Google has taken steps to block ads for e-commerce sites that use the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and modified the JavaScript library (“polyfill.js”) to redirect users to malicious and scam sites. More than 110,000 sites…
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New Attack Technique Exploits Microsoft Management Console Files
Threat actors are exploiting a novel attack technique in the wild that leverages specially crafted management saved console (MSC) files to gain full code execution using Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and evade security defenses. Elastic Security Labs has codenamed the…
How to Cut Costs with a Browser Security Platform
Browser security is becoming increasingly popular, as organizations understand the need to protect at the point of risk – the browser. Network and endpoint solutions are limited in their ability to protect from web-borne threats like phishing websites or malicious…
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Released from U.K. Prison, Heads to Australia
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed in the U.K. and has departed the country after serving more than five years in a maximum security prison at Belmarsh for what was described by the U.S. government as the “largest compromises…
Multiple WordPress Plugins Compromised: Hackers Create Rogue Admin Accounts
Multiple WordPress plugins have been backdoored to inject malicious code that makes it possible to create rogue administrator accounts with the aim of performing arbitrary actions. “The injected malware attempts to create a new administrative user account and then sends…
4 FIN9-linked Vietnamese Hackers Indicted in $71M U.S. Cybercrime Spree
Four Vietnamese nationals with ties to the FIN9 cybercrime group have been indicted in the U.S. for their involvement in a series of computer intrusions that caused over $71 million in losses to companies. The defendants, Ta Van Tai (aka…
Google Introduces Project Naptime for AI-Powered Vulnerability Research
Google has developed a new framework called Project Naptime that it says enables a large language model (LLM) to carry out vulnerability research with an aim to improve automated discovery approaches. “The Naptime architecture is centered around the interaction between…
Critical RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Ollama AI Infrastructure Tool
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a now-patch security flaw affecting the Ollama open-source artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure platform that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2024-37032, the vulnerability has been codenamed Probllama by cloud security firm Wiz.…
Ease the Burden with AI-Driven Threat Intelligence Reporting
Learn about critical threats that can impact your organization and the bad actors behind them from Cybersixgill’s threat experts. Each story shines a light on underground activities, the threat actors involved, and why you should care, along with what you…
RedJuliett Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits 75 Taiwanese Organizations
A likely China-linked state-sponsored threat actor has been linked to a cyber espionage campaign targeting government, academic, technology, and diplomatic organizations in Taiwan between November 2023 and April 2024. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group is tracking the activity under the name…
Multiple Threat Actors Deploying Open-Source Rafel RAT to Target Android Devices
Multiple threat actors, including cyber espionage groups, are employing an open-source Android remote administration tool called Rafel RAT to meet their operational objectives by masquerading it as Instagram, WhatsApp, and various e-commerce and antivirus apps. “It provides malicious actors with…
Warning: New Adware Campaign Targets Meta Quest App Seekers
A new campaign is tricking users searching for the Meta Quest (formerly Oculus) application for Windows into downloading a new adware family called AdsExhaust. “The adware is capable of exfiltrating screenshots from infected devices and interacting with browsers using simulated…
ExCobalt Cyber Gang Targets Russian Sectors with New GoRed Backdoor
Russian organizations have been targeted by a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt using a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor known as GoRed. “ExCobalt focuses on cyber espionage and includes several members active since at least 2016 and presumably once part of the…
U.S. Treasury Sanctions 12 Kaspersky Executives Amid Software Ban
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions against a dozen individuals serving executive and senior leadership roles at Kaspersky Lab, a day after the Russian company was banned by the Commerce Department. The…
Chinese Hackers Deploy SpiceRAT and SugarGh0st in Global Espionage Campaign
A previously undocumented Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed SneakyChef has been linked to an espionage campaign primarily targeting government entities across Asia and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) with SugarGh0st malware since at least August 2023. “SneakyChef uses lures that…
Military-themed Email Scam Spreads Malware to Infect Pakistani Users
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new phishing campaign that has been identified as targeting people in Pakistan using a custom backdoor. Dubbed PHANTOM#SPIKE by Securonix, the unknown threat actors behind the activity have leveraged military-related phishing documents to…
How to Use Tines’s SOC Automation Capability Matrix
Created by John Tuckner and the team at automation and AI-powered workflow platform Tines, the SOC Automation Capability Matrix (SOC ACM) is a set of techniques designed to help security operations teams understand their automation capabilities and respond more effectively to incidents. A…
Oyster Backdoor Spreading via Trojanized Popular Software Downloads
A malvertising campaign is leveraging trojanized installers for popular software such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Teams to drop a backdoor called Oyster (aka Broomstick and CleanUpLoader). That’s according to findings from Rapid7, which identified lookalike websites hosting the malicious…
SolarWinds Serv-U Vulnerability Under Active Attack – Patch Immediately
A recently patched high-severity flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U file transfer software is being actively exploited by malicious actors in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-28995 (CVSS score: 8.6), concerns a directory transversal bug that could allow attackers to read…
U.S. Bans Kaspersky Software, Citing National Security Risks
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) on Thursday announced a “first of its kind” ban that prohibits Kaspersky Lab’s U.S. subsidiary from directly or indirectly offering its security software in the country. The blockade also…