Since russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the infamous Trident Ursa russia-affiliated hacking group also tracked as Armageddon APT aka Gamaredon or UAC-0010 has been launching its offensive operations targeting Ukraine and its allies. For over ten months, the hacking collective has performed a series of phishing cyber attacks covered in the corresponding […]
Phishing attacks on Ukrainian state bodies spreading diverse malware strains have not been a rarity throughout 2022. Hard on the heels of a phishing cyber attack against Ukraine distributing DolphinCape malware, another phishing campaign is causing a stir in the cyber threat arena. On December 18, 2022, CERT-UA researchers issued the latest alert tracked as […]
A notorious North Korea-backed APT group, Lazarus, continuously broadens its attack surface, leveraging fraudulent cryptocurrency apps to distribute the AppleJeus malware. In this latest adversary campaign, Lazarus hackers use fake cryptocurrency apps dubbed BloxHolder to drop AppleJeus malware, gain initial access to networks, and steal crypto assets. During the last four years, Lazarus APT group […]
Security experts from Qualys’ Threat Research Unit warn of a novel vulnerability (CVE-2022-3328) in Snapd, a popular software management tool for Linux, that might be exploited for local privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution. The security issue in the spotlight can be chained with older vulnerabilities revealed in multipathd (CVE-2022-41973 & CVE-2022-41974) to escalate privileges […]
Cybersecurity researchers have observed a burst of the new malicious activity of the Emotet botnet, which has been under the radar for almost half a year. The infamous Trojan attributed to the malicious activity of the TA542 hacking group came back in November 2022, expanding its dominance and impact in the email threat landscape. In […]
MITRE ATT&CK is a globally-accessible knowledge base leveraged by all cyber defenders no matter their role in cybersecurity and the technology stack in use. Acting as a periodic table, the MITRE ATT&CK framework enables cybersecurity experts to profile, identify, and compare threat actors, while setting priorities for threat detection goals. Leveraging MITRE ATT&CK, the global […]
Ransomware is a number one threat posing a significant menace to security defenders worldwide, with the attack trend constantly growing throughout 2021-2022. Recently, security experts revealed a massive QakBot malware campaign increasingly targeting U.S.-based vendors to deliver Black Basta ransomware. During the last decade of November 2022, at least 10 businesses in the United States […]
Security experts warn of the notorious stealthy malware dubbed BatLoader, which has been increasingly infecting instances worldwide over the last few months. The notorious threat acts as a malware downloader dropping a variety of malicious payloads on the victims’ systems. During the latest campaigns, BatLoader has been observed delivering banking Trojans, ransomware samples, information stealers, […]
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Since the outbreak of the global cyber war, cyber attacks against Ukraine and its allies leveraging info-stealers and malicious payloads have been causing a stir in the cyber threat arena. In the latest cyber attack on the Ukrainian organization, threat actors have applied a diverse offensive toolkit, including the Vidar info-stealer and the notorious Cobalt […]