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Severe Bugs Reported in EtherNet/IP Stack for Industrial Systems | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/severe-bugs-reported-in-ethernetip.html | The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued an advisory warning of multiple vulnerabilities in the OpENer EtherNet/IP stack that could expose industrial systems to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, data leaks, and remote code execution.
All OpENer commits and versions prior to Feb... | Malware |
Malware Variants: More Sophisticated, Prevalent and Evolving in 2021 | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/malware-variants-more-sophisticated.html | A malicious program intended to cause havoc with IT systems—malware—is becoming more and more sophisticated every year. The year 2021 is no exception, as recent trends indicate that several new variants of malware are making their way into the world of cybersecurity.
While smarter security solutions are popping up, mod... | Malware |
New NAME:WRECK Vulnerabilities Impact Nearly 100 Million IoT Devices | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/new-namewreck-vulnerabilities-impact.html | Security researchers have uncovered nine vulnerabilities affecting four TCP/IP stacks impacting more than 100 million consumer and enterprise devices that could be exploited by an attacker to take control of a vulnerable system.
Dubbed "NAME:WRECK" by Forescout and JSOF, the flaws are the latest in series of studies un... | Malware |
BRATA Malware Poses as Android Security Scanners on Google Play Store | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/brata-malware-poses-as-android-security.html | A new set of malicious Android apps have been caught posing as app security scanners on the official Play Store to distribute a backdoor capable of gathering sensitive information.
"These malicious apps urge users to update Chrome, WhatsApp, or a PDF reader, yet instead of updating the app in question, they take full c... | Malware |
Alert — There's A New Malware Out There Snatching Users' Passwords | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/alert-theres-new-malware-out-there.html | A previously undocumented malware downloader has been spotted in the wild in phishing attacks to deploy credential stealers and other malicious payloads.
Dubbed "Saint Bot," the malware is said to have first appeared on the scene in January 2021, with indications that it's under active development.
"Saint Bot is a down... | Malware |
Gigaset Android Update Server Hacked to Install Malware on Users' Devices | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/gigaset-android-update-server-hacked-to.html | Gigaset has revealed a malware infection discovered in its Android devices was the result of a compromise of a server belonging to an external update service provider.
Impacting older smartphone models — GS100, GS160, GS170, GS180, GS270 (plus), and GS370 (plus) series — the malware took the form of multiple unwanted a... | Malware |
Researchers uncover a new Iranian malware used in recent cyberattacks | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/researchers-uncover-new-iranian-malware.html | An Iranian threat actor has unleashed a new cyberespionage campaign against a possible Lebanese target with a backdoor capable of exfiltrating sensitive information from compromised systems.
Cybersecurity firm Check Point attributed the operation to APT34, citing similarities with previous techniques used by the threat... | Malware |
Hackers Exploit Unpatched VPNs to Install Ransomware on Industrial Targets | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/hackers-exploit-unpatched-vpns-to.html | Unpatched Fortinet VPN devices are being targeted in a series of attacks against industrial enterprises in Europe to deploy a new strain of ransomware called "Cring" inside corporate networks.
At least one of the hacking incidents led to the temporary shutdown of a production site, said cybersecurity firm Kaspersky in ... | Malware |
WhatsApp-based wormable Android malware spotted on the Google Play Store | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/whatsapp-based-wormable-android-malware.html | Cybersecurity researchers have discovered yet another piece of wormable Android malware—but this time downloadable directly from the official Google Play Store—that's capable of propagating via WhatsApp messages.
Disguised as a rogue Netflix app under the name of "FlixOnline," the malware comes with features that allow... | Malware |
Pre-Installed Malware Dropper Found On German Gigaset Android Phones | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/pre-installed-malware-dropper-found-on.html | In what appears to be a fresh twist in Android malware, users of Gigaset mobile devices are encountering unwanted apps that are being downloaded and installed through a pre-installed system update app.
"The culprit installing these malware apps is the Update app, package name com.redstone.ota.ui, which is a pre-install... | Malware |
Experts uncover a new Banking Trojan targeting Latin American users | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/experts-uncover-new-banking-trojan.html | Researchers on Tuesday revealed details of a new banking trojan targeting corporate users in Brazil at least since 2019 across various sectors such as engineering, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, finance, transportation, and government.
Dubbed "Janeleiro" by Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, the malware aims to disgui... | Malware |
Hackers Targeting professionals With 'more_eggs' Malware via LinkedIn Job Offers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/hackers-targeting-professionals-with.html | A new spear-phishing campaign is targeting professionals on LinkedIn with weaponized job offers in an attempt to infect targets with a sophisticated backdoor trojan called "more_eggs."
To increase the odds of success, the phishing lures take advantage of malicious ZIP archive files that have the same name as that of th... | Malware |
Hackers are implanting multiple backdoors at industrial targets in Japan | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/hackers-are-implanting-multiple.html | Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of a sophisticated campaign that deploys malicious backdoors for the purpose of exfiltrating information from a number of industry sectors located in Japan.
