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Silver Fox APT Targets Taiwan with Complex Gh0stCringe and HoldingHands RAT Malware
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new phishing campaign that's targeting users in Taiwan with malware families such as HoldingHands RAT and Gh0stCring…
Silver Fox APT Uses Winos 4.0 Malware in Cyber Attacks Against Taiwanese Organizations
A new campaign is targeting companies in Taiwan with malware known as Winos 4.0 as part of phishing emails masquerading as the country's National Taxation Bure…
Coyote Malware Expands Reach: Now Targets 1,030 Sites and 73 Financial Institutions
Brazilian Windows users are the target of a campaign that delivers a banking malware known as Coyote."Once deployed, the Coyote Banking Trojan can carry out va…
Navigating The Rising Threat of Zero-Day Rootkits in Linux Environments
Since Linux has become such an indispensable backbone of servers, embedded systems, and IoT devices across industries, its attractiveness as a target of sophis…
SmokeLoader Malware Resurfaces, Targeting Manufacturing and IT in Taiwan
Taiwanese entities in manufacturing, healthcare, and information technology sectors have become the target of a new campaign distributing the SmokeLoader malwa…
Cybercriminals Use Excel Exploit to Spread Fileless Remcos RAT Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign that spreads a new fileless variant of known commercial malware called Remcos RAT.Remcos RAT …
New Rust-based Fickle Malware Uses PowerShell for UAC Bypass and Data Exfiltration
A new Rust-based information stealer malware called Fickle Stealer has been observed being delivered via multiple attack chains with the goal of harvesting sen…
Hackers Use MS Excel Macro to Launch Multi-Stage Malware Attack in Ukraine
A new sophisticated cyber attack has been observed targeting endpoints geolocated to Ukraine with an aim to deploy Cobalt Strike and seize control of the compr…
Attackers Using Obfuscation Tools to Deliver Multi-Stage Malware via Invoice Phishing
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an intricate multi-stage attack that leverages invoice-themed phishing decoys to deliver a wide range of malware such…
From PDFs to Payload: Bogus Adobe Acrobat Reader Installers Distribute Byakugan Malware
Bogus installers for Adobe Acrobat Reader are being used to distribute a new multi-functional malware dubbed Byakugan.The starting point of the attack is a PDF…
Albabat, Kasseika, Kuiper: New Ransomware Gangs Rise with Rust and Golang
Cybersecurity researchers have detected in the wild yet another variant of the Phobos ransomware family known as Faust.Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, which detailed…
New MrAnon Stealer Malware Targeting German Users via Booking-Themed Scam
A phishing campaign has been observed delivering an information stealer malware called MrAnon Stealer to unsuspecting victims via seemingly benign booking-them…
Over 3 Dozen Data-Stealing Malicious npm Packages Found Targeting Developers
Nearly three dozen counterfeit packages have been discovered in the npm package repository that are designed to exfiltrate sensitive data from developer system…
New Attack Alert: Freeze[.]rs Injector Weaponized for XWorm Malware Attacks
Malicious actors are using a legitimate Rust-based injector calledFreeze[.]rsto deploy a commodity malware called XWorm in victim environments.The novel attack…
Major Cybersecurity Agencies Collaborate to Unveil 2022's Most Exploited Vulnerabilities
A four-year-old critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiOS SSL has emerged as one of the most routinely and frequently exploited vulnerabilities in 2022…
Cybercriminals Exploit Microsoft Word Vulnerabilities to Deploy LokiBot Malware
Microsoft Word documents exploiting known remote code execution flaws are being used as phishing lures to drop malware calledLokiBoton compromised systems."Lok…
Beware of Big Head Ransomware: Spreading Through Fake Windows Updates
A developing piece of ransomware calledBig Headis being distributed as part of a malvertising campaign that takes the form of bogus Microsoft Windows updates a…
Fluhorse: Flutter-Based Android Malware Targets Credit Cards and 2FA Codes
Cybersecurity researchers have shared the inner workings of an Android malware family calledFluhorse.The malware "represents a significant shift as it incorpor…
Newly Uncovered ThirdEye Windows-Based Malware Steals Sensitive Data
A previously undocumented Windows-based information stealer calledThirdEyehas been discovered in the wild with capabilities to harvest sensitive data from infe…
New Condi Malware Hijacking TP-Link Wi-Fi Routers for DDoS Botnet Attacks
A new malware calledCondihas been observed exploiting a security vulnerability in TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) Wi-Fi routers to rope the devices into a distrib…
New PowerExchange Backdoor Used in Iranian Cyber Attack on UAE Government
An unnamed government entity associated with the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) was targeted by a likely Iranian threat actor to breach the victim's Microsoft E…
New WinTapix.sys Malware Engages in Multi-Stage Attack Across Middle East
An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging a malicious Windows kernel driver in attacks likely targeting the Middle East since at least May 2020.Fort…
Hackers Exploiting 5-year-old Unpatched Vulnerability in TBK DVR Devices
Threat actors are actively exploiting an unpatched five-year-old flaw impacting TBK digital video recording (DVR) devices, according to an advisory issued by F…
Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation
Critical security flaws in Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex are being exploited by various threat actors in hacks targeting unpatched systems.This entails…