Hot on the heels of the massive phishing attacks launched by UAC-0006 at the beginning of May 2023, CERT-UA warns cyber defenders of a new wave of cyber attacks resulting in SmokeLoader infections. The latest investigation indicates that adversaries increasingly spread phishing emails with financial subject lures and use ZIP/RAR attachments to drop malicious samples […]
Since the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine, cyber defenders have identified the growing volumes of cyber-espionage campaigns aimed at collecting intelligence from the Ukrainian state bodies. On May 22, 2023, CERT-UA researchers issued a new alert warning the global cyber defender community of an ongoing cyber-espionage campaign targeting the information and communication system […]
With the constantly changing cyber threat landscape and the increasing sophistication of the adversary toolkit, information exchange between cybersecurity experts is of paramount value. On January 25 and 26, 2023, the global cyber defender community welcomed the sixth JSAC2023 conference for security analysts aimed to boost their expertise in the field. This annual cybersecurity event […]
The financially-motivated hacking collective tracked as UAC-0006 comes back to the cyber threat arena exploiting the phishing attack vector and distributing the SmokeLoader malware. According to the latest CERT-UA cybersecurity alert, threat actors massively distribute phishing emails exploiting the compromised accounts with the financially related email subject and using a malicious ZIP attachment to deploy […]
The infamous russian nation-backed hacking collective tracked as APT28 or UAC-0001, which has a history of targeted attacks against Ukrainian government agencies, reemerges in the cyber threat arena. The latest CERT-UA#6562 alert confirms that over April 2023, the hacking collective has been leveraging the phishing attack vector to massively distribute spoofed emails among Ukrainian state […]
With a growing number of zero-day flaws affecting widely used software products, proactive detection of vulnerability exploitation has been among the most prevalent security use cases since 2021. Microsoft has recently issued a series of security updates relevant to critical flaws affecting its products, including a patch for a zero-day actively exploited in the wild […]
With a 250% surge of cyber attacks against Ukraine in 2022 and over 2,000 of them launched by russia-affiliated threat actors since the outbreak of the full-fledged war, cyber defenders are looking for ways to help Ukraine and its allies boost their cyber resilience. On April 3, 2023, CERT-UA issued a new alert covering the […]
Cybersecurity experts have uncovered an ongoing adversary campaign exploiting 3CXDesktopApp, a software application for business communication used by 12 million customers worldwide. According to the reports, threat actors gain initial access to the compromised environment, deploy payloads, and then attempt to drop info-stealing malware capable of hijacking login credentials at the final attack stage. Detecting […]
The massive cyber incident at Ferrari that compromised some of the company customersā personal data has recently hit the headlines. Ferrari, the Italian industry-leading car manufacturer, covered the companyās data breach after threat actors that gained access to part of the organizationās IT infrastructure demanded a ransom not to leak the stolen data. Ferrari uncovered […]
Security heads-up for cyber defenders! Microsoft has recently fixed a critical elevation of privilege vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) affecting Microsoft Outlook for Windows that allows adversaries to dump hash passwords from targeted instances. Notably, the flaw has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day since April 2022, being utilized in cyber-attacks against the government, military, and […]