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Android Apps with 5.8 million Installs Caught Stealing Users' Facebook Passwords | https://thehackernews.com/2021/07/android-apps-with-58-million-installs.html | Google intervened to remove nine Android apps downloaded more than 5.8 million times from the company's Play Store after the apps were caught furtively stealing users' Facebook login credentials.
"The applications were fully functional, which was supposed to weaken the vigilance of potential victims. With that, to acce... | Malware |
Kaseya Supply-Chain Attack Hits Nearly 40 Service Providers With REvil Ransomware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/07/kaseya-revil-ransomware-attack.html | Threat actors behind the notorious REvil cybercrime operation appear to have pushed ransomware via an update for Kaseya's IT management software, hitting around 40 customers worldwide, in what's an instance of a widespread supply-chain ransomware attack.
"Beginning around mid-day (EST/US) on Friday, July 2, 2021, Kasey... | Malware |
New Mirai-Inspired Botnet Could Be Using Your KGUARD DVRs in Cyber Attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2021/07/new-mirai-inspired-botnet-could-be.html | Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday revealed details about a new Mirai-inspired botnet called "mirai_ptea" that leverages an undisclosed vulnerability in digital video recorders (DVR) provided by KGUARD to propagate and carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Chinese security firm Netlab 360 pinned th... | Malware |
IndigoZebra APT Hacking Campaign Targets the Afghan Government | https://thehackernews.com/2021/07/indigozebra-apt-hacking-campaign.html | Cybersecurity researchers are warning of ongoing attacks coordinated by a suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor targeting the Afghanistan government as part of an espionage campaign that may have had its provenance as far back as 2014.
Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Research attributed the intrusions to a hac... | Malware |
3 Steps to Strengthen Your Ransomware Defenses | https://thehackernews.com/2021/07/3-steps-to-strengthen-your-ransomware.html | The recent tsunami of ransomware has brought to life the fears of downtime and data loss cybersecurity pros have warned about, as attacks on the energy sector, food supply chain, healthcare industry, and other critical infrastructure have grabbed headlines.
For the industry experts who track the evolution of this threa... | Malware |
Hacker Wanted in the U.S. for Spreading Gozi Virus Arrested in Colombia | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/hackers-wanted-in-us-for-spreading-gozi.html | Colombian authorities on Wednesday said they have arrested a Romanian hacker who is wanted in the U.S. for distributing a virus that infected more than a million computers from 2007 to 2012.
Mihai Ionut Paunescu (aka "Virus"), the individual in question, was detained at the El Dorado airport in Bogotá, the Office of th... | Malware |
[Webinar] How Cyber Attack Groups Are Spinning a Larger Ransomware Web | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/webinar-how-cyber-attack-groups-are.html | Organizations today already have an overwhelming number of dangers and threats to look out for, from spam to phishing attempts to new infiltration and ransomware tactics. There is no chance to rest, since attack groups are constantly looking for more effective means of infiltrating and infecting systems.
Today, there a... | Malware |
Hackers Trick Microsoft Into Signing Netfilter Driver Loaded With Rootkit Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/hackers-trick-microsoft-into-signing.html | Microsoft on Friday said it's investigating an incident wherein a driver signed by the company turned out to be a malicious Windows rootkit that was observed communicating with command-and-control (C2) servers located in China.
The driver, called "Netfilter," is said to target gaming environments, specifically in the E... | Malware |
DMARC: The First Line of Defense Against Ransomware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/dmarc-first-line-of-defense-against.html | There has been a lot of buzz in the industry about ransomware lately. Almost every other day, it's making headlines. With businesses across the globe holding their breath, scared they might fall victim to the next major ransomware attack, it is now time to take action.
The FBI IC3 report of 2020 classified Ransomware a... | Malware |
Crackonosh virus mined $2 million of Monero from 222,000 hacked computers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/crackonosh-virus-mined-2-million-of.html | A previously undocumented Windows malware has infected over 222,000 systems worldwide since at least June 2018, yielding its developer no less than 9,000 Moneros ($2 million) in illegal profits.
Dubbed "Crackonosh," the malware is distributed via illegal, cracked copies of popular software, only to disable antivirus pr... | Malware |
FIN7 Supervisor Gets 7-Year Jail Term for Stealing Millions of Credit Cards | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/fin7-supervisor-gets-7-year-jail-term.html | A Ukrainian national and a mid-level supervisor of the hacking group known as FIN7 has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role as a "pen tester" and perpetuating a criminal scheme that enabled the gang to compromise millions of customers debit and credit cards.
Andrii Kolpakov, 33, was arrested in Spain on... | Malware |
Clop Gang Partners Laundered $500 Million in Ransomware Payments | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/clop-gang-members-laundered-500-million.html | The cybercrime ring that was apprehended last week in connection with Clop (aka Cl0p) ransomware attacks against dozens of companies in the last few months helped launder money totaling $500 million for several malicious actors through a plethora of illegal activities.
