While cybersecurity professionals are working hard to augment SOC operations with more scalable and innovative solutions, threat actors are also putting an effort not to be left to bring up the rear in this everlasting security race. Security researchers detect the surge in the numbers of malware-as-a-service (MaaS) offers, with its operators coming with new […]
Since April 2022 researchers are observing a series of targeted cyber-attacks aimed specifically at Japanese organizations. The campaign, dubbed Operation RestyLink, is believed to be active since at least March 2022, with related malicious activity traced back to October 2021. The exact attribution is currently unclear, but the attack kill chain and its highly-targeted nature […]
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Lazarus APT has become a frequent guest of our blog posts. According to the recent security reports, North Korean State-Sponsored APT acts quickly, jeopardizing financial and critical infrastructures, blockchain technology-oriented companies, and the cryptocurrency sector. The U.S. government organizations released details about malware-laced cryptocurrency applications under the umbrella term “TraderTraitor”, distributed via a phishing campaign […]
Hackers have infiltrated Google search results, driving traffic to a bogus website mimicking legitimate Microsoft pages with Windows OS updates. To be more precise, adversaries are using the “windows11-upgrade11[.]com” domain to host and spread information stealer malware disguised as a Windows 11 updates pack. Tricked users download fake updates, in reality getting an ISO file […]
A notorious APT group, Lazarus, sponsored by North Korea’s government, expands its attack surface, targeting entities in the chemical sector along with IT organizations, mostly in South Korea. Researchers believe that the latest campaign is a part of Lazarus’ Operation Dream Job plans, detected in August 2020. Lazarus Activity Detection SOC Prime released a batch […]
Security researchers report alarming activity associated with a tailor-made malware dubbed Denonia to target Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda environments. The malware is written in the Go language. Once in the system, it is used to download, install, and execute the XMRig cryptomining files for Monero cryptocurrency mining. Detect Denonia Malware AWS Lambda malware, aka […]
A sudden surge in the activity of IcedID email hijacking was identified by security researchers. IcedID, a.k.a. BokBot has been operating since 2017. A gradual evolution has led this malware from being a regular banking trojan to a sophisticated payload that hijacks ongoing email conversations and injects malicious code through a network of compromised Microsoft […]
On February 15, 2022, Proofpoint researchers warned about the TA2541 hacker group. A criminal cluster dubbed TA2541 has been active since 2017 (yet, managing to stay rather low-key) and is reported to consistently spread remote access trojans (RATs), enabling adversaries to obtain sensitive data from the breached networks and devices, or even get control of […]