Vidar Malware Using New Tactics to Evade Detection and Anonymize Activities

16/06/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

The threat actors behind the Vidar malware have made changes to their backend infrastructure, indicating attempts to retool and conceal their online trail in response to public disclosures about their modus operandi.

Warning: GravityRAT Android Trojan Steals WhatsApp Backups and Deletes Files

16/06/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

An updated version of an Android remote access trojan dubbed GravityRAT has been found masquerading as messaging apps BingeChat and Chatico as part of a narrowly targeted campaign since June 2022. “Notable

New Research: 6% of Employees Paste Sensitive Data into GenAI tools as ChatGPT

15/06/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

The revolutionary technology of GenAI tools, such as ChatGPT, has brought significant risks to organizations’ sensitive data. But what do we really know about this risk? A new research by Browser Security

New Supply Chain Attack Exploits Abandoned S3 Buckets to Distribute Malicious Binaries

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In what’s a new kind of software supply chain attack aimed at open source projects, it has emerged that threat actors could seize control of expired Amazon S3 buckets to

New Report Reveals Shuckworm’s Long-Running Intrusions on Ukrainian Organizations

15/06/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

The Russian threat actor known as Shuckworm has continued its cyber assault spree against Ukrainian entities in a bid to steal sensitive information from compromised environments. Targets of the recent intrusions, which

Microsoft Warns of New Russian State-Sponsored Hacker Group with Destructive Intent

15/06/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

Microsoft on Wednesday took the lid off a “novel and distinct Russian threat actor,” which it said is linked to the General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and has a

LockBit Ransomware Extorts $91 Million from U.S. Companies

15/06/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

The threat actors behind the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme have extorted $91 million following hundreds of attacks against numerous U.S. organizations since 2020. That’s according to a joint bulletin published by the U.S. Cybersecurity

Chinese Hackers Exploit VMware Zero-Day to Backdoor Windows and Linux Systems

14/06/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

The Chinese state-sponsored group known as UNC3886 has been found to exploit a zero-day flaw in VMware ESXi hosts to backdoor Windows and Linux systems. The VMware Tools authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked

Severe Vulnerabilities Reported in Microsoft Azure Bastion and Container Registry

14/06/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

Two “dangerous” security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Microsoft Azure Bastion and Azure Container Registry that could have been exploited to carry out cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. “The vulnerabilities allowed

Where from, Where to — The Evolution of Network Security

14/06/2023 0 Comments 0 tags

For the better part of the 90s and early aughts, the sysadmin handbook said, “Filter your incoming traffic, not everyone is nice out there” (later coined by Gandalf as “You