"The group — also known as FANCYCAT — has been run... | Malware |
Pakistan-linked hackers targeted Indian power company with ReverseRat | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/pakistan-linked-hackers-targeted-indian.html | A threat actor with suspected ties to Pakistan has been striking government and energy organizations in the South and Central Asia regions to deploy a remote access trojan on compromised Windows systems, according to new research.
"Most of the organizations that exhibited signs of compromise were in India, and a small ... | Malware |
Wormable DarkRadiation Ransomware Targets Linux and Docker Instances | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/wormable-darkradiation-ransomware.html | Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm bell over a new ransomware strain called "DarkRadiation" that's implemented entirely in Bash and targets Linux and Docker cloud containers, while banking on messaging service Telegram for command-and-control (C2) communications.
"The ransomware is written in Bash script ... | Malware |
5 Critical Steps to Recover From a Ransomware Attack | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/5-critical-steps-to-recovering-from.html | Hackers are increasingly using ransomware as an effective tool to disrupt businesses and fund malicious activities.
A recent analysis by cybersecurity company Group-IB revealed ransomware attacks doubled in 2020, while Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that a ransomware attack will occur every 11 seconds in 2021.
Busines... | Malware |
DroidMorph Shows Popular Android Antivirus Fail to Detect Cloned Malicious Apps | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/droidmorph-shows-popular-android.html | A new research published by a group of academics has found that anti-virus programs for Android continue to remain vulnerable against different permutations of malware, in what could pose a serious risk as malicious actors evolve their toolsets to better evade analysis.
"Malware writers use stealthy mutations (morphing... | Malware |
North Korea Exploited VPN Flaw to Hack South's Nuclear Research Institute | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/north-korea-exploited-vpn-flaw-to-hack.html | South Korea's state-run Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) on Friday disclosed that its internal network was infiltrated by suspected attackers operating out of its northern counterpart.
The intrusion is said to have taken place on May 14 through a vulnerability in an unnamed virtual private network (VPN) v... | Malware |
Cyber espionage by Chinese hackers in neighbouring nations is on the rise | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/cyber-espionage-by-chinese-hackers-in.html | A string of cyber espionage campaigns dating all the way back to 2014 and likely focused on gathering defense information from neighbouring countries have been linked to a Chinese military-intelligence apparatus.
In a wide-ranging report published by Massachusetts-headquartered Recorded Future this week, the cybersecur... | Malware |
[eBook] 7 Signs You Might Need a New Detection and Response Tool | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/ebook-7-signs-you-might-need-new.html | It's natural to get complacent with the status quo when things seem to be working. The familiar is comfortable, and even if something better comes along, it brings with it many unknowns.
In cybersecurity, this tendency is countered by the fast pace of innovation and how quickly technology becomes obsolete, often overni... | Malware |
Update Your Chrome Browser to Patch Yet Another 0-Day Exploited in-the-Wild | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/update-your-chrome-browser-to-patch-yet.html | Google has rolled out yet another update to Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix four security vulnerabilities, including one zero-day flaw that's being exploited in the wild.
Tracked as CVE-2021-30554, the high severity flaw concerns a use after free vulnerability in WebGL (aka Web Graphics Library), a Ja... | Malware |
Molerats Hackers Return With New Attacks Targeting Middle Eastern Governments | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/molerats-hackers-return-with-new.html | A Middle Eastern advanced persistent threat (APT) group has resurfaced after a two-month hiatus to target government institutions in the Middle East and global government entities associated with geopolitics in the region in a rash of new campaigns observed earlier this month.
Sunnyvale-based enterprise security firm P... | Malware |
A New Spyware is Targeting Telegram and Psiphon VPN Users in Iran | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/a-new-spyware-is-targeting-telegram-and.html | Threat actors with suspected ties to Iran have been found to leverage instant messaging and VPN apps like Telegram and Psiphon to install a Windows remote access trojan (RAT) capable of stealing sensitive information from targets' devices since at least 2015.
Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which pieced together ... | Malware |
Researchers Uncover 'Process Ghosting' — A New Malware Evasion Technique | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/researchers-uncover-process-ghosting.html | Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new executable image tampering attack dubbed "Process Ghosting" that could be potentially abused by an attacker to circumvent protections and stealthily run malicious code on a Windows system.
"With this technique, an attacker can write a piece of malware to disk in such a way... | Malware |
Ukraine Police Arrest Cyber Criminals Behind Clop Ransomware Attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/ukraine-police-arrest-cyber-criminals.html | Ukrainian law enforcement officials on Wednesday announced the arrest of the Clop ransomware gang, adding it disrupted the infrastructure employed in attacks targeting victims worldwide since at least 2019.
As part of an international operation between the National Police of Ukraine and authorities from Interpol, Korea... | Malware |
Malware Attack on South Korean Entities Was Work of Andariel Group | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/malware-attack-on-south-korean-entities.html | A malware campaign targeting South Korean entities that came to light earlier this year has been attributed to a North Korean nation-state hacking group called Andariel, once again indicating that Lazarus attackers are following the trends and their arsenal is in constant development.
"The way Windows commands and thei... | Malware |
Ransomware Attackers Partnering With Cybercrime Groups to Hack High-Profile Targets | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/ransomware-attackers-partnering-with.html | As ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure skyrocket, new research shows that threat actors behind such disruptions are increasingly shifting from using email messages as an intrusion route to purchasing access from cybercriminal enterprises that have already infiltrated major targets.
"Ransomware operators ... | Malware |
Experts Shed Light On Distinctive Tactics Used by Hades Ransomware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/experts-shed-light-on-distinctive.html | Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed "distinctive" tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) adopted by operators of Hades ransomware that set it apart from the rest of the pack, attributing it to a financially motivated threat group called GOLD WINTER.
"In many ways, the GOLD WINTER threat group is a typica... | Malware |
NoxPlayer Supply-Chain Attack is Likely the Work of Gelsemium Hackers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/noxplayer-supply-chain-attack-is-likely.html | A new cyber espionage group named Gelsemium has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting the NoxPlayer Android emulator that was disclosed earlier this year.
The findings come from a systematic analysis of multiple campaigns undertaken by the APT crew, with evidence of the earliest attack dating back all the way ... | Malware |
Hackers Can Exploit Samsung Pre-Installed Apps to Spy On Users | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/hackers-can-exploit-samsung-pre.html | Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in Samsung's pre-installed Android apps, which, if successfully exploited, could have allowed adversaries access to personal data without users' consent and take control of the devices.
"The impact of these bugs could have allowed an attacker to access and edit the v... | Malware |
Live Cybersecurity Webinar — Deconstructing Cobalt Strike | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/live-cybersecurity-webinar.html | Organizations' cybersecurity capabilities have improved over the past decade, mostly out of necessity. As their defenses get better, so do the methods, tactics, and techniques malicious actors devise to penetrate their environments.
Instead of the standard virus or trojan, attackers today will deploy a variety of tools... | Malware |
New Cyber Espionage Group Targeting Ministries of Foreign Affairs | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/new-cyber-espionage-group-targeting.html | Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday took the wraps off a new cyber espionage group that has been behind a series of targeted attacks against diplomatic entities and telecommunication companies in Africa and the Middle East since at least 2017.
Dubbed "BackdoorDiplomacy," the campaign involves targeting weak points in... | Malware |
Emerging Ransomware Targets Dozens of Businesses Worldwide | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/emerging-ransomware-targets-dozens-of.html | An emerging ransomware strain in the threat landscape claims to have breached 30 organizations in just four months since it went operational by riding on the coattails of a notorious ransomware syndicate.
First observed in February 2021, "Prometheus" is an offshoot of another well-known ransomware variant called Thanos... | Malware |
Beef Supplier JBS Paid Hackers $11 Million Ransom After Cyberattack | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/beef-supplier-jbs-paid-hackers-11.html | Meat processing company JBS on Wednesday confirmed it paid extortionists $11 million in bitcoins to regain access to its systems following a destructive ransomware attack late last month.
"In consultation with internal IT professionals and third-party cybersecurity experts, the company made the decision to mitigate any... | Malware |
Crypto-Mining Attacks Targeting Kubernetes Clusters via Kubeflow Instances | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/crypto-mining-attacks-targeting.html | Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed a new large-scale campaign targeting Kubeflow deployments to run malicious cryptocurrency mining containers.
The campaign involved deploying TensorFlow pods on Kubernetes clusters, with the pods running legitimate TensorFlow images from the official Docker Hub account. How... | Malware |
EBook – Creating a Large Company Security Stack on a Lean Company Budget | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/ebook-creating-large-company-security.html | The speed at which malicious actors have improved their attack tactics and continue to penetrate security systems has made going bigger the major trend in cybersecurity.
Facing an evolving threat landscape, organizations have responded by building bigger security stacks, adding more tools and platforms, and making thei... | Malware |
Feds Secretly Ran a Fake Encrypted Chat App and Busted Over 800 Criminals | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/feds-secretly-ran-fake-encrypted-chat.html | In an unprecedented sting operation, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Australian Federal Police (AFP) ran an encrypted chat service called ANoM for nearly three years to intercept 27 million messages exchanged between criminal gang members globally.
Dubbed Operation Ironside (AFP), Operation Greenligh... | Malware |
U.S. Recovers $2.3 Million Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/us-recovers-23-million-ransom-paid-to.html | In a major blow, the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday said it has recovered 63.7 bitcoins (currently valued at $2.3 million) paid by Colonial Pipeline to the DarkSide ransomware extortionists on May 8, pursuant to a seizure warrant that was authorized by the Northern District of California.
The ransomware attack al... | Malware |
Researchers Discover First Known Malware Targeting Windows Containers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/researchers-discover-first-known.html | Security researchers have discovered the first known malware, dubbed "Siloscope," targeting Windows Server containers to infect Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments.
"Siloscape is heavily obfuscated malware targeting Kubernetes clusters through Windows containers," said Unit 42 researcher Daniel Prizmant. "Its mai... | Malware |
Hackers Breached Colonial Pipeline Using Compromised VPN Password | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/hackers-breached-colonial-pipeline.html | The ransomware cartel that masterminded the Colonial Pipeline attack early last month crippled the pipeline operator's network using a compromised virtual private network (VPN) account password, the latest investigation into the incident has revealed.
The development, which was reported by Bloomberg on Friday, involved... | Malware |
Latvian Woman Charged for Her Role in Creating Trickbot Banking Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/latvian-woman-charged-for-her-role-in.html | The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday charged a Latvian woman for her alleged role as a programmer in a cybercrime gang that helped develop TrickBot malware.
The woman in question, Alla Witte, aka Max, 55, who resided in Paramaribo, Suriname, was arrested in Miami, Florida on February 6. Witte has been charged... | Malware |
GitHub Updates Policy to Remove Exploit Code When Used in Active Attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/github-updates-policy-to-remove-exploit.html | Code-hosting platform GitHub Friday officially announced a series of updates to the site's policies that delve into how the company deals with malware and exploit code uploaded to its service.
"We explicitly permit dual-use security technologies and content related to research into vulnerabilities, malware, and exploit... | Malware |
ALERT: Critical RCE Bug in VMware vCenter Server Under Active Attack | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/alert-critical-rce-bug-in-vmware.html | Malicious actors are actively mass scanning the internet for vulnerable VMware vCenter servers that are unpatched against a critical remote code execution flaw, which the company addressed late last month.
The ongoing activity was detected by Bad Packets on June 3 and corroborated yesterday by security researcher Kevin... | Malware |
Google Chrome to Help Users Identify Untrusted Extensions Before Installation | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/google-chrome-to-help-users-identify.html | Google on Thursday said it's rolling out new security features to Chrome browser aimed at detecting suspicious downloads and extensions via its Enhanced Safe Browsing feature, which it launched a year ago.
To this end, the search giant said it will now offer additional protections when users attempt to install a new ex... | Malware |
Necro Python Malware Upgrades With New Exploits and Crypto Mining Capabilities | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/necro-python-malware-upgrades-with-new.html | New upgrades have been made to a Python-based "self-replicating, polymorphic bot" called Necro in what's seen as an attempt to improve its chances of infecting vulnerable systems and evading detection.
"Although the bot was originally discovered earlier this year, the latest activity shows numerous changes to the bot, ... | Malware |
Experts Uncover Yet Another Chinese Spying Campaign Aimed at Southeast Asia | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/experts-uncover-yet-another-chinese.html | An ongoing cyber-espionage operation with suspected ties to China has been found targeting a Southeast Asian government to deploy spyware on Windows systems while staying under the radar for more than three years.
"In this campaign, the attackers utilized the set of Microsoft Office exploits and loaders with anti-analy... | Malware |
Researchers Uncover Hacking Operations Targeting Government Entities in South Korea | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/researchers-uncover-hacking-operations.html | A North Korean threat actor active since 2012 has been behind a new espionage campaign targeting high-profile government officials associated with its southern counterpart to install an Android and Windows backdoor for collecting sensitive information.
Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes attributed the activity to a threat... | Malware |
US Seizes Domains Used by SolarWinds Hackers in Cyber Espionage Attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/us-seizes-domains-used-by-solarwinds.html | Days after Microsoft, Secureworks, and Volexity shed light on a new spear-phishing activity unleashed by the Russian hackers who breached SolarWinds IT management software, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) Tuesday said it intervened to take control of two command-and-control (C2) and malware distribution domains us... | Malware |
Malware Can Use This Trick to Bypass Ransomware Defense in Antivirus Solutions | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/malware-can-use-this-trick-to-bypass.html | Researchers have disclosed significant security weaknesses in popular antivirus software applications that could be abused to deactivate their protections and take control of allow-listed applications to perform nefarious operations on behalf of the malware to defeat anti-ransomware defenses.
The twin attacks, detailed... | Malware |
Researchers Warn of Facefish Backdoor Spreading Linux Rootkits | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/researchers-warn-of-facefish-backdoor.html | Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new backdoor program capable of stealing user login credentials, device information and executing arbitrary commands on Linux systems.
The malware dropper has been dubbed "Facefish" by Qihoo 360 NETLAB team owing its capabilities to deliver different rootkits at different time... | Malware |
SolarWinds Hackers Target Think Tanks With New 'NativeZone' Backdoor | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/solarwinds-hackers-target-think-tanks.html | Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that the threat actor behind the SolarWinds supply chain hack returned to the threat landscape to target government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organizations located across 24 countries, including the U.S.
