Last week, VMware released an advisory urging users to patch eight vulnerabilities of various severity levels. Unpatched bugs enable the compromise of the following VMware products: VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager (vIDM), vRealize Automation (vRA), Cloud Foundation, and Suite Lifecycle Manager. The easiest prey on the hit list with the CVSS score of 9.8 […]
A new info-stealer malware follows in the footsteps of Mars Stealer and BlackGuard. The malware is available for $125 per month or $1,000 for a lifetime subscription. On darknet markets, META Stealer is advertised as an upgrade of RedLine Stealer, which was first revealed in 2020. META Information Stealer Detection To protect your company infrastructure […]
A new tricky remote access tool dubbed Borat RAT was found by cybersecurity researchers. Just like the name suggests, it is a crazy mix of things that is hard to wrap your head around. Borat Trojan is a collection of malware modules coming with a builder and server certificate which includes more than 10 malicious […]
Ongoing malware distribution campaigns spread AsyncRAT, including the 3LOSH crypter across public repositories. Recent cybersecurity research analyzes the latest version of 3LOSH that is being used by adversaries to evade detection on devices in corporate environments. Besides AsyncRAT, a number of other commodity malware strains can be distributed by the same operator. The purpose of […]
In March 2022, several novel vulnerabilities in the Java Spring framework were disclosed. One of these flaws affects a component in Spring Core, enabling adversaries to drop a webshell, granting Remote Command Execution (RCE). As of April 5, 2022, the SpringShell vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-22965 is now confirmed to be of critical severity. CVE-2022-22965 Detection […]
Fire Chili is a novel strain of malware that has been leveraged by a Chinese APT group Deep Panda exploiting Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware Horizon servers. The primary focus of adversaries is cyber espionage. Targeted organizations include financial institutions, academic, travel, and cosmetics industries. Log4Shell is associated with a high-severity CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability in the Log4j […]
When spring comes, bugs bloom. A novel, highly severe flaw in the Spring Cloud Function came on the radar on March 29, 2022. An easy to exploit vulnerability affects the Spring Core module – a framework used in Java applications, and requires JDK9+. If exploited, this Spring Core vulnerability enables hackers to execute remote code […]
A new unusual malware delivery method has been observed since February 2022. The newest research shows evidence of a resurgence of a Vidar information stealer that has been operating since at least 2018. The latest Vidar campaign is plainly straightforward except for one special trick. This time, threat actors tend to hide their payload within […]
A new burst of Iranian state-sponsored APT35 attacks has been observed by researchers over the past few months. A new study shows that APT35 (a.k.a. TA453, COBALT ILLUSION, Charming Kitten, ITG18, Phosphorus, Newscaster) has been increasingly exploiting Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities for initial access and leveraging quite a bunch of different attack vectors once they […]
The most recent hacking campaign by North Korean APT Kimsuky was launched in late January 2022 and is still ongoing. This time, Kimsuky hackers are armed with commodity open-source remote access tools (RATs) installed with the tailored malware Gold Dragon. Detect Gold Dragon Backdoor To identify that your system was compromised with the Gold Dragon […]