The impact of Operation Cronos continues to hinder the LockBit ransomware group’s operations and the gang begun posting fake victim claims to its leak site. Almost 80% of victim entries that appear on the group’s new data leak site post-Operation Cronos are illegitimate claims, according to a new report by Trend Micro, a Japanese cybersecurity
A suspected Vietnamese-origin threat actor has been observed targeting victims in several Asian and Southeast Asian countries with malware designed to harvest valuable data since at least May 2023. Cisco Talos is tracking the cluster under the name CoralRaider, describing it as financially motivated. Targets of the campaign include India, China, South Korea, Bangladesh, Pakistan,
Microsoft has been blamed for “cascade of security failures” that enabled Chinese threat actors to access US government officials’ emails in the Summer of 2023, an independent report has concluded. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the Cyber Safety Review Board’s (CSRB) report into the incident on April 2, 2024, which found that
Apr 03, 2024NewsroomMobile Security / Zero Day Google has disclosed that two Android security flaws impacting its Pixel smartphones have been exploited in the wild by forensic companies. The high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities are as follows – CVE-2024-29745 – An information disclosure flaw in the bootloader component CVE-2024-29748 – A privilege escalation flaw in the firmware
AT&T has acknowledged the authenticity of a dataset containing the details of 73 million current and former customers after a hacker advertised it on a dark web marketplace around March 17. 🚨BREAKING🚨Allegedly, a threat actor has exposed data from AT&T @ATT. They claim the data shows SSN, DOB, Full Names, Phone, Addresses, Emails, and other
Apr 02, 2024NewsroomFirmware Security / Vulnerability The malicious code inserted into the open-source library XZ Utils, a widely used package present in major Linux distributions, is also capable of facilitating remote code execution, a new analysis has revealed. The audacious supply chain compromise, tracked as CVE-2024-3094 (CVSS score: 10.0), came to light last week when
Nearly half (48%) of the UK’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have lost access to data since 2019, potentially costing them billions, according to a new study from Beaming. The business ISP polled 504 UK-based business leaders about their data backup and cybersecurity strategies, as well as any incidents of data loss they experienced between
Apr 01, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Financial Fraud The Indian government said it has rescued and repatriated about 250 citizens in Cambodia who were held captive and coerced into running cyber scams. The Indian nationals “were lured with employment opportunities to that country but were forced to undertake illegal cyber work,” the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
Reported data breach incidents rose by 34.5% in 2023, with over 17 billion personal records compromised throughout the year, according to Flashpoint’s 2024 Global Threat Intelligence Report. The firm recorded 6077 publicly reported data breaches last year, which included sensitive information such as names, social security numbers and financial data. Over 70% of these incidents
Mar 30, 2024NewsroomLinux / Supply Chain Attack RedHat on Friday released an “urgent security alert” warning that two versions of a popular data compression library called XZ Utils (previously LZMA Utils) have been backdoored with malicious code designed to allow unauthorized remote access. The software supply chain compromise, tracked as CVE-2024-3094, has a CVSS score
It’s now official: the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hand over some aspects of the management of the world’s most widely used software vulnerability repository to an industry consortium. NIST, an agency within the US Department of Commerce, launched the US National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in 2005 and has operated it
Video Much has been written about the risks that poorly-secured RDP connections entail, but many organizations continue to leave themselves at risk and get hit by data breaches as a result 29 Mar 2024 Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) turned out to be a lifeline for organizations around the world during the mass shift to remote
Mar 30, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cryptocurrency Malicious ads and bogus websites are acting as a conduit to deliver two different stealer malware, including Atomic Stealer, targeting Apple macOS users. The ongoing infostealer attacks targeting macOS users may have adopted different methods to compromise victims’ Macs, but operate with the end goal of stealing sensitive data, Jamf
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has unveiled a new draft for updated rules on cyber reporting for critical infrastructure organizations. In an effort to update its Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure (CIRCIA) Act of 2022, CISA released the first draft of new proposed rules, which will be published in the Federal
The Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup, and the Super Bowl are just a few examples of iconic sporting events that showcase the global significance of the professional sports industry. But while professional sports stir passion and emotion among fans, cybercriminals couldn’t care less about the competitive aspects of sports or the feeling of community
Mar 29, 2024NewsroomReverse Engineering / RFID Security Security vulnerabilities discovered in Dormakaba’s Saflok electronic RFID locks used in hotels could be weaponized by threat actors to forge keycards and stealthily slip into locked rooms. The shortcomings have been collectively named Unsaflok by researchers Lennert Wouters, Ian Carroll, rqu, BusesCanFly, Sam Curry, sshell, and Will Caruana.