Some of the entities that were singled out include th... | Malware |
Chinese Cyber Espionage Hackers Continue to Target Pulse Secure VPN Devices | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/chinese-cyber-espionage-hackers.html | Cybersecurity researchers from FireEye unmasked additional tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) adopted by Chinese threat actors who were recently found abusing Pulse Secure VPN devices to drop malicious web shells and exfiltrate sensitive information from enterprise networks.
FireEye's Mandiant threat intelligen... | Malware |
Malvertising Campaign On Google Distributed Trojanized AnyDesk Installer | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/malvertising-campaign-on-google.html | Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday publicized the disruption of a "clever" malvertising network targeting AnyDesk that delivered a weaponized installer of the remote desktop software via rogue Google ads that appeared in the search engine results pages.
The campaign, which is believed to have begun as early as Apri... | Malware |
Newly Discovered Bugs in VSCode Extensions Could Lead to Supply Chain Attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/newly-discovered-bugs-in-vscode.html | Severe security flaws uncovered in popular Visual Studio Code extensions could enable attackers to compromise local machines as well as build and deployment systems through a developer's integrated development environment (IDE).
The vulnerable extensions could be exploited to run arbitrary code on a developer's system ... | Malware |
Data Wiper Malware Disguised As Ransomware Targets Israeli Entities | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/data-wiper-malware-disguised-as.html | Researchers on Tuesday disclosed a new espionage campaign that resorts to destructive data-wiping attacks targeting Israeli entities at least since December 2020 that camouflage the malicious activity as ransomware extortions.
Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne attributed the attacks to a nation-state actor affiliated with... | Malware |
New Bluetooth Flaws Let Attackers Impersonate Legitimate Devices | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/new-bluetooth-flaws-let-attackers.html | Adversaries could exploit newly discovered security weaknesses in Bluetooth Core and Mesh Profile Specifications to masquerade as legitimate devices and carry out man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks.
"Devices supporting the Bluetooth Core and Mesh Specifications are vulnerable to impersonation attacks and AuthValue disclo... | Malware |
Researchers Link CryptoCore Attacks On Cryptocurrency Exchanges to North Korea | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/researchers-link-cryptocore-attacks-on.html | State-sponsored hackers affiliated with North Korea have been behind a slew of attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three years, new evidence has revealed.
Attributing the attack with "medium-high" likelihood to the Lazarus Group (aka APT38 or Hidden Cobra), researchers from Israeli cybersecurity firm Clea... | Malware |
FBI Warns Conti Ransomware Hit 16 U.S. Health and Emergency Services | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/fbi-warns-conti-ransomware-hit-16-us.html | The adversary behind Conti ransomware targeted no fewer than 16 healthcare and first responder networks in the U.S. within the past year, totally victimizing over 400 organizations worldwide, 290 of which are situated in the country.
That's according to a new flash alert issued by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigati... | Malware |
Air India Hack Exposes Credit Card and Passport Info of 4.5 Million Passengers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/indias-flag-carrier-airline-air-india.html | India's flag carrier airline, Air India, has disclosed a data breach affecting 4.5 million of its customers over a period stretching nearly 10 years after its Passenger Service System (PSS) provider SITA fell victim to a cyber attack earlier this year.
The breach involves personal data registered between Aug. 26, 2011 ... | Malware |
Insurance Firm CNA Financial Reportedly Paid Hackers $40 Million in Ransom | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/insurance-firm-cna-financial-reportedly.html | U.S. insurance giant CNA Financial reportedly paid $40 million to a ransomware gang to recover access to its systems following an attack in March, making it one of the most expensive ransoms paid to date.
The development was first reported by Bloomberg, citing "people with knowledge of the attack." The adversary that s... | Malware |
Microsoft Warns of Data Stealing Malware That Pretends to Be Ransomware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/microsoft-warns-of-data-stealing.html | Microsoft on Thursday warned of a "massive email campaign" that's pushing a Java-based STRRAT malware to steal confidential data from infected systems while disguising itself as a ransomware infection.
"This RAT is infamous for its ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension .crimson to files without ... | Malware |
Watering Hole Attack Was Used to Target Florida Water Utilities | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/watering-hole-attack-was-used-to-target.html | An investigation undertaken in the aftermath of the Oldsmar water plant hack earlier this year has revealed that an infrastructure contractor in the U.S. state of Florida hosted malicious code on its website in what's known as a watering hole attack.
"This malicious code seemingly targeted water utilities, particularly... | Malware |
Android Issues Patches for 4 New Zero-Day Bugs Exploited in the Wild | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/android-issues-patches-for-4-new-zero.html | Google on Wednesday updated its May 2021 Android Security Bulletin to disclose that four of the security vulnerabilities that were patched earlier this month by Arm and Qualcomm may have been exploited in the wild as zero-days.
"There are indications that CVE-2021-1905, CVE-2021-1906, CVE-2021-28663 and CVE-2021-28664 ... | Malware |
DarkSide Ransomware Gang Extorted $90 Million from Several Victims in 9 Months | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/darkside-ransomware-gang-extorted-90.html | DarkSide, the hacker group behind the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack earlier this month, received $90 million in bitcoin payments following a nine-month ransomware spree, making it one of the most profitable cybercrime groups.
