The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) has taken sanctions against OpenAI over data protection failures related to the ChatGPT chatbot. OpenAI must pay a €15m ($15.6m) fine and carry out a six-month public awareness campaign across Italian media. This campaign is aimed to educate the public on how ChatGPT
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The Lazarus Group, an infamous threat actor linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), has been observed leveraging a “complex infection chain” targeting at least two employees belonging to an unnamed nuclear-related organization within the span of one month in January 2024. The attacks, which culminated in the deployment of a new modular
Despite the ban on Kaspersky products in the US they continue to be actively used by US organizations, including by 19 US government entities. A Bitsight analysis found that 40% of US organizations observed to be using Kaspersky products before the prohibition came into effect on September 29, 2024, still appear to be using the
Dec 19, 2024Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Software Security Threat actors have been observed uploading malicious typosquats of legitimate npm packages such as typescript-eslint and @types/node that have racked up thousands of downloads on the package registry. The counterfeit versions, named @typescript_eslinter/eslint and types-node, are engineered to download a trojan and retrieve second-stage payloads, respectively. “While
US federal agencies and departments have been mandated to implement new cybersecurity practices for cloud services. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published Binding Operational Directive 25-01: Implementing Secure Practices for Cloud Services on December 17, which sets out actions federal agencies must take to identify and secure all production or operational cloud tenants
Dec 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new phishing campaign that has targeted European companies with an aim to harvest account credentials and take control of the victims’ Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. The campaign has been codenamed HubPhish by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 owing to the abuse of
A sophisticated phishing attack targeting a Turkish defense sector organization was recently uncovered by security researchers, shedding light on the evolving tactics of threat actor TA397, also known as “Bitter.” This campaign, observed by Proofpoint, deployed spear phishing emails containing RAR archives to deliver malware through advanced mechanisms involving NTFS Alternate Data Streams (ADS) and
Dec 17, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Credential Theft A new social engineering campaign has leveraged Microsoft Teams as a way to facilitate the deployment of a known malware called DarkGate. “An attacker used social engineering via a Microsoft Teams call to impersonate a user’s client and gain remote access to their system,” Trend Micro researchers Catherine
Internet-exposed Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) pose significant risks to the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) sector, according to a new fact sheet jointly released by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Titled Internet-Exposed HMIs Pose Cybersecurity Risks to Water and Wastewater Systems and published last week, the
Dec 16, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalvertising / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented aspect associated with ClickFix-style attacks that hinge on taking advantage of a single ad network service as part of a malvertising-driven information stealer campaign dubbed DeceptionAds. “Entirely reliant on a single ad network for propagation, this campaign showcases the
Ransomware claims reached an all-time high in November 2024, with Corvus Insurance reporting 632 victims claimed on ransomware groups’ data leak sites (DLS). More than double the monthly average of 307 victims, the November count exceeds the previous peak of 527 victims recorded in May 2024. According to a December 11 report by Corvus, these
Dec 14, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Threat Thai government officials have emerged as the target of a new campaign that leverages a technique called DLL side-loading to deliver a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed Yokai. “The target of the threat actors were Thailand officials based on the nature of the lures,” Nikhil Hegde, senior engineer for
Threat actors’ abuse of legitimate Microsoft tools rose by 51% in the first half of 2024 compared to 2023, according to Sophos’ latest Active Adversary Report. The researchers observed 187 unique Microsoft Living Off the Land Binaries (LOLbins) used by threat actors in 190 cyber incidents analyzed in H1 2024. Over a third of them
Dec 14, 2024Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Ad Fraud Germany’s Federal Office of Information Security (BSI) has announced that it has disrupted a malware operation called BADBOX that came preloaded on at least 30,000 internet-connected devices sold across the country. In a statement published earlier this week, authorities said they severed the communications between the devices and
The US Government has offered a $5m reward for information that leads to the disruption of financial mechanisms of persons engaged in a fake IT worker scheme targeting US firms that support the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The conspirators, some of whom were ordered by their superiors to earn at least $10,000 per
Dec 13, 2024The Hacker NewsLinux / Vulnerability A security flaw has been disclosed in OpenWrt‘s Attended Sysupgrade (ASU) feature that, if successfully exploited, could have been abused to distribute malicious firmware packages. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-54143, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of a maximum of 10, indicating critical severity. Flatt Security researcher
Two significant security vulnerabilities in the popular Woffice WordPress theme that could allow attackers to gain unauthorized control or access have been patched. The Woffice theme, a premium product developed by Xtendify with over 15,000 sales, provides team and project management functionality for WordPress. According to a report by Patchstack, the first vulnerability is a privilege
Dec 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers are warning that thousands of servers hosting the Prometheus monitoring and alerting toolkit are at risk of information leakage and exposure to denial-of-service (DoS) as well as remote code execution (RCE) attacks. “Prometheus servers or exporters, often lacking proper authentication, allowed attackers to easily gather sensitive
Russian state threat actor Secret Blizzard has leveraged resources and tools used by other cyber groups to support the Kremlin’s military efforts in Ukraine, according to Microsoft. These campaigns have consistently led to the download of Secret Blizzard’s custom malware on devices associated with the Ukrainian military. The analysis is the second part of research
Dec 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Endpoint Security A newly devised technique leverages a Windows accessibility framework called UI Automation (UIA) to perform a wide range of malicious activities without tipping off endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions. “To exploit this technique, a user must be convinced to run a program that uses UI Automation,” Akamai
A significant cyber operation exploiting vulnerabilities in improperly configured public websites has been linked to the Nemesis and ShinyHunters hacking groups, exposing sensitive data, including customer information, infrastructure credentials and proprietary source code. According to independent cybersecurity researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, the attackers orchestrated a large-scale internet scan targeting vulnerable endpoints within Amazon Web Services
Dec 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Analysis Users of Cleo-managed file transfer software are being urged to ensure that their instances are not exposed to the internet following reports of mass exploitation of a vulnerability affecting fully patched systems. Cybersecurity company Huntress said it discovered evidence of threat actors exploiting the issue en masse on
A federal appeals court has upheld a law that could see TikTok banned across the US unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, divests its ownership. The decision was issued by a three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday, marking a significant setback for the video-sharing platform
Dec 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Threats / Weekly Recap This week’s cyber world is like a big spy movie. Hackers are breaking into other hackers’ setups, sneaky malware is hiding in popular software, and AI-powered scams are tricking even the smartest of us. On the other side, the good guys are busting secret online markets and
Ransomware group Brain Cipher claimed to have breached Deloitte UK and threatened to publish the data it had stolen earlier this week. However, despite the claims, a Deloitte spokesperson told Infosecurity that its investigation indicates that the allegations relate to a single client’s system which sits outside of the Deloitte network. “No Deloitte systems have
Dec 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain Attack / Cryptocurrency In yet another software supply chain attack, it has come to light that two versions of a popular Python artificial intelligence (AI) library named ultralytics were compromised to deliver a cryptocurrency miner. The versions, 8.3.41 and 8.3.42, have since been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI)
A propaganda campaign conducted primarily on TikTok boosted a far-right candidate who topped the votes in the first round of Romania’s presidential election, according to Romanian authorities. Cǎlin Georgescu, a far-right candidate with pro-Kremlin views, was predicted to receive minimal support in the country’s presidential election, with only 1% of the vote in pre-election polls
Dec 07, 2024The Hacker NewsEnterprise Security / Threat Prevention Cybercriminals know that privileged accounts are the keys to your kingdom. One compromised account can lead to stolen data, disrupted operations, and massive business losses. Even top organizations struggle to secure privileged accounts. Why? Traditional Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions often fall short, leaving: Blind spots
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is looking to expanding cybersecurity requirements for US telecommunications firms following the Salt Typhoon cyber-attack which impacted at least eight US communications firms. As part of its “decisive action” the FCC has released a Notice of Rulemaking in which communications firms could be subject to an annual certification requirement
Dec 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananSpyware / Mobile Security A Russian programmer accused of donating money to Ukraine had his Android device secretly implanted with spyware by the Federal Security Service (FSB) after he was detained earlier this year. The findings come as part of a collaborative investigation by First Department and the University of Toronto’s Citizen
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