Hot on the heels of the joint cybersecurity advisory warning defenders of the Iran-backed Pioneer Kitten’s collaboration with multiple ransomware groups, another spike in ransomware activity is causing a stir in the cyber threat landscape. The FBI, CISA, and partners recently issued a joint alert covering the increased offensive activity of the RansomHub RaaS operators, […]
On August 28, 2024, a joint advisory was released by the FBI, the Department of Defense, and CISA, alerting cybersecurity professionals about a surge in operations by Iran-linked adversaries. These actors are increasingly collaborating with ransomware gangs to target education, finance, healthcare, state bodies, and defense industry sectors. Known as Pioneer Kitten, state-sponsored hacking collective […]
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 vulnerability management lifecycle is an essential process for defending against the escalating number of cyber threats in our modern digital era. In 2023 alone, over 30,000 new vulnerabilities were spotted, with a 42% increase observed in 2024, underscoring the urgent need for effective coping strategies. As adversaries, including sophisticated state-sponsored groups like APT40, rapidly […]
Following Microsoft’s recent Patch Tuesday update, which addressed the CVE-2024-38112 vulnerability, researchers uncovered a sophisticated campaign by the Void Banshee APT. This campaