Russian threat actors have been possibly linked to what’s been described as the “largest cyber attack against Danish critical infrastructure,” in which 22 companies associated with the operation of the country’s energy sector were targeted in May 2023. “22 simultaneous,…
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U.S. Takes Down IPStorm Botnet, Russian-Moldovan Mastermind Pleads Guilty
The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the takedown of the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure, as the Russian and Moldovan national behind the operation pleaded guilty. “The botnet infrastructure had infected Windows systems then further expanded to infect…
New PoC Exploit for Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Could Let Attackers Fly Under the Radar
Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new technique that exploits a critical security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to achieve arbitrary code execution in memory. Tracked as CVE-2023-46604 (CVSS score: 10.0), the vulnerability is a remote code execution bug that could permit a threat…
Three Ways Varonis Helps You Fight Insider Threats
What do basketball teams, government agencies, and car manufacturers have in common? Each one has been breached, having confidential, proprietary, or private information stolen and exposed by insiders. In each case, the motivations and methods varied, but the risk remained…
Reptar: New Intel CPU Vulnerability Impacts Multi-Tenant Virtualized Environments
Intel has released fixes to close out a high-severity flaw codenamed Reptar that impacts its desktop, mobile, and server CPUs. Tracked as CVE-2023-23583 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has the potential to “allow escalation of privilege and/or information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.”…
Alert: Microsoft Releases Patch Updates for 5 New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Microsoft has released fixes to address 63 security bugs in its software for the month of November 2023, including three vulnerabilities that have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 63 flaws, three are rated Critical, 56 are rated Important,…
Urgent: VMware Warns of Unpatched Critical Cloud Director Vulnerability
VMware is warning of a critical and unpatched security flaw in Cloud Director that could be exploited by a malicious actor to get around authentication protections. Tracked as CVE-2023-34060 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability impacts instances that have been upgraded to version…
CacheWarp Attack: New Vulnerability in AMD SEV Exposes Encrypted VMs
A group of academics has disclosed a new “software fault attack” on AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology that could be potentially exploited by threat actors to infiltrate encrypted virtual machines (VMs) and even perform privilege escalation. The attack has…
Alert: OracleIV DDoS Botnet Targets Public Docker Engine APIs to Hijack Containers
Publicly-accessible Docker Engine API instances are being targeted by threat actors as part of a campaign designed to co-opt the machines into a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet dubbed OracleIV. “Attackers are exploiting this misconfiguration to deliver a malicious Docker container, built…
The Importance of Continuous Security Monitoring for a Robust Cybersecurity Strategy
In 2023, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million. Beyond the immediate financial loss, there are long-term consequences like diminished customer trust, weakened brand value, and derailed business operations. In a world where the frequency and cost…
CI/CD Risks: Protecting Your Software Development Pipelines
Have you heard about Dependabot? If not, just ask any developer around you, and they’ll likely rave about how it has revolutionized the tedious task of checking and updating outdated dependencies in software projects. Dependabot not only takes care of…
New Campaign Targets Middle East Governments with IronWind Malware
Government entities in the Middle East are the target of new phishing campaigns that are designed to deliver a new initial access downloader dubbed IronWind. The activity, detected between July and October 2023, has been attributed by Proofpoint to a threat actor…
Vietnamese Hackers Using New Delphi-Powered Malware to Target Indian Marketers
The Vietnamese threat actors behind the Ducktail stealer malware have been linked to a new campaign that ran between March and early October 2023, targeting marketing professionals in India with an aim to hijack Facebook business accounts. “An important feature…
CISA Sets a Deadline – Patch Juniper Junos OS Flaws Before November 17
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given a November 17, 2023, deadline for federal agencies and organizations to apply mitigations to secure against a number of security flaws in Juniper Junos OS that came to light in…
New Ransomware Group Emerges with Hive’s Source Code and Infrastructure
The threat actors behind a new ransomware group called Hunters International have acquired the source code and infrastructure from the now-dismantled Hive operation to kick-start its own efforts in the threat landscape. “It appears that the leadership of the Hive group made…
Top 5 Marketing Tech SaaS Security Challenges
Effective marketing operations today are driven by the use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Marketing apps such as Salesforce, Hubspot, Outreach, Asana, Monday, and Box empower marketing teams, agencies, freelancers, and subject matter experts to collaborate seamlessly on campaigns and marketing…
Major Phishing-as-a-Service Syndicate ‘BulletProofLink’ Dismantled by Malaysian Authorities
Malaysian law enforcement authorities have announced the takedown of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation called BulletProofLink. The Royal Malaysian Police said the effort, which was carried out with assistance from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on…
Chinese Hackers Launch Covert Espionage Attacks on 24 Cambodian Organizations
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is malicious cyber activity orchestrated by two prominent Chinese nation-state hacking groups targeting 24 Cambodian government organizations. “This activity is believed to be part of a long-term espionage campaign,” Palo Alto Networks Unit…
New BiBi-Windows Wiper Targets Windows Systems in Pro-Hamas Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have warned about a Windows version of a wiper malware that was previously observed targeting Linux systems in cyber attacks aimed at Israel. Dubbed BiBi-Windows Wiper by BlackBerry, the wiper is the Windows counterpart of BiBi-Linux Wiper, which has been put…
Microsoft Warns of Fake Skills Assessment Portals Targeting IT Job Seekers
A sub-cluster within the infamous Lazarus Group has established new infrastructure that impersonates skills assessment portals as part of its social engineering campaigns. Microsoft attributed the activity to a threat actor it calls Sapphire Sleet, describing it as a “shift in…