Dubbed "A41APT" by Kaspersky researchers, the findings delve into a new slew of attacks undertaken by APT10 ... | Malware |
Black Kingdom Ransomware Hunting Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/black-kingdom-ransomware-hunting.html | More than a week after Microsoft released a one-click mitigation tool to mitigate cyberattacks targeting on-premises Exchange servers, the company disclosed that patches have been applied to 92% of all internet-facing servers affected by the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities.
The development, a 43% improvement from the previo... | Malware |
Chinese Hackers Used Facebook to Hack Uighur Muslims Living Abroad | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/chinese-hackers-used-facebook-to-hack.html | Facebook may be banned in China, but the company on Wednesday said it has disrupted a network of bad actors using its platform to target the Uyghur community and lure them into downloading malicious software that would allow surveillance of their devices.
"They targeted activists, journalists and dissidents predominant... | Malware |
Purple Fox Rootkit Can Now Spread Itself to Other Windows Computers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/purple-fox-rootkit-can-now-spread.html | Purple Fox, a Windows malware previously known for infecting machines by using exploit kits and phishing emails, has now added a new technique to its arsenal that gives it worm-like propagation capabilities.
The ongoing campaign makes use of a "novel spreading technique via indiscriminate port scanning and exploitation... | Malware |
WARNING: A New Android Zero-Day Vulnerability Is Under Active Attack | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/warning-new-android-zero-day.html | Google has disclosed that a now-patched vulnerability affecting Android devices that use Qualcomm chipsets is being weaponized by adversaries to launch targeted attacks.
Tracked as CVE-2020-11261 (CVSS score 8.4), the flaw concerns an "improper input validation" issue in Qualcomm's Graphics component that could be expl... | Malware |
Tesla Ransomware Hacker Pleads Guilty; Swiss Hacktivist Charged for Fraud | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/tesla-ransomware-hacker-pledges-guilty.html | The U.S. Department of Justice yesterday announced updates on two separate cases involving cyberattacks—a Swiss hacktivist and a Russian hacker who planned to plant malware in the Tesla company.
A Swiss hacker who was involved in the intrusion of cloud-based surveillance firm Verkada and exposed camera footage from its... | Malware |
Hackers Infecting Apple App Developers With Trojanized Xcode Projects | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/hackers-infecting-apple-app-developers.html | Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed a new attack wherein threat actors are leveraging Xcode as an attack vector to compromise Apple platform developers with a backdoor, adding to a growing trend that involves targeting developers and researchers with malicious attacks.
Dubbed "XcodeSpy," the trojanized Xcod... | Malware |
New Mirai Variant and ZHtrap Botnet Malware Emerge in the Wild | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/new-mirai-variant-and-zhtrap-botnet.html | Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed a new wave of ongoing attacks exploiting multiple vulnerabilities to deploy new Mirai variants on internet connected devices.
"Upon successful exploitation, the attackers try to download a malicious shell script, which contains further infection behaviors such as downloadin... | Malware |
Researchers Spotted Malware Written in Nim Programming Language | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/researchers-spotted-malware-written-in.html | Cybersecurity researchers have unwrapped an "interesting email campaign" undertaken by a threat actor that has taken to distributing a new malware written in Nim programming language.
Dubbed "NimzaLoader" by Proofpoint researchers, the development marks one of the rare instances of Nim malware discovered in the threat ... | Malware |
Hackers Are Targeting Microsoft Exchange Servers With Ransomware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/icrosoft-exchange-ransomware.html | It didn't take long. Intelligence agencies and cybersecurity researchers had been warning that unpatched Exchange Servers could open the pathway for ransomware infections in the wake of swift escalation of the attacks since last week.
Now it appears that threat actors have caught up.
According to the latest reports, cy... | Malware |
Critical Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Found in F5 Big-IP Platform — Patch ASAP! | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/critical-pre-auth-rce-flaw-found-in-f5.html | Application security company F5 Networks on Wednesday published an advisory warning of four critical vulnerabilities impacting multiple products that could result in a denial of service (DoS) attack and even unauthenticated remote code execution on target networks.
The patches concern a total of seven related flaws (fr... | Malware |
Researchers Unveil New Linux Malware Linked to Chinese Hackers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/researchers-unveil-new-linux-malware.html | Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday shed light on a new sophisticated backdoor targeting Linux endpoints and servers that's believed to be the work of Chinese nation-state actors.
Dubbed "RedXOR" by Intezer, the backdoor masquerades as a polkit daemon, with similarities found between the malware and those previously... | Malware |
FIN8 Hackers Return With More Powerful Version of BADHATCH PoS Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/fin8-hackers-return-with-more-powerful.html | Threat actors known for keeping a low profile do so by ceasing operations for prolonged periods in between to evade attracting any attention as well as constantly refining their toolsets to fly below the radar of many detection technologies.
One such group is FIN8, a financially motivated threat actor that's back in ac... | Malware |
9 Android Apps On Google Play Caught Distributing AlienBot Banker and MRAT Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/9-android-apps-on-google-play-caught.html | Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malware dropper contained in as many as 9 Android apps distributed via Google Play Store that deploys a second stage malware capable of gaining intrusive access to the financial accounts of victims as well as full control of their devices.
"This dropper, dubbed Clast82, u... | Malware |
SolarWinds Hack — New Evidence Suggests Potential Links to Chinese Hackers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/solarwinds-hack-new-evidence-suggests.html | A malicious web shell deployed on Windows systems by leveraging a previously undisclosed zero-day in SolarWinds' Orion network monitoring software may have been the work of a possible Chinese threat group.
In a report published by Secureworks on Monday, the cybersecurity firm attributed the intrusions to a threat actor... | Malware |
Extortion Gang Breaches Cybersecurity Firm Qualys Using Accellion Exploit | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/extortion-gang-breaches-cybersecurity.html | Enterprise cloud security firm Qualys has become the latest victim to join a long list of entities to have suffered a data breach after zero-day vulnerabilities in its Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) server were exploited to steal sensitive business documents.
As proof of access to the data, the cybercriminals ... | Malware |
Hackers Now Hiding ObliqueRAT Payload in Images to Evade Detection | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/hackers-now-hiding-obliquerat-payload.html | Cybercriminals are now deploying remote access Trojans (RATs) under the guise of seemingly innocuous images hosted on infected websites, once again highlighting how threat actors quickly change tactics when their attack methods are discovered and exposed publicly.
New research released by Cisco Talos reveals an active ... | Malware |
Researchers Unearth Links Between SunCrypt and QNAPCrypt Ransomware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/researchers-unearth-links-between.html | SunCrypt, a ransomware strain that went on to infect several targets last year, may be an updated version of the QNAPCrypt ransomware, which targeted Linux-based file storage systems, according to new research.
"While the two ransomware [families] are operated by distinct different threat actors on the dark web, there ... | Malware |
Gootkit RAT Using SEO to Distribute Malware Through Compromised Sites | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/gootkit-rat-using-seo-to-distribute.html | A framework notorious for delivering a banking Trojan has received a facelift to deploy a wider range of malware, including ransomware payloads.
"The Gootkit malware family has been around more than half a decade – a mature Trojan with functionality centered around banking credential theft," Sophos researchers Gabor Sz... | Malware |
North Korean Hackers Targeting Defense Firms with ThreatNeedle Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/north-korean-hackers-targeting-defense.html | A prolific North Korean state-sponsored hacking group has been tied to a new ongoing espionage campaign aimed at exfiltrating sensitive information from organizations in the defense industry.
Attributing the attacks with high confidence to the Lazarus Group, the new findings from Kaspersky signal an expansion of the AP... | Malware |
Chinese Hackers Using Firefox Extension to Spy On Tibetan Organizations | https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/chinese-hackers-using-firefox-extension.html | Cybersecurity researchers today unwrapped a new campaign aimed at spying on vulnerable Tibetan communities globally by deploying a malicious Firefox extension on target systems.
"Threat actors aligned with the Chinese Communist Party's state interests delivered a customized malicious Mozilla Firefox browser extension t... | Malware |
Everything You Need to Know About Evolving Threat of Ransomware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/everything-you-need-to-know-about.html | The cybersecurity world is constantly evolving to new forms of threats and vulnerabilities. But ransomware proves to be a different animal—most destructive, persistent, notoriously challenging to prevent, and is showing no signs of slowing down.
Falling victim to a ransomware attack can cause significant data loss, dat... | Malware |
Critical RCE Flaws Affect VMware ESXi and vSphere Client — Patch Now | https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/critical-rce-flaw-affects-vmware.html | VMware has addressed multiple critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi and vSphere Client virtual infrastructure management platform that may allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands and take control of affected systems.
"A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this... | Malware |
Hackers Exploit Accellion Zero-Days in Recent Data Theft and Extortion Attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/hackers-exploit-accellion-zero-days-in.html | Cybersecurity researchers on Monday tied a string of attacks targeting Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) servers over the past two months to data theft and extortion campaign orchestrated by a cybercrime group called UNC2546.
The attacks, which began in mid-December 2020, involved exploiting multiple zero-day vul... | Malware |
Masslogger Trojan Upgraded to Steal All Your Outlook, Chrome Credentials | https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/masslogger-trojan-upgraded-to-steal-all.html | A credential stealer infamous for targeting Windows systems has resurfaced in a new phishing campaign that aims to steal credentials from Microsoft Outlook, Google Chrome, and instant messenger apps.
Primarily directed against users in Turkey, Latvia, and Italy starting mid-January, the attacks involve the use of MassL... | Malware |
First Malware Designed for Apple M1 Chip Discovered in the Wild | https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/first-malware-designed-for-apple-m1.html | One of the first malware samples tailored to run natively on Apple's M1 chips has been discovered, suggesting a new development that indicates that bad actors have begun adapting malicious software to target the company's latest generation of Macs powered by its own processors.
While the transition to Apple silicon has... | Malware |
Researchers Uncover Android Spying Campaign Targeting Pakistan Officials | https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/researchers-uncover-android-spying.html | Two new Android surveillanceware families have been found to target military, nuclear, and election entities in Pakistan and Kashmir as part of a pro-India, state-sponsored hacking campaign.
Dubbed Hornbill and Sunbird, the malware impersonates legitimate or seemingly innocuous services to cover its tracks, only to ste... | Malware |
LodaRAT Windows Malware Now Also Targets Android Devices | https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/lodarat-windows-malware-now-also.html | A previously known Windows remote access Trojan (RAT) with credential-stealing capabilities has now expanded its scope to set its sights on users of Android devices to further the attacker's espionage motives.
"The developers of LodaRAT have added Android as a targeted platform," Cisco Talos researchers said in a Tuesd... | Malware |
A New Linux Malware Targeting High-Performance Computing Clusters | https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/a-new-linux-malware-targeting-high.html | High-performance computing clusters belonging to university networks as well as servers associated with government agencies, endpoint security vendors, and internet service providers have been targeted by a newly discovered backdoor that gives attackers the ability to execute arbitrary commands on the systems remotely.... | Malware |
A New Software Supply‑Chain Attack Targeted Millions With Spyware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/a-new-software-supplychain-attack.html | Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a new supply chain attack targeting online gamers by compromising the update mechanism of NoxPlayer, a free Android emulator for PCs and Macs.
Dubbed "Operation NightScout" by Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, the highly-targeted surveillance campaign involved distributing three ... | Malware |
New Cryptojacking Malware Targeting Apache, Oracle, Redis Servers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/new-cryptojacking-malware-targeting.html | A financially-motivated threat actor notorious for its cryptojacking attacks has leveraged a revised version of their malware to target cloud infrastructures using vulnerabilities in web server technologies, according to new research.
Deployed by the China-based cybercrime group Rocke, the Pro-Ocean cryptojacking malwa... | Malware |
Hezbollah Hacker Group Targeted Telecoms, Hosting, ISPs Worldwide | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/hezbollah-hacker-group-targeted.html | A "persistent attacker group" with alleged ties to Hezbollah has retooled its malware arsenal with a new version of a remote access Trojan (RAT) to break into companies worldwide and extract valuable information.
In a new report published by the ClearSky research team on Thursday, the Israeli cybersecurity firm said it... | Malware |
European Authorities Disrupt Emotet — World's Most Dangerous Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/european-authorities-disrupt-emotet.html | Law enforcement agencies from as many as eight countries dismantled the infrastructure of Emotet, a notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks over the past decade.
The coordinated takedown of the botnet on Tuesday — dubbed "Operation Ladybird" — is the resu... | Malware |
Beware — A New Wormable Android Malware Spreading Through WhatsApp | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/beware-new-wormable-android-malware.html | A newly discovered Android malware has been found to propagate itself through WhatsApp messages to other contacts in order to expand what appears to be an adware campaign.
"This malware spreads via victim's WhatsApp by automatically replying to any received WhatsApp message notification with a link to [a] malicious Hua... | Malware |
Here's How SolarWinds Hackers Stayed Undetected for Long Enough | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/heres-how-solarwinds-hackers-stayed.html | Microsoft on Wednesday shared more specifics about the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) adopted by the attackers behind the SolarWinds hack to stay under the radar and avoid detection, as cybersecurity companies work towards getting a "clearer picture" of one of the most sophisticated attacks in recent histor... | Malware |
Researchers Discover Raindrop — 4th Malware Linked to the SolarWinds Attack | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/researchers-discover-raindrop-4th.html | Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a fourth new malware strain—designed to spread the malware onto other computers in victims' networks—which was deployed as part of the SolarWinds supply chain attack disclosed late last year.
Dubbed "Raindrop" by Broadcom-owned Symantec, the malware joins the likes of other mali... | Malware |
FreakOut! Ongoing Botnet Attack Exploiting Recent Linux Vulnerabilities | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/freakout-ongoing-botnet-attack.html | An ongoing malware campaign has been found exploiting recently disclosed vulnerabilities in network-attached storage (NAS) devices running on Linux systems to co-opt the machines into an IRC botnet for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and mining Monero cryptocurrency.
The attacks deploy a new malw... | Malware |
Apple Removes macOS Feature That Allowed Apps to Bypass Firewall Security | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/apple-removes-macos-feature-that.html | Apple has removed a controversial feature from its macOS operating system that allowed the company's own first-party apps to bypass content filters, VPNs, and third-party firewalls.
Called "ContentFilterExclusionList," it included a list of as many as 50 Apple apps like iCloud, Maps, Music, FaceTime, HomeKit, the App S... | Malware |
Researchers Disclose Undocumented Chinese Malware Used in Recent Attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/researchers-disclose-undocumented.html | Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a series of attacks by a threat actor of Chinese origin that has targeted organizations in Russia and Hong Kong with malware — including a previously undocumented backdoor.
