The three zero-day flaws addressed by Apple on September 21, 2023, were leveraged as part of an iPhone exploit chain in an attempt to deliver a spyware strain called Predator targeting former Egyptian member of parliament Ahmed Eltantawy between May and September 2023. “The…
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New Variant of Banking Trojan BBTok Targets Over 40 Latin American Banks
An active malware campaign targeting Latin America is dispensing a new variant of a banking trojan called BBTok, particularly users in Brazil and Mexico. “The BBTok banker has a dedicated functionality that replicates the interfaces of more than 40 Mexican and…
How to Interpret the 2023 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation Results
Thorough, independent tests are a vital resource for analyzing provider’s capabilities to guard against increasingly sophisticated threats to their organization. And perhaps no assessment is more widely trusted than the annual MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation. This testing is critical for evaluating…
Iranian Nation-State Actor OilRig Targets Israeli Organizations
Israeli organizations were targeted as part of two different campaigns orchestrated by the Iranian nation-state actor known as OilRig in 2021 and 2022. The campaigns, dubbed Outer Space and Juicy Mix, entailed the use of two previously documented first-stage backdoors called Solar…
High-Severity Flaws Uncovered in Atlassian Products and ISC BIND Server
Atlassian and the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have disclosed several security flaws impacting their products that could be exploited to achieve denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution. The Australian software services provider said that the four high-severity flaws were fixed in new…
Apple Rushes to Patch 3 New Zero-Day Flaws: iOS, macOS, Safari, and More Vulnerable
Apple has released yet another round of security patches to address three actively exploited zero-day flaws impacting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari, taking the total tally of zero-day bugs discovered in its software this year to 16. The list…
Mysterious ‘Sandman’ Threat Actor Targets Telecom Providers Across Three Continents
A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Sandman has been attributed to a set of cyber attacks targeting telecommunic koation providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and the South Asian subcontinent. Notably, the intrusions leverage a just-in-time (JIT) compiler for the Lua…
Researchers Raise Red Flag on P2PInfect Malware with 600x Activity Surge
The peer-to-peer (P2) worm known as P2PInfect has witnessed a surge in activity since late August 2023, witnessing a 600x jump between September 12 and 19, 2023. “This increase in P2PInfect traffic has coincided with a growing number of variants seen in…
The Rise of the Malicious App
Security teams are familiar with threats emanating from third-party applications that employees add to improve their productivity. These apps are inherently designed to deliver functionality to users by connecting to a “hub” app, such as Salesforce, Google Workspace, or Microsoft…
Cyber Group ‘Gold Melody’ Selling Compromised Access to Ransomware Attackers
A financially motivated threat actor has been outed as an initial access broker (IAB) that sells access to compromised organizations for other adversaries to conduct follow-on attacks such as ransomware. SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) has dubbed the e-crime group Gold…
China Accuses U.S. of Decade-Long Cyber Espionage Campaign Against Huawei Servers
China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) has accused the U.S. of breaking into Huawei’s servers, stealing critical data, and implanting backdoors since 2009, amid mounting geopolitical tensions between the two countries. In a message posted on WeChat, the government authority said U.S.…
Beware: Fake Exploit for WinRAR Vulnerability on GitHub Infects Users with Venom RAT
A malicious actor released a fake proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a recently disclosed WinRAR vulnerability on GitHub with an aim to infect users who downloaded the code with Venom RAT malware. “The fake PoC meant to exploit this WinRAR vulnerability…
Ukrainian Hacker Suspected to be Behind “Free Download Manager” Malware Attack
The maintainers of Free Download Manager (FDM) have acknowledged a security incident dating back to 2020 that led to its website being used to distribute malicious Linux software. “It appears that a specific web page on our site was compromised…
Beware: Fake Exploit for WinRAR Vulnerability on GitHub Infects Users with VenomRAT
A malicious actor released a fake proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a recently disclosed WinRAR vulnerability on GitHub with an aim to infect users who downloaded the code with VenomRAT malware. “The fake PoC meant to exploit this WinRAR vulnerability was…
Finnish Authorities Dismantle Notorious PIILOPUOTI Dark Web Drug Marketplace
Finnish law enforcement authorities have announced the takedown of PIILOPUOTI, a dark web marketplace that specialized in illegal narcotics trade since May 2022. “The site operated as a hidden service in the encrypted TOR network,” the Finnish Customs (aka Tulli) said in…
Critical Security Flaws Exposed in Nagios XI Network Monitoring Software
Multiple security flaws have been disclosed in the Nagios XI network monitoring software that could result in privilege escalation and information disclosure. The four security vulnerabilities, tracked from CVE-2023-40931 through CVE-2023-40934, impact Nagios XI versions 5.11.1 and lower. Following responsible…
Sophisticated Phishing Campaign Targeting Chinese Users with ValleyRAT and Gh0st RAT
Chinese-language speakers have been increasingly targeted as part of multiple email phishing campaigns that aim to distribute various malware families such as Sainbox RAT, Purple Fox, and a new trojan called ValleyRAT. “Campaigns include Chinese-language lures and malware typically associated…
Fresh Wave of Malicious npm Packages Threaten Kubernetes Configs and SSH Keys
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh batch of malicious packages in the npm package registry that are designed to exfiltrate Kubernetes configurations and SSH keys from compromised machines to a remote server. Sonatype said it has discovered 14 different npm…
Do You Really Trust Your Web Application Supply Chain?
Well, you shouldn’t. It may already be hiding vulnerabilities. It’s the modular nature of modern web applications that has made them so effective. They can call on dozens of third-party web components, JS frameworks, and open-source tools to deliver all…
Signal Messenger Introduces PQXDH Quantum-Resistant Encryption
Encrypted messaging app Signal has announced an update to the Signal Protocol to add support for quantum resistance by upgrading the Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman (X3DH) specification to Post-Quantum Extended Diffie-Hellman (PQXDH). “With this upgrade, we are adding a layer of…