Category: Hacking

April 26, 2024

Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw in the WP‑Automatic plugin for WordPress that could allow site takeovers. The shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2024-27956, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10. It […]

April 24, 2024

A new malware campaign has been exploiting the updating mechanism of the eScan antivirus software to distribute backdoors and cryptocurrency miners like XMRig through a long-standing threat codenamed GuptiMiner targeting large corporate networks. Cybersecurity firm Avast said the activity is […]

April 19, 2024

Government entities in the Middle East have been targeted as part of a previously undocumented campaign to deliver a new backdoor dubbed CR4T. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said it discovered the activity in February 2024, with evidence suggesting that it […]

April 17, 2024

A previously undocumented “flexible” backdoor called Kapeka has been “sporadically” observed in cyber attacks targeting Eastern Europe, including Estonia and Ukraine, since at least mid-2022. The findings come from Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure, which attributed the malware to the Russia-linked […]

April 8, 2024

Threat hunters have discovered a new malware called Latrodectus that has been distributed as part of email phishing campaigns since at least late November 2023. “Latrodectus is an up-and-coming downloader with various sandbox evasion functionality,” researchers from Proofpoint and Team […]

April 5, 2024

Multiple China-nexus threat actors have been linked to the zero-day exploitation of three security flaws impacting Ivanti appliances (CVE-2023-46805, CVE-2024-21887, and CVE-2024-21893). The clusters are being tracked by Mandiant under the monikers UNC5221, UNC5266, UNC5291, UNC5325, UNC5330, and UNC5337. Another […]

April 2, 2024

A threat activity cluster tracked as Earth Freybug has been observed using a new malware called UNAPIMON to fly under the radar. “Earth Freybug is a cyberthreat group that has been active since at least 2012 that focuses on espionage […]

March 27, 2024

A now-patched security flaw in the Microsoft Edge web browser could have been abused to install arbitrary extensions on users’ systems and carry out malicious actions. “This flaw could have allowed an attacker to exploit a private API, initially intended […]

March 21, 2024

Researchers recently disclosed a significant security flaw in Dormakaba’s Saflok electronic RFID locks, which are popular with hotels. It could allow a hacker to clone a hotel’s keycard to access any room in the building. It is unclear whether hackers […]

March 19, 2024

A new phishing campaign is targeting U.S. organizations with the intent to deploy a remote access trojan called NetSupport RAT. Israeli cybersecurity company Perception Point is tracking the activity under the moniker Operation PhantomBlu. “The PhantomBlu operation introduces a nuanced […]

March 14, 2024

The Russian-speaking cybercrime group called RedCurl is leveraging a legitimate Microsoft Windows component called the Program Compatibility Assistant (PCA) to execute malicious commands. “The Program Compatibility Assistant Service (pcalua.exe) is a Windows service designed to identify and address compatibility issues […]

February 14, 2024

A newly disclosed security flaw in the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen has been exploited as a zero-day by an advanced persistent threat actor called Water Hydra (aka DarkCasino) targeting financial market traders. Trend Micro, which began tracking the campaign in late […]

February 13, 2024

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Roundcube email software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-43770 (CVSS score: 6.1), […]

January 31, 2024

Security analytics firm Mandiant recently uncovered a “never-before-seen” attack chain that used Base 64 encoding on at least two different websites to deliver the second-stage payload of a three-stage malware. The two sites were tech publication Ars Technica and video […]

January 17, 2024

A new security vulnerability called LeftoverLocals affects GPUs made by some of the leading names, like AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm. It enables data theft from the GPU’s memory irrespective of the form factor and operating system. The flaw was discovered […]

December 19, 2023

Threat actors are increasingly making use of GitHub for malicious purposes through novel methods, including abusing secret Gists and issuing malicious commands via git commit messages. “Malware authors occasionally place their samples in services like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and […]

December 8, 2023

Ransomware attacks have become a significant and pervasive threat in the ever-evolving realm of cybersecurity. Among the various iterations of ransomware, one trend that has gained prominence is Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS). This alarming development has transformed the cybercrime landscape, enabling individuals […]

December 7, 2023

Understanding what defines our humanity, recognizing how our qualities can be perceived as vulnerabilities, and comprehending how our minds can be targeted provide the foundation for identifying and responding when we inevitably become the target. The human mind is a […]

November 30, 2023

According to fraud control platform Arkose Labs, a staggering 73 percent of Internet traffic to websites and apps measured between January 2023 and September 2023 was related to bots performing malicious activities like SMS toll fraud, scraping, and card testing. […]

November 17, 2023

Threat actors are leveraging manipulated search results and bogus Google ads that trick users who are looking to download legitimate software such as WinSCP into installing malware instead. Cybersecurity company Securonix is tracking the ongoing activity under the name SEO#LURKER. […]