Attributing the campaign to Winnti (or APT41), Positive Technologies dated the first attack to May 12, 202... | Malware |
Experts Uncover Malware Attacks Against Colombian Government and Companies | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/experts-uncover-malware-attacks-against.html | Cybersecurity researchers took the wraps off an ongoing surveillance campaign directed against Colombian government institutions and private companies in the energy and metallurgical industries.
In a report published by ESET on Tuesday, the Slovak internet security company said the attacks — dubbed "Operation Spalax" —... | Malware |
Intel Adds Hardware-Enabled Ransomware Detection to 11th Gen vPro Chips | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/intel-adds-hardware-enabled-ransomware.html | Intel and Cybereason have partnered to build anti-ransomware defenses into the chipmaker's newly announced 11th generation Core vPro business-class processors.
The hardware-based security enhancements are baked into Intel's vPro platform via its Hardware Shield and Threat Detection Technology (TDT), enabling profiling ... | Malware |
Warning — 5 New Trojanized Android Apps Spying On Users In Pakistan | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/warning-5-new-trojanized-android-apps.html | Cybersecurity researchers took the wraps off a new spyware operation targeting users in Pakistan that leverages trojanized versions of legitimate Android apps to carry out covert surveillance and espionage.
Designed to masquerade apps such as the Pakistan Citizen Portal, a Muslim prayer-clock app called Pakistan Salat ... | Malware |
Experts Sound Alarm On New Android Malware Sold On Hacking Forums | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/experts-sound-alarm-on-new-android.html | Cybersecurity researchers have exposed the operations of an Android malware vendor who teamed up with a second threat actor to market and sell a remote access Trojan (RAT) capable of device takeover and exfiltration of photos, locations, contacts, and messages from popular apps such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Sk... | Malware |
Unveiled: SUNSPOT Malware Was Used to Inject SolarWinds Backdoor | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/unveiled-sunspot-malware-was-used-to.html | As the investigation into the SolarWinds supply-chain attack continues, cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a third malware strain that was deployed into the build environment to inject the backdoor into the company's Orion network monitoring platform.
Called "Sunspot," the malignant tool adds to a growing list of... | Malware |
ALERT: North Korean hackers targeting South Korea with RokRat Trojan | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/alert-north-korean-hackers-targeting.html | A North Korean hacking group has been found deploying the RokRat Trojan in a new spear-phishing campaign targeting the South Korean government.
Attributing the attack to APT37 (aka Starcruft, Ricochet Chollima, or Reaper), Malwarebytes said it identified a malicious document last December that, when opened, executes a ... | Malware |
Hackers Using Fake Trump's Scandal Video to Spread QNode Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/hackers-using-fake-trumps-scandal-video.html | Cybesecurity researchers today revealed a new malspam campaign that distributes a remote access Trojan (RAT) by purporting to contain a sex scandal video of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The emails, which carry with the subject line "GOOD LOAN OFFER!!," come attached with a Java archive (JAR) file called "TRUMP_SEX_SCAN... | Malware |
Warning: Cross-Platform ElectroRAT Malware Targeting Cryptocurrency Users | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/warning-cross-platform-electrorat.html | Cybersecurity researchers today revealed a wide-ranging scam targeting cryptocurrency users that began as early as January last year to distribute trojanized applications to install a previously undetected remote access tool on target systems.
Called ElectroRAT by Intezer, the RAT is written from ground-up in Golang an... | Malware |
Ticketmaster To Pay $10 Million Fine For Hacking A Rival Company | https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/ticketmaster-to-pay-10-million-fine-for.html | Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million fine after being charged with illegally accessing computer systems of a competitor repeatedly between 2013 and 2015 in an attempt to "cut [the company] off at the knees."
A subsidiary of Live Nation, the California-based ticket sales and distribution company used the stolen ... | Malware |
Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Accessed Some of Its Source Code | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/microsoft-says-solarwinds-hackers.html | Microsoft on Thursday revealed that the threat actors behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack were able to gain access to a small number of internal accounts and escalate access inside its internal network.
The "very sophisticated nation-state actor" used the unauthorized access to view, but not modify, the source co... | Malware |
AutoHotkey-Based Password Stealer Targeting US, Canadian Banking Users | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/autohotkey-based-password-stealer.html | Threat actors have been discovered distributing a new credential stealer written in AutoHotkey (AHK) scripting language as part of an ongoing campaign that started early 2020.
Customers of financial institutions in the US and Canada are among the primary targets for credential exfiltration, with a specific focus on ban... | Malware |
A New SolarWinds Flaw Likely Had Let Hackers Install SUPERNOVA Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/a-new-solarwinds-flaw-likely-had-let.html | An authentication bypass vulnerability in the SolarWinds Orion software may have been leveraged by adversaries as a zero-day to deploy the SUPERNOVA malware in target environments.
