Elephant APT Group Exploits VLC Player and Encrypted Shellcode in Attacks on Defense Sector

Arctic Wolf Labs has uncovered a sophisticated cyber-espionage operation attributed to the Dropping Elephant advanced persistent threat (APT) group, also known as Patchwork or Quilted Tiger, focusing on Turkish defense contractors specializing in precision-guided missile systems. The campaign, which began…

NoName057(16) Hackers Target 3,700 Unique Devices Over the Last 13 Months

The pro-Russian hacktivist collective NoName057(16) has been documented executing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against over 3,700 unique hosts, predominantly targeting government and public-sector entities in European nations aligned against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Emerging in March 2022 amid the full-scale…