The financially motivated threat actor known as FIN8 has been observed using a “revamped” version of a backdoor called Sardonic to deliver the BlackCat ransomware. According to the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part
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Data associated with a subset of registered customers of VirusTotal, including their names and email addresses, were exposed after an employee inadvertently uploaded the information to the malware scanning platform.
An unidentified threat actor compromised an application used by multiple entities in Pakistan to deliver ShadowPad, a successor to the PlugX backdoor that’s commonly associated with Chinese hacking crews. Targets included a
Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in the WooCommerce Payments WordPress plugin as part of a massive targeted campaign. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-28121 (CVSS score: 9.8),
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the owner of the now-defunct BreachForums website, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his operation of the cybercrime forum as well as having child pornography images.
A little over a week after JumpCloud reset API keys of customers impacted by a security incident, the company said the intrusion was the work of a sophisticated nation-state actor. The adversary
The Russia-linked threat actor known as Gamaredon has been observed conducting data exfiltration activities within an hour of the initial compromise. “As a vector of primary compromise, for the most
Microsoft Word documents exploiting known remote code execution flaws are being used as phishing lures to drop malware called LokiBot on compromised systems. “LokiBot, also known as Loki PWS, has been a
Cyber attacks using infected USB infection drives as an initial access vector have witnessed a three-fold increase in the first half of 2023, That’s according to new findings from Mandiant,