According to an advisory published yesterday by the CERT Coordination Center, the SolarWinds Orion API that's used to interface with all ot... | Malware |
Microsoft Warns CrowdStrike of Hackers Targeting Azure Cloud Customers | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/microsoft-warns-crowdstrike-of-hackers.html | New evidence amidst the ongoing probe into the espionage campaign targeting SolarWinds has uncovered an unsuccessful attempt to compromise cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike and access the company's email.
The hacking endeavor was reported to the company by Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center on December 15, which ident... | Malware |
North Korean Hackers Trying to Steal COVID-19 Vaccine Research | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/north-korean-hackers-trying-to-steal.html | Threat actors such as the notorious Lazarus group are continuing to tap into the ongoing COVID-19 vaccine research to steal sensitive information to speed up their countries' vaccine-development efforts.
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky detailed two incidents at a pharmaceutical company and a government ministry in Septemb... | Malware |
How to Defend Against Malware, Phishing, and Scams During COVID-19 Crisis | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/how-to-defend-against-malware-phishing.html | As if the exponential rise in phishing scams and malware attacks in the last five years wasn't enough, the COVID-19 crisis has worsened it further.
The current scenario has given a viable opportunity to cybercriminals to find a way to target individuals, small and large enterprises, government corporations.
According t... | Malware |
A Second Hacker Group May Have Also Breached SolarWinds, Microsoft Says | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/a-second-hacker-group-may-have-also.html | As the probe into the SolarWinds supply chain attack continues, new digital forensic evidence has brought to light that a separate threat actor may have been abusing the IT infrastructure provider's Orion software to drop a similar persistent backdoor on target systems.
"The investigation of the whole SolarWinds compro... | Malware |
Software Supply-Chain Attack Hits Vietnam Government Certification Authority | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/software-supply-chain-attack-hits.html | Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a new supply-chain attack targeting the Vietnam Government Certification Authority (VGCA) that compromised the agency's digital signature toolkit to install a backdoor on victim systems.
Uncovered by Slovak internet security company ESET early this month, the "SignSight" attack... | Malware |
New Evidence Suggests SolarWinds' Codebase Was Hacked to Inject Backdoor | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/new-evidence-suggests-solarwinds.html | The investigation into how the attackers managed to compromise SolarWinds' internal network and poison the company's software updates is still underway, but we may be one step closer to understanding what appears to be a very meticulously planned and highly-sophisticated supply chain attack.
A new report published by R... | Malware |
SolarWinds Issues Second Hotfix for Orion Platform Supply Chain Attack | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/solarwinds-issues-second-hotfix-for_15.html | Network monitoring services provider SolarWinds officially released a second hotfix to address a critical vulnerability in its Orion platform that was exploited to insert malware and breach public and private entities in a wide-ranging espionage campaign.
In a new update posted to its advisory page, the company urged i... | Malware |
Wormable Gitpaste-12 Botnet Returns to Target Linux Servers, IoT Devices | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/wormable-gitpaste-12-botnet-returns-to.html | A new wormable botnet that spreads via GitHub and Pastebin to install cryptocurrency miners and backdoors on target systems has returned with expanded capabilities to compromise web applications, IP cameras, and routers.
Early last month, researchers from Juniper Threat Labs documented a crypto-mining campaign called "... | Malware |
Nearly 18,000 SolarWinds Customers Installed Backdoored Software | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/nearly-18000-solarwinds-customers.html | SolarWinds, the enterprise monitoring software provider which found itself at the epicenter of the most consequential supply chain attacks, said as many as 18,000 of its high-profile customers might have installed a tainted version of its Orion products.
The acknowledgment comes as part of a new filing made by the comp... | Malware |
Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers via Wi-Fi Signals (Without Wi-Fi Hardware) | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/exfiltrating-data-from-air-gapped.html | A security researcher has demonstrated that sensitive data could be exfiltrated from air-gapped computers via a novel technique that leverages Wi-Fi signals as a covert channel—surprisingly, without requiring the presence of Wi-Fi hardware on the targeted systems.
Dubbed "AIR-FI," the attack hinges on deploying a speci... | Malware |
SoReL-20M: A Huge Dataset of 20 Million Malware Samples Released Online | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/sorel-20m-huge-dataset-of-20-million.html | Cybersecurity firms Sophos and ReversingLabs on Monday jointly released the first-ever production-scale malware research dataset to be made available to the general public that aims to build effective defenses and drive industry-wide improvements in security detection and response.
"SoReL-20M" (short for Sophos-Reversi... | Malware |
Mount Locker Ransomware Offering Double Extortion Scheme to Other Hackers | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/mount-locker-ransomware-offering-double.html | A relatively new ransomware strain behind a series of breaches on corporate networks has developed new capabilities that allow it to broaden the scope of its targeting and evade security software—as well as with ability for its affiliates to launch double extortion attacks.
The MountLocker ransomware, which only began ... | Malware |
Watch Out! Adrozek Malware Hijacking Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Yandex Browsers | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/watch-out-adrozek-malware-hijacking.html | Microsoft on Thursday took the wraps off an ongoing campaign impacting popular web browsers that stealthily injects malware-infested ads into search results to earn money via affiliate advertising.
