Chinese UNC4841 Group Exploits Zero-Day Flaw in Barracuda Email Security Gateway
Jun 15, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan A suspected China-nexus threat actor dubbed UNC4841 has been linked to the exploitation of a recently patched zero-day flaw in Barracuda…
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Vidar Malware Using New Tactics to Evade Detection and Anonymize Activities
Jun 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Threat The threat actors behind the Vidar malware have made changes to their backend infrastructure, indicating attempts to retool…
New Supply Chain Attack Exploits Abandoned S3 Buckets to Distribute Malicious Binaries
Jun 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananSoftware Supply Chain In what’s a new kind of software supply chain attack aimed at open source projects, it has emerged that…
GravityRAT Android Trojan Steals WhatsApp Backups and Deletes Files
Jun 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Privacy An updated version of an Android remote access trojan dubbed GravityRAT has been found masquerading as messaging apps…
6% of Employees Paste Sensitive Data into GenAI tools as ChatGPT
Jun 15, 2023The Hacker NewsBrowser Security / Data Security The revolutionary technology of GenAI tools, such as ChatGPT, has brought significant risks to organizations’ sensitive…
New Report Reveals Shuckworm’s Long-Running Intrusions on Ukrainian Organizations
Jun 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber War / Threat Intel The Russian threat actor known as Shuckworm has continued its cyber assault spree against Ukrainian entities in…
Microsoft Warns of New Russian State-Sponsored Hacker Group with Destructive Intent
Jun 15, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan Microsoft on Wednesday took the lid off a “novel and distinct Russian threat actor,” which it said is linked to the…
LockBit Ransomware Extorts $91 Million from U.S. Companies
The threat actors behind the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme have extorted $91 million following hundreds of attacks against numerous U.S. organizations since 2020. That’s according…
Chinese Hackers Exploit VMware Zero-Day to Backdoor Windows and Linux Systems
Jun 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Network Security The Chinese state-sponsored group known as UNC3886 has been found to exploit a zero-day flaw in VMware ESXi…
Severe Vulnerabilities Reported in Microsoft Azure Bastion and Container Registry
Jun 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability Two “dangerous” security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Microsoft Azure Bastion and Azure Container Registry that could have…
Where from, Where to — The Evolution of Network Security
Jun 14, 2023The Hacker NewsThreat Intel / Network Security For the better part of the 90s and early aughts, the sysadmin handbook said, “Filter your…
New Golang-based Skuld Malware Stealing Discord and Browser Data from Windows PCs
Jun 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware A new Golang-based information stealer called Skuld has compromised Windows systems across Europe, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.…