Security Affairs newsletter Round 435 by Pierluigi Paganini

Cybercrime

Unpacking the MOVEit Breach: Statistics and Analysis   

Cl0p Ups The Ante With Massive MOVEit Transfer Supply-Chain Exploit  

FBI, Partners Dismantle Qakbot Infrastructure in Multinational Cyber Takedown   

U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections  

Under Siege: Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Cisco ASA SSL VPNs  

Why is .US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?  

Cybercrime to cost Germany 206 billion euros in 2023, survey finds 

Malware

Lockbit leak, research opportunities on tools leaked from TAs  

Updated Kmsdx Binary Shows KmsdBot Is Targeting the IoT Landscape  

SMOKE LOADER DROPS WHIFFY RECON WI-FI SCANNING AND GEOLOCATION MALWARE 

Unleashing the Power of YARA: The Definitive Guide to Advanced Malware Hunting Beyond Hash-based Identifiers  

How the FBI nuked Qakbot malware from infected Windows PCs

Agent Tesla – Building an effective decryptor  

BadBazaar espionage tool targets Android users via trojanized Signal and Telegram apps   

Under the shellcode of the ‘Operation Duck Hunt’. Analysis of the FBI’s ducks killer  

CISA and International Partners Release Malware Analysis Report on Infamous Chisel Mobile Malware   

Decrypting Key Group Ransomware: Emerging Financially Motivated Cyber Crime Gang

SapphireStealer: Open-source information stealer enables credential and data theft      

Hacking

The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland’s Railway System  

CVE-2023-36844 And Friends: RCE In Juniper Devices  

Hackers Can Silently Grab Your IP Through Skype. Microsoft Is In No Rush to Fix It

MalDoc in PDF – Detection bypass by embedding a malicious Word file into a PDF file 

Hacktivists Breach Iranian Surveillance System         

A Brazilian phone spyware was hacked and victims’ devices ‘deleted’ from server

Contain Yourself: Staying Undetected Using the Windows Container Isolation Framework      

VMConnect supply chain attack continues, evidence points to North Korea  

Okta Warns of Social Engineering Attacks Targeting Super Administrator Privileges

Hacktivists Breach Iranian Surveillance System 

Intelligence and Information Warfare

Poland investigates cyber-attack on rail network  

Japan’s cyber security agency suffers months-long breach

Diving Deep into UNC4841 Operations Following Barracuda ESG Zero-Day Remediation (CVE-2023-2868)  

It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine     

UK and allies support Ukraine calling out Russia’s GRU for new malware campaign  

Cybersecurity