"Adrozek," as it's called by the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team, employs an "expansive, dynamic attacker infrastruct... | Malware |
Russian APT28 Hackers Using COVID-19 as Bait to Deliver Zebrocy Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/russian-apt28-hackers-using-covid-19-as.html | A Russian threat actor known for its malware campaigns has reappeared in the threat landscape with yet another attack leveraging COVID-19 as phishing lures, once again indicating how adversaries are adept at repurposing the current world events to their advantage.
Linking the operation to a sub-group of APT28 (aka Sofa... | Malware |
Amnesia:33 — Critical TCP/IP Flaws Affect Millions of IoT Devices | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/amnesia33-critical-tcpip-flaws-affect.html | Cybersecurity researchers disclosed a dozen new flaws in multiple widely-used embedded TCP/IP stacks impacting millions of devices ranging from networking equipment and medical devices to industrial control systems that could be exploited by an attacker to take control of a vulnerable system.
Collectively called "AMNES... | Malware |
Payment Card Skimmer Group Using Raccoon Info-Stealer to Siphon Off Data | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/payment-card-skimmer-group-using.html | A cybercrime group known for targeting e-commerce websites unleashed a "multi-stage malicious campaign" earlier this year designed with an intent to distribute information stealers and JavaScript-based payment skimmers.
In a new report published today and shared with The Hacker News, Singapore-based cybersecurity firm ... | Malware |
Hackers-For-Hire Group Develops New 'PowerPepper' In-Memory Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/hackers-for-hire-group-develops-new.html | Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed details of a previously undiscovered in-memory Windows backdoor developed by a hacker-for-hire operation that can execute remotely malicious code and steal sensitive information from its targets in Asia, Europe, and the US.
Dubbed "PowerPepper" by Kaspersky researchers, t... | Malware |
TrickBot Malware Gets UEFI/BIOS Bootkit Feature to Remain Undetected | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/trickbot-malware-gets-uefibios-bootkit.html | TrickBot, one of the most notorious and adaptable malware botnets in the world, is expanding its toolset to set its sights on firmware vulnerabilities to potentially deploy bootkits and take complete control of an infected system.
The new functionality, dubbed "TrickBoot" by Advanced Intelligence (AdvIntel) and Eclypsi... | Malware |
Experts Uncover 'Crutch' Russian Malware Used in APT Attacks for 5 Years | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/experts-uncover-crutch-russian-malware.html | Cybersecurity researchers today took the wraps off a previously undocumented backdoor and document stealer that has been deployed against specific targets from 2015 to early 2020.
Codenamed "Crutch" by ESET researchers, the malware has been attributed to Turla (aka Venomous Bear or Snake), a Russia-based advanced hacke... | Malware |
Nation-State Hackers Caught Hiding Espionage Activities Behind Crypto Miners | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/nation-state-hackers-caught-hiding.html | A nation-state actor known for its cyber espionage campaigns since 2012 is now using coin miner techniques to stay under the radar and establish persistence on victim systems, according to new research.
Attributing the shift to a threat actor tracked as Bismuth, Microsoft's Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Te... | Malware |
Digitally Signed Bandook Malware Once Again Targets Multiple Sectors | https://thehackernews.com/2020/11/digitally-signed-bandook-malware-once.html | A cyberespionage group with suspected ties to the Kazakh and Lebanese governments has unleashed a new wave of attacks against a multitude of industries with a retooled version of a 13-year-old backdoor Trojan.
Check Point Research called out hackers affiliated with a group named Dark Caracal in a new report published y... | Malware |
Interpol Arrests 3 Nigerian BEC Scammers For Targeting Over 500,000 Entities | https://thehackernews.com/2020/11/interpol-arrest-3-nigerian-bec-scammers.html | Three Nigerian citizens suspected of being members of an organized cybercrime group behind distributing malware, carrying out phishing campaigns, and extensive Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams have been arrested in the city of Lagos, Interpol reported yesterday.
The investigation, dubbed "Operation Falcon," was jo... | Malware |
Evolution of Emotet: From Banking Trojan to Malware Distributor | https://thehackernews.com/2020/11/anyrun-emotet-malware-analysis.html | Emotet is one of the most dangerous and widespread malware threats active today.
Ever since its discovery in 2014—when Emotet was a standard credential stealer and banking Trojan, the malware has evolved into a modular, polymorphic platform for distributing other kinds of computer viruses.
Being constantly under develo... | Malware |
Chinese APT Hackers Target Southeast Asian Government Institutions | https://thehackernews.com/2020/11/chinese-apt-hackers-target-southeast.html | Cybersecurity researchers today unveiled a complex and targeted espionage attack on potential government sector victims in South East Asia that they believe was carried out by a sophisticated Chinese APT group at least since 2018.
"The attack has a complex and complete arsenal of droppers, backdoors and other tools inv... | Malware |
Uncovered: APT 'Hackers For Hire' Target Financial, Entertainment Firms | https://thehackernews.com/2020/11/uncovered-apt-hackers-for-hire-target.html | A hackers-for-hire operation has been discovered using a strain of previously undocumented malware to target South Asian financial institutions and global entertainment companies.