The US Department of the Treasury has warned of the cybersecurity risks posed by AI to the financial sector. The report, which was written at the direction of Presidential Executive Order 14110 on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, also sets out a series of recommendations for financial institutions on
Mar 28, 2024NewsroomLinux / Network Security A Linux version of a multi-platform backdoor called DinodasRAT has been detected in the wild targeting China, Taiwan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan, new findings from Kaspersky reveal. DinodasRAT, also known as XDealer, is a C++-based malware that offers the ability to harvest a wide range of sensitive data from compromised
NHS Dumfries and Galloway has confirmed that patient clinical data has been leaked online by a ransomware group following the attack on its systems earlier this month. The statement by the Scottish NHS Trust dated March 27, 2024, revealed that clinical data relating to a small number of patients has been published by a “recognized
Scams Personal loan scams prey on your financial vulnerability and might even trap you in a vicious circle of debt. Here’s how to avoid being scammed when considering a loan. Phil Muncaster 26 Mar 2024 • , 6 min. read Times have been tough financially for many of us since the pandemic. Climate shocks, food
Mar 27, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Data Breach Indian government entities and energy companies have been targeted by unknown threat actors with an aim to deliver a modified version of an open-source information stealer malware called HackBrowserData and exfiltrate sensitive information in some cases by using Slack as command-and-control (C2). “The information stealer was delivered via
Just 5% of businesses have a cyber expert on the board, despite stronger cybersecurity correlating with significantly higher financial performance, according to a new report by Diligent and Bitsight. There was a significant variation between countries regarding the proportion of organizations with a cyber expert on the board, ranging from 10% in France to just
In today’s digital age, the internet plays a major role in young people’s lives, influencing how they further grow and develop into fully-fledged adults venturing out into the real world: From educational resources to social connections, discovering the latest viral dance trends, or watching how-to videos on how to cook pasta, the online world offers
Mar 26, 2024NewsroomIndustrial Espionage / Threat Intelligence Threat hunters have identified a suspicious package in the NuGet package manager that’s likely designed to target developers working with tools made by a Chinese firm that specializes in industrial- and digital equipment manufacturing. The package in question is SqzrFramework480, which ReversingLabs said was first published on January
A new phishing kit dubbed Tycoon 2FA has raised significant concerns in the cybersecurity community. Discovered by the Sekoia Threat Detection & Research (TDR) team in October 2023 and discussed in an advisory published today, the kit is associated with the Adversary-in-The-Middle (AiTM) technique and allegedly utilized by multiple threat actors to orchestrate widespread and
Last year ESET published a blogpost about AceCryptor – one of the most popular and prevalent cryptors-as-a-service (CaaS) operating since 2016. For H1 2023 we published statistics from our telemetry, according to which trends from previous periods continued without drastic changes. However, in H2 2023 we registered a significant change in how AceCryptor is used.
Mar 25, 2024NewsroomSupply Chain Attack / Cryptocurrency Unidentified adversaries orchestrated a sophisticated attack campaign that has impacted several individual developers as well as the GitHub organization account associated with Top.gg, a Discord bot discovery site. “The threat actors used multiple TTPs in this attack, including account takeover via stolen browser cookies, contributing malicious code with
In a bipartisan effort, the US House of Representatives has approved legislation to curtail the sharing of Americans’ sensitive data with foreign entities. The bill, known as the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act (HR 7520), spearheaded by Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ), secured an overwhelming vote of 414-0. This legislative move
Video The second half of 2023 saw massive growth in AceCryptor-packed malware spreading in the wild, including courtesy of multiple spam campaigns where AceCryptor packed the Rescoms RAT 22 Mar 2024 This week, ESET researchers released an analysis showing a surge in the detections of AceCryptor, one of the most popular cryptors-as-a-service (CaaS) used to
Mar 24, 2024NewsroomArtificial Intelligence / Cyber Espionage The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky (aka Black Banshee, Emerald Sleet, or Springtail) has been observed shifting its tactics, leveraging Compiled HTML Help (CHM) files as vectors to deliver malware for harvesting sensitive data. Kimsuky, active since at least 2012, is known to target entities located
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