"In total, just over $90 million in bitcoin ransom payments were made to DarkSide, origi... | Malware |
How Apple Gave Chinese Government Access to iCloud Data and Censored Apps | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/how-apple-gave-chinese-government.html | In July 2018, when Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD) agreed to a deal with state-owned telco China Telecom to move iCloud data belonging to Apple's China-based users to the latter's servers, the shift raised concerns that it could make user data vulnerable to state surveillance.
Now, according to a deep-dive report from Th... | Malware |
Apple's Find My Network Can be Abused to Exfiltrate Data From Nearby Devices | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/apples-find-my-network-can-be-abused-to.html | Latest research has demonstrated a new exploit that enables arbitrary data to be uploaded from devices that are not connected to the Internet by simply sending "Find My" Bluetooth broadcasts to nearby Apple devices.
"It's possible to upload arbitrary data from non-internet-connected devices by sending Find My [Bluetoot... | Malware |
Experts Warn About Ongoing AutoHotkey-Based Malware Attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/experts-warn-about-ongoing-autohotkey.html | Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing malware campaign that heavily relies on AutoHotkey (AHK) scripting language to deliver multiple remote access trojans (RAT) such as Revenge RAT, LimeRAT, AsyncRAT, Houdini, and Vjw0rm on target Windows systems.
At least four different versions of the campaign have bee... | Malware |
Hackers Using Microsoft Build Engine to Deliver Malware Filelessly | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/hackers-using-microsoft-build-engine-to.html | Threat actors are abusing Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) to filelessly deliver remote access trojans and password-stealing malware on targeted Windows systems.
The actively ongoing campaign is said to have emerged last month, researchers from cybersecurity firm Anomali said on Thursday, adding the malicious build fil... | Malware |
Colonial Pipeline Paid Nearly $5 Million in Ransom to Cybercriminals | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/colonial-pipeline-paid-nearly-5-million.html | Colonial Pipeline on Thursday restored operations to its entire pipeline system nearly a week following a ransomware infection targeting its IT systems, forcing it to reportedly shell out nearly $5 million to regain control of its computer networks.
"Following this restart, it will take several days for the product del... | Malware |
Ransomware Gang Leaks Metropolitan Police Data After Failed Negotiations | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/ransomware-gang-leaks-metropolitan.html | The cybercrime syndicate behind Babuk ransomware has leaked more personal files belonging to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) after negotiations with the DC Police broke down, warning that they intend to publish all data if their ransom demands are not met.
"The negotiations reached a dead end, the amount we we... | Malware |
Alert: Hackers Exploit Adobe Reader 0-Day Vulnerability in the Wild | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/alert-hackers-exploit-adobe-reader-0.html | Adobe has released Patch Tuesday updates for the month of May with fixes for multiple vulnerabilities spanning 12 different products, including a zero-day flaw affecting Adobe Reader that's actively exploited in the wild.
The list of updated applications includes Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustra... | Malware |
Experts warn of a new Android banking trojan stealing users' credentials | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/experts-warn-of-new-android-banking.html | Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed a new Android trojan that hijacks users' credentials and SMS messages to facilitate fraudulent activities against banks in Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
Called "TeaBot" (or Anatsa), the malware is said to be in its early stages of development, with ma... | Malware |
U.S. Declares Emergency in 17 States Over Fuel Pipeline Cyber Attack | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/us-declares-emergency-in-17-states-over.html | The ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline's networks has prompted the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to issue a regional emergency declaration in 17 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.).
The declaration provides a temporary exemption to Parts 390 through 399 of the Federal Motor Ca... | Malware |
Ransomware Cyber Attack Forced the Largest U.S. Fuel Pipeline to Shut Down | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/ransomware-cyber-attack-forced-largest.html | Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45% of the fuel consumed on the U.S. East Coast, on Saturday said it halted operations due to a ransomware attack, once again demonstrating how critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber attacks.
"On May 7, the Colonial Pipeline Company learned it was the victim of a cybersecurity a... | Malware |
Top 12 Security Flaws Russian Spy Hackers Are Exploiting in the Wild | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/top-11-security-flaws-russian-spy.html | Cyber operatives affiliated with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) have switched up their tactics in response to previous public disclosures of their attack methods, according to a new advisory jointly published by intelligence agencies from the U.K. and U.S. Friday.
"SVR cyber operators appear to have rea... | Malware |
New Stealthy Rootkit Infiltrated Networks of High-Profile Organizations | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/new-stealthy-rootkit-infiltrated.html | An unknown threat actor with the capabilities to evolve and tailor its toolset to target environments infiltrated high-profile organizations in Asia and Africa with an evasive Windows rootkit since at least 2018.
