardless of the file-encrypting malware deployed. “Virtualization platforms are a core component of organizational IT infrastructure, yet they often suffer from inherent

CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Apache Flink Security Vulnerability

23/05/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting Apache Flink, the open-source, unified stream-processing and batch-processing framework, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence

New Frontiers, Old Tactics: Chinese Espionage Group Targets Africa & Caribbean Govts

23/05/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

The China-linked threat actor known as Sharp Panda has expanded their targeting to include governmental organizations in Africa and the Caribbean as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign. “The

Ivanti Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Flaws in Endpoint Manager

23/05/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Ivanti on Tuesday rolled out fixes to address multiple critical security flaws in Endpoint Manager (EPM) that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution under certain circumstances. Six of

The End of an Era: Microsoft Phases Out VBScript for JavaScript and PowerShell

23/05/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Microsoft on Wednesday outlined its plans to deprecate Visual Basic Script (VBScript) in the second half of 2024 in favor of more advanced alternatives such as JavaScript and PowerShell. “Technology

Are Your SaaS Backups as Secure as Your Production Data?

23/05/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Conversations about data security tend to diverge into three main threads: How can we protect the data we store on our on-premises or cloud infrastructure? What strategies and tools or

Inside Operation Diplomatic Specter: Chinese APT Group’s Stealthy Tactics Exposed

23/05/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Governmental entities in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are the target of a Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Diplomatic

Rockwell Advises Disconnecting Internet-Facing ICS Devices Amid Cyber Threats

22/05/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Rockwell Automation is urging its customers to disconnect all industrial control systems (ICSs) not meant to be connected to the public-facing internet to mitigate unauthorized or malicious cyber activity. The

Researchers Warn of Chinese-Aligned Hackers Targeting South China Sea Countries

22/05/2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented threat group called Unfading Sea Haze that’s believed to have been active since 2018. The intrusion singled out high-level organizations in South China