Magnet Goblin, a financially motivated threat actor, is swiftly adopting one-day security vulnerabilities into its arsenal to opportunistically breach edge devices and public-facing services and deploy malware on compromised hosts. Threat actor group Magnet Goblin's hallmark is its ability to swiftly leverage newly disclosed vulnerabilities, mainly targeting public-facing servers and edge devices. In some cases, the deployment of the exploits is within 1 day after a [proof-of-concept] is publi
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Cybersecurity researchers have identified an updated version of a macOS information stealer called Atomic (or AMOS), indicating that the threat actors behind the malware are actively enhancing its capabilities. It looks like Atomic Stealer was updated around mid to late December 2023, where its developers introduced payload encryption to bypass detection rules.
Atomic Stealer first emerged in April 2023 for a monthly subscription of $1,000. It's capable of harvesting sensitive information from a
The banking malware known as Carbanak has been observed to be used in ransomware attacks with updated tactics. The malware has adapted to incorporate attack vendors and techniques to diversify its effectiveness. Carbanak returned in November 2023 through new distribution chains and has been distributed through compromised websites to impersonate various business-related software.
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Some impersonated tools include popular
At its most basic, the term “auto fill” refers to a feature or set of features that enables users to insert previously entered information into web pages. Depending on the specific application being used, this can be any sort of information like names and address, moving all the way up to information that needs more protection such as credit card numbers and username/password combinations.
On Android devices, it is often the case that an application will display a login form by using what’s cal
A new malvertising campaign has been found to employ fake sites that masquerade as legitimate Windows news portal to propagate a malicious installer for a popular system profiling tool called CPU-Z. This incident is a part of a larger malvertising campaign that targets other utilities like Notepad++, Citrix, and VNC Viewer as seen in its infrastructure (domain names) and cloaking templates used to avoid detection.
While malvertising campaigns are known to set up replica sites advertising widely
A highly sophisticated piece of malware posing as a cryptocurrency miner has stayed hidden for five years, infecting more than one million devices, cybersecurity investigators warn. Named StripedFly, the threat contains code sequences previously observed in the malware used by the threat actor known as the Equation Group, known for APT malware and attacks, which has been linked to the US National Security Agency.
Designed as a modular framework, StripedFly can target both Windows and Linux and
A new information stealer named ExelaStealer has become the latest one to become available to the hacker audience. There are many choices available for off-the-shelf malware designed to capture sensitive data from compromised Windows systems. ExelaStealer is a largely open-source infostealer with paid customizations available from the threat actor creator.
Written in Python and incorporating support for JavaScript, it comes fitted with capabilities to siphon passwords, Discord tokens, credit c
A new malware-as-a-service option for cybercriminals known as BunnyLoader was released on September 4th, 2023. It has since seen a variety of updates and has reached version 2.0. As one might expect from any number of the “as a service” monikers, malware-as-a-service is a business model for cybercriminals. The business model is such that malware and its associated infrastructure are provided to customers for a fee. This can also be seen as a variation to the software-as-a-service model.
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In 1923, the Soviet Union created the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (an oblast is an administrative region or province) within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. This oblast has a 95% ethnically Armenian population. In 1988, Nagorno-Karabakh intended to leave Azerbaijan and join the neighboring Republic of Armenia. While the Soviet Union was able to keep the resulting tension under control, once the USSR began to collapse, armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia began for co
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) released a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) regarding new Truebot malware variants that are being used against organizations in the United States and Canada.
Older versions of the Truebot malware variant were delivered via malicious phishing email attachments, the CSA expla
A common tactic for cybercriminals is to distribute storage drives, phones, or other internet-connected devices filled with hidden malware to hack victims and steal their information. Although smartwatches have not been known for major security breaches so far, they carry many of the same vulnerabilities as other IoT products and warrant a similar degree of caution. A recent InfraGard brief by DHS cautioned the use of Smartphones and being vulnerable to malware.
The US Army’s Criminal Investiga
Detection of malware is typically done using virus definitions or signatures in a database. Security products, such as antiviruses, will scan files using a virus database to detect if the files are good or bad. They detect files as good if they don’t match an entry in the database and consider files bad if they do match an entry. It works almost like an advanced blacklist.
Malware authors understand how security products work and build malware that these products cannot detect. In the undergr
During the dark days of COVID-19, the transfer from office to remote working cybersecurity was often neglected so that businesses could just “stay in business.” Even after a couple years, common sense tells us that companies would have caught up with cybersecurity. There are three business scenarios: those that have been attacked, those that do not know they have been attacked, and those that are going to be attacked.
The risks are high with research showing the average cost of an IT security
The nasty Iranian nation-state APT group known as Charming Kitten is actively targeting multiple victims in the US, Europe, the Middle East, and India with a new malware named BellaCiao, adding to its ever-expanding list of custom tools. Discovered by Bitdefender Labs, BellaCiao is a "Personalized dropper" that is capable of delivering other malware payloads onto a victim machine based on commands received from an actor-controlled server. The attackers appear to customize their attacks for eac
It is one of China’s most popular shopping apps, selling clothing, groceries and just about everything else under the sun to more than 750 million users a month. But according to cybersecurity researchers, it can also bypass users’ cell phone security to monitor activities on other apps, check notifications, read private messages and change settings. And once installed, it’s tough to remove.
While many apps collect vast troves of user data, sometimes without explicit consent, experts say e-com
A new financially motivated campaign that began in December 2022 has seen the unidentified threat actor behind it deploying a novel ransomware strain dubbed MortalKombat and a clipper malware known as Laplas. Investigators said it "observed the actor scanning the internet for victim machines with an exposed remote desktop protocol (RDP) port 3389." The attacks primarily focus on individuals, small businesses, and large organizations located in the US, and to a lesser extent in the UK, Turkey,
Cybersecurity researchers have found a new piece of evasive malware named “Beep” (just one Beep) designed to operate undetected and deliver additional payloads onto a compromised host. The authors of this malware were trying to implement as many anti-debugging and anti-VM (anti-sandbox) techniques as they could find, reported investigators. One such technique involved delaying execution through the Beep API function, hence the malware's name.[1]
All PCs previously shared an 8254 programmable i
A few weeks ago, Hackread.com reported about a malware-infected Android TV box available on Amazon: the T95 TV box.[1] The box contained pre-installed malware, which was discovered by a Canadian developer and security systems consultant. Now the same TV box is in the news again, and the person who has identified security threats is a Malwarebytes mobile malware researcher. He purchased this device from Amazon to further probe and instantly realized something was off about this TV box. He di
Cyberattacks in the US have significantly increased over the past year, with the healthcare system and other critical sectors being attacked as the threat of malware like ransomware and foreign spyware continues to evolve. During 2022, US government officials and lawmakers renewed their focus on cyber security and sought to secure the country’s critical sectors from rising cyber threats. This issue will increase in 2023, as many of those threats are still escalating while the cyber sector is c
RisePro is an information-stealing malware that was first discovered in mid-December 2022. The earliest log recording from this malware, as of the time of this writing, was December 12th, 2022. The logs found were posted to Russian Market, which is a log shop that is like other markets, such as Genesis. There appeared to be multiple thousands of logs posted [2]. RisePro appears to be written in C++ and acts similarly to the “Vidar” malware. According to a Joe Sandbox analysis, RisePro exhib