Called 'Moriya,' the malware is a "passive backdoor which allows attackers to inspect all incoming traffic ... | Malware |
BIOS PrivEsc Bugs Affect Hundreds of Millions of Dell PCs Worldwide | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/bios-privesc-bug-affects-hundreds-of.html | PC maker Dell has issued an update to fix multiple critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities that went undetected since 2009, potentially allowing attackers to gain kernel-mode privileges and cause a denial-of-service condition.
The issues, reported to Dell by researchers from SentinelOne on Dec. 1, 2020, reside in... | Malware |
New Pingback Malware Using ICMP Tunneling to Evade C&C Detection | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/new-pingback-malware-using-icmp.html | Researchers on Tuesday disclosed a novel malware that uses a variety of tricks to stay under the radar and evade detection, while stealthily capable of executing arbitrary commands on infected systems.
Called 'Pingback,' the Windows malware leverages Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) tunneling for covert bot com... | Malware |
A Rust-based Buer Malware Variant Has Been Spotted in the Wild | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/a-new-buer-malware-variant-has-been.html | Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed a new malspam campaign distributing a fresh variant of a malware loader called "Buer" written in Rust, illustrating how adversaries are constantly honing their malware toolsets to evade analysis.
Dubbed "RustyBuer," the malware is propagated via emails masquerading as shipp... | Malware |
Researchers Uncover Iranian State-Sponsored Ransomware Operation | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/researchers-uncover-iranian-state.html | Iran has been linked to yet another state-sponsored ransomware operation through a contracting company based in the country, according to new analysis.
"Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was operating a state-sponsored ransomware campaign through an Iranian contracting company called 'Emen Net Pasargard' ... | Malware |
New Chinese Malware Targeted Russia's Largest Nuclear Submarine Designer | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/new-chinese-malware-targeted-russias.html | A threat actor believed to be working on behalf of Chinese state-sponsored interests was recently observed targeting a Russia-based defense contractor involved in designing nuclear submarines for the naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces.
The phishing attack, which singled out a general director working at the Rubin De... | Malware |
Hackers Exploit SonicWall Zero-Day Bug in FiveHands Ransomware Attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/hackers-exploit-sonicwall-zero-day-bug.html | An "aggressive" financially motivated threat group tapped into a zero-day flaw in SonicWall VPN appliances prior to it being patched by the company to deploy a new strain of ransomware called FIVEHANDS.
The group, tracked by cybersecurity firm Mandiant as UNC2447, took advantage of an "improper SQL command neutralizati... | Malware |
Passwordstate Warns of Ongoing Phishing Attacks Following Data Breach | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/passwordstate-warns-of-ongoing-phishing.html | Click Studios, the Australian software firm which confirmed a supply chain attack affecting its Passwordstate password management application, has warned customers of an ongoing phishing attack by an unknown threat actor.
"We have been advised a bad actor has commenced a phishing attack with a small number of customers... | Malware |
LuckyMouse Hackers Target Banks, Companies and Governments in 2020 | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/luckymouse-hackers-target-banks.html | An adversary known for its watering hole attacks against government entities has been linked to a slew of newly detected intrusions targeting various organizations in Central Asia and the Middle East.
The malicious activity, collectively named "EmissarySoldier," has been attributed to a threat actor called LuckyMouse, ... | Malware |
Chinese Hackers Attacking Military Organizations With New Backdoor | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/chinese-hackers-attacking-military.html | Bad actors with suspected ties to China have been behind a wide-ranging cyberespionage campaign targeting military organizations in Southeast Asia for nearly two years, according to new research.
Attributing the attacks to a threat actor dubbed "Naikon APT," cybersecurity firm Bitdefender laid out the ever-changing tac... | Malware |
Researchers Uncover Stealthy Linux Malware That Went Undetected for 3 Years | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/researchers-uncover-stealthy-linux.html | A previously undocumented Linux malware with backdoor capabilities has managed to stay under the radar for about three years, allowing the threat actor behind the operation to harvest and exfiltrate sensitive information from infected systems.
Dubbed "RotaJakiro" by researchers from Qihoo 360 NETLAB, the backdoor targe... | Malware |
Cybercriminals Widely Abusing Excel 4.0 Macro to Distribute Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/cybercriminals-widely-abusing-excel-40.html | Threat actors are increasingly adopting Excel 4.0 documents as an initial stage vector to distribute malware such as ZLoader and Quakbot, according to new research.
The findings come from an analysis of 160,000 Excel 4.0 documents between November 2020 and March 2021, out of which more than 90% were classified as malic... | Malware |
Attention! FluBot Android Banking Malware Spreads Quickly Across Europe | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/attention-flubot-android-banking.html | Attention, Android users! A banking malware capable of stealing sensitive information is "spreading rapidly" across Europe, with the U.S. likely to be the next target.
