In the first half of 2024, North Korea-affiliated adversaries have significantly ramped up their activities, broadening both their malicious toolsets and range of targets. Security experts have observed a notable uptick in supply-chain attacks and trojanized software installers, underscoring a growing trend among North Korean state-sponsored groups. Recently, security professionals discovered a brand new malware […]
The Vermin hacking collective, also tracked as UAC-0020, resurfaces, targeting Ukraine using a novel offensive tool dubbed FIRMACHAGENT. In the latest attack, adversaries leverage the phishing attack vector to spread emails with the lure subject related to the prisoners of war at the Kursk front. UAC-0020 aka Vermin Attack Analysis Using FIRMACHAGENT On August 19, 2024, […]
A new critical vulnerability in Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) instances comes into the spotlight. Tracked as CVE-2024-7593, the critical authentication bypass vulnerability enables remote attackers to create rogue admin accounts. The public availability of the PoC exploit code increases the risk of CVE-2024-7593 exploitation in real-world attacks. Detect CVE-2024-7593 Exploitation Attempts In 2023, over […]
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Defenders have discovered a novel APT group dubbed Actor240524, which applies an advanced adversary toolkit to evade detection and gain persistence. At the turn of July 2024, adversaries performed a spear-phishing campaign against diplomats from Azerbaijan and Israel. Attackers leveraged a malicious Word document featuring content in Azerbaijani and masquerading as official documentation designed to […]
The ever-growing volumes of ransomware attacks, the increased number of financially motivated hacking collectives, and soaring global ransomware damage costs are shaking up the modern cyber threat arena. The FBI and CISA have recently issued a novel alert notifying defenders of the emergence of the BlackSuit ransomware, the evolution of Royal ransomware enriched with enhanced […]
Following in-the-wild attacks exploiting CVE-2024-37085 by diverse ransomware gangs, defenders encounter a new variant of the nefarious Proton ransomware family dubbed Zola. Zola strain displays sophisticated capabilities as a result of the ransomware family’s multiple iterations and upgrades, incorporating privilege escalation, disk overwriting functionality, and a kill switch that terminates processes if a Persian keyboard […]
The nefarious russian state-sponsored APT28 hacking collective, also known as Fighting Ursa, is coming into the spotlight. Since early spring 2024, adversaries have been targeting diplomats in a long-term offensive campaign, leveraging a car for sale as a phishing lure to distribute HeadLace malware. Detect Fighting Ursa aka APT28 Attacks Spreading HeadLace Malware The continuously […]
A couple of weeks after the disclosure of CVE-2024-38112, a critical vulnerability exploited by the Void Banshee group to deploy the Atlantida stealer, another security flaw came into the spotlight. Multiple ransomware groups have weaponized a recently patched vulnerability in VMware ESXi hypervisors tracked as CVE-2024-37085 to gain elevated privileges and distribute file-encrypting malicious samples. […]
The FBI, CISA, and leading cybersecurity authorities have issued a warning over growing North Korean cyber-espionage operations linked to the nation-backed hacking group tracked as Andariel. The group’s cyber-espionage activity involves the collection of critical data and intellectual property, thereby advancing the regime’s military and nuclear objectives and aspirations. Detecting Andariel Attacks Described in CISA […]