Dubbed "CostaRicto" by Blackberry researchers, the campaign appears to be the handiwork of APT mercenaries who possess bespoke malware tooli... | Malware |
New ModPipe Point of Sale (POS) Malware Targeting Restaurants, Hotels | https://thehackernews.com/2020/11/new-modpipe-point-of-sale-pos-malware.html | Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a new kind of modular backdoor that targets point-of-sale (POS) restaurant management software from Oracle in an attempt to pilfer sensitive payment information stored in the devices.
The backdoor — dubbed "ModPipe" — impacts Oracle MICROS Restaurant Enterprise Series (RES) 370... | Malware |
North Korean Hackers Used 'Torisma' Spyware in Job Offers-based Attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2020/11/north-korean-hackers-used-torisma.html | A cyberespionage campaign aimed at aerospace and defense sectors in order to install data gathering implants on victims' machines for purposes of surveillance and data exfiltration may have been more sophisticated than previously thought.
The attacks, which targeted IP-addresses belonging to internet service providers ... | Malware |
New Kimsuky Module Makes North Korean Spyware More Powerful | https://thehackernews.com/2020/11/new-kimsuky-module-makes-north-korean.html | A week after the US government issued an advisory about a "global intelligence gathering mission" operated by North Korean state-sponsored hackers, new findings have emerged about the threat group's spyware capabilities.
The APT — dubbed "Kimsuky" (aka Black Banshee or Thallium) and believed to be active as early as 20... | Malware |
Browser Bugs Exploited to Install 2 New Backdoors on Targeted Computers | https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/browser-exploit-backdoor.html | Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about a new watering hole attack targeting the Korean diaspora that exploits vulnerabilities in web browsers such as Google Chrome and Internet Explorer to deploy malware for espionage purposes.
Dubbed "Operation Earth Kitsune" by Trend Micro, the campaign involves the u... | Malware |
TrickBot Linux Variants Active in the Wild Despite Recent Takedown | https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/trickbot-linux-variants-active-in-wild.html | Efforts to disrupt TrickBot may have shut down most of its critical infrastructure, but the operators behind the notorious malware aren't sitting idle.
According to new findings shared by cybersecurity firm Netscout, TrickBot's authors have moved portions of their code to Linux in an attempt to widen the scope of victi... | Malware |
New Chrome 0-day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now | https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/chrome-zeroday-attacks.html | Attention readers, if you are using Google Chrome browser on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computers, you need to update your web browsing software immediately to the latest version Google released earlier today.
Google released Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 today to patch several security high-severity issues, including ... | Malware |
Windows GravityRAT Malware Now Also Targets macOS and Android Devices | https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/windows-gravityrat-malware-now-also.html | A Windows-based remote access Trojan believed to be designed by Pakistani hacker groups to infiltrate computers and steal users' data has resurfaced after a two-year span with retooled capabilities to target Android and macOS devices.
According to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, the malware — dubbed "GravityRAT" — now ma... | Malware |
U.S. Charges 6 Russian Intelligence Officers Over Destructive Cyberattacks | https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/russian-hackers.html | The US government on Monday formally charged six Russian intelligence officers for carrying out destructive malware attacks with an aim to disrupt and destabilize other nations and cause monetary losses.
The individuals, who work for Unit 74455 of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), have been accused of pe... | Malware |
Police Raided German Spyware Company FinFisher Offices | https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/finfisher-spyware-raid.html | German investigating authorities have raided the offices of Munich-based company FinFisher that sells the infamous commercial surveillance spyware dubbed 'FinSpy,' reportedly in suspicion of illegally exporting the software to abroad without the required authorization.
Investigators from the German Customs Investigatio... | Malware |
FIN11 Hackers Spotted Using New Techniques In Ransomware Attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/fin11-hackers-spotted-using-new.html | A financially-motivated threat actor known for its malware distribution campaigns has evolved its tactics to focus on ransomware and extortion.
According to FireEye's Mandiant threat intelligence team, the collective — known as FIN11 — has engaged in a pattern of cybercrime campaigns at least since 2016 that involves m... | Malware |
Microsoft and Other Tech Companies Take Down TrickBot Botnet | https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/trickbot-computer-virus.html | Days after the US Government took steps to disrupt the notorious TrickBot botnet, a group of cybersecurity and tech companies has detailed a separate coordinated effort to take down the malware's back-end infrastructure.
The joint collaboration, which involved Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, ... | Malware |
Watch Out — Microsoft Warns Android Users About A New Ransomware | https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/android-ransomware-lock.html | Microsoft has warned about a new strain of mobile ransomware that takes advantage of incoming call notifications and Android's Home button to lock the device behind a ransom note.
The findings concern a variant of a known Android ransomware family dubbed "MalLocker.B" which has now resurfaced with new techniques, inclu... | Malware |
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