According to a new analysis by Proofpoint, the threat actors behind FluBot (aka Cabassous) have branched out beyond Spain to target the U.K., Germany, H... | Malware |
Hackers Threaten to Leak D.C. Police Informants' Info If Ransom Is Not Paid | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/hackers-threaten-to-leak-dc-police.html | The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of the District of Columbia has become the latest high-profile government agency to fall victim to a ransomware attack.
The Babuk Locker gang claimed in a post on the dark web that they had compromised the DC Police's networks and stolen 250 GB of unencrypted files. Screenshots ... | Malware |
Hackers Exploit 0-Day Gatekeeper Flaw to Attack macOS Computers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/hackers-exploit-0-day-gatekeeper-flaw.html | Security is only as strong as the weakest link. As further proof of this, Apple released an update to macOS operating systems to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability that could circumvent all security protections, thus permitting unapproved software to run on Macs.
The macOS flaw, identified as CVE-2021... | Malware |
Emotet Malware Destroys Itself From All Infected Computers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/emotet-malware-destroys-itself-today.html | Emotet, the notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, was automatically wiped from infected computers en masse following a European law enforcement operation.
The development comes three months after a coordinated disruption of Emotet as part of "Operation... | Malware |
Passwordstate Password Manager Update Hijacked to Install Backdoor on Thousands of PCs | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/passwordstate-password-manager-update.html | Click Studios, the Australian software company behind the Passwordstate password management application, has notified customers to reset their passwords following a supply chain attack.
The Adelaide-based firm said a bad actor used sophisticated techniques to compromise the software's update mechanism and used it to dr... | Malware |
New QNAP NAS Flaws Exploited In Recent Ransomware Attacks - Patch It! | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/new-qnap-nas-flaws-exploited-in-recent.html | A new ransomware strain called "Qlocker" is targeting QNAP network attached storage (NAS) devices as part of an ongoing campaign and encrypting files in password-protected 7zip archives.
First reports of the infections emerged on April 20, with the adversaries behind the operations demanding a bitcoin payment (0.01 bit... | Malware |
Prometei Botnet Exploiting Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/prometei-botnet-exploiting-unpatched.html | Attackers are exploiting the ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange Server flaws to co-opt vulnerable machines to a cryptocurrency botnet named Prometei, according to new research.
"Prometei exploits the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities associated with the HAFNIUM attacks to penetrate the network for malwar... | Malware |
Hackers Exploit VPN to Deploy SUPERNOVA malware on SolarWinds Orion | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/hackers-exploit-vpn-flaw-to-deploy.html | The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has disclosed details of a new advanced persistent threat (APT) that's leveraging the Supernova backdoor to compromise SolarWinds Orion installations after gaining access to the network through a connection to a Pulse Secure VPN device.
"The threat actor ... | Malware |
Cybercriminals Using Telegram Messenger to Control ToxicEye Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/cybercriminals-using-telegram-messenger.html | Adversaries are increasingly abusing Telegram as a "command-and-control" system to distribute malware into organizations that could then be used to capture sensitive information from targeted systems.
"Even when Telegram is not installed or being used, the system allows hackers to send malicious commands and operations... | Malware |
Over 750,000 Users Downloaded New Billing Fraud Apps From Google Play Store | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/over-750000-users-download-new-billing.html | Researchers have uncovered a new set of fraudulent Android apps in the Google Play store that were found to hijack SMS message notifications for carrying out billing fraud.
The apps in question primarily targeted users in Southwest Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, attracting a total of 700,000 downloads before they were... | Malware |
120 Compromised Ad Servers Target Millions of Internet Users | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/120-compromised-ad-servers-target.html | An ongoing malvertising campaign tracked as "Tag Barnakle" has been behind the breach of more than 120 ad servers over the past year to sneakily inject code in an attempt to serve malicious advertisements that redirect users to rogue websites, thus exposing victims to scamware or malware.
Unlike other operators who set... | Malware |
Lazarus APT Hackers are now using BMP images to hide RAT malware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/lazarus-apt-hackers-are-now-using-bmp.html | A spear-phishing attack operated by a North Korean threat actor targeting its southern counterpart has been found to conceal its malicious code within a bitmap (.BMP) image file to drop a remote access trojan (RAT) capable of stealing sensitive information.
Attributing the attack to the Lazarus Group based on similarit... | Malware |
Malware That Spreads Via Xcode Projects Now Targeting Apple's M1-based Macs | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/malware-spreads-via-xcode-projects-now.html | A Mac malware campaign targeting Xcode developers has been retooled to add support for Apple's new M1 chips and expand its features to steal confidential information from cryptocurrency apps.
XCSSET came into the spotlight in August 2020 after it was found to spread via modified Xcode IDE projects, which, upon the buil... | Malware |
SysAdmin of Billion-Dollar Hacking Group Gets 10-Year Sentence | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/sysadmin-of-billion-dollar-hacking.html | A high-level manager and systems administrator associated with the FIN7 threat actor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.
Fedir Hladyr, a 35-year-old Ukrainian national, is said to have played a crucial role in a criminal scheme that compromised tens of millions of ... | Malware |
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