Hundreds of companies have been recently exposed to a massive supply chain attack on the software company Kaseya. A zero-day bug in Kaseya’s VSA software was nefariously leveraged by the REvil gang to infect 30 managed service providers (MSPs) and multiple their customers with ransomware. Although the vendor has been aware of the vulnerability since […]
A notorious remote code execution (RCE) bug in Windows Print Spooler allows attackers to achieve full system compromise on the unpatched instances. The vulnerability, dubbed PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-1675), was initially rated as a low-severity issue that enables privilege escalation to admin on the targeted hosts. However, after deep-dive research by experts who discovered the potential for […]
Experts warn about an unusual approach to infect targets with BazarLoader — a notorious strain frequently used to deliver ransomware. The hacker collective, dubbed BazarCall, abuses call center functionality to trick victims into downloading the malicious payload. The campaign has been active since at least February 2021, continuously adding new tricks to increase its notoriety. […]
The cybersecurity community is facing a crisis caused by the escalating threat of high-profile ransomware attacks. Advancing the trend of 2020, ransomware continues to be the number one problem in 2021, with the increasing sophistication of intrusions and a constantly growing number of malicious affiliates. Big enterprises remain to be the primary target. Yet, the […]
A major cybersecurity company Rapid7 announced that a limited number of its source code repositories were exposed in course of the Codecov supply chain attack. According to the official statement, the compromised repos contained internal credentials and alert-related data for its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) clients. Codecov Supply Chain Attack On April 15, 2021, […]
Australian software producer Click Studios has fallen victim to a security breach that resulted in a supply-chain attack. In April 2020, adversaries successfully compromised the upgrade mechanism of Click Studios’ Passwordstate enterprise password management app to deliver Moserpass malware onto the users’ devices. The number of affected customers is currently unknown, however, the vendor claims […]
Check Point Research’s Global Threat Index for March 2021 reveals that IcedID banking Trojan operators are entering the big game. Last month IcedID was included in the Index for the first time, at once taking second place right after the infamous Dridex. A surge in infections and notoriety is explained by the innovative delivery methods […]
Security researchers from FortiGuard Labs have uncovered a new FormBook variant being delivered in a massive phishing campaign. Particularly, adversaries target users with malware-laced Microsoft PowerPoint documents disguised as a follow-up to the recent purchase order. Those who fell for the bait of scammers got their devices infected with a notorious data-stealing malware. New FormBook […]
Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a long-lasting cyber espionage operation launched by a Chinese nation-backed actor to target government and military institutions across Vietnam. The hacker group, known as Cycldek, APT27, GoblinPanda, and LuckyMouse, relied on a brand-new and highly evasive remote access Trojan to reach its malicious goal. The RAT, called FoundCore, […]
Experts from ESET have uncovered a new malicious sample leveraged by Lazarus APT to target an unnamed South African freight company. The malware, dubbed Vyveva, obtains impressive backdoor capabilities, which are used by the nation-backed actor for reconnaissance and cyber-espionage. Vyveva Backdoor Overview Vyveva is a custom threat applied by the North Korean state-sponsored group […]