Earlier this month, security researchers identified PyPi malware that exfiltrated users’ credentials, apps’ cookies, and history, along with other sensitive data. The research data indicates that adversaries upload malicious packages to The Python Package Index (PyPI) – a vast repository of open-source Python packages. The goal is to dupe the users into downloading them by […]
Cyber Threat Hunting is a novel approach to Threat Detection which is aimed at finding cyber threats within an enterprise’s network before they do any harm. This includes deliberately looking for weak spots as well as any signs of ongoing attacks within a digital infrastructure. Threat Hunting is more complex than passive Threat Detection and […]
Cybersecurity experts from Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) have disrupted the infrastructure of a nefarious APT responsible for long-lasting cyberespionage activities aimed at targets within NATO countries. The group, dubbed SEABORGIUM, launched multiple phishing, data theft, and hack-and-leak campaigns to spy on defense contractors, NGOs, IGOs, think tanks, and educational institutions, allegedly on-behalf of russian […]
BlueSky ransomware represents a rapidly evolving malware family that involves sophisticated anti-analysis capabilities and constantly enhances its evasion techniques. BlueSky ransomware targets Windows hosts and relies on a multithreading technique for faster file encryption. Cybersecurity researchers attribute the revealed ransomware patterns to the adversary activity of the infamous Conti ransomware group, which has long been […]
High-profile ransomware attacks illustrate a growing trend in the cyber threat arena in 2021-2022, with the majority of ransomware affiliates engaged in various ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) programs. In May 2022, cybersecurity researchers noticed novel adversary campaigns deploying Cuba ransomware attributed to the malicious activity of a hacking group tracked as Tropical Scorpius. In these latest attacks, […]
With the outbreak of the global cyber war, the malicious activity of the Armageddon cyber-espionage group aka Gamaredon or UAC-0010 has been in the limelight in the cyber threat arena targeting Ukrainian state bodies. The hacking collective launched a series of phishing cyber-attacks, including campaigns in May spreading GammaLoad.PS1_v2 malware and in April 2022. On […]
Exploitation attempts of vulnerabilities found in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) are coming into the spotlight in the cyber threat arena, like in the case of CVE-2018-6882 used in a targeted cyber-espionage campaign against Ukrainian state bodies in mid-April 2022. Throughout July and August 2022, cybersecurity researchers were investigating a series of security breaches affecting ZCS […]
On August 10, 2022, Cisco officially confirmed its corporate network hack by the Yanluowang ransomware group earlier this year. The tech giant claims that the breach was reported internally on May 24 and was further investigated by Cisco Security Incident Response (CSIRT) team. This Cisco’s security incident made the headlines after the Yanluowang threat actors […]
Security flaws in VMware products that can be leveraged in exploit chain attacks have been in the limelight in the cyber threat arena since May 2022, when CISA issued an alert warning of known remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation vulnerabilities. On August 9, 2022, VMware patched another set of vulnerabilities that might be […]
The US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) expands its catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities by documenting several new actively exploited directory traversal flaws. The bugs in question are an RCE flaw tagged CVE-2022-34713 and a path traversal vulnerability filed under CVE-2022-30333. Microsoft has acknowledged that a CVE-2022-34713 vulnerability is a variant of the Follina-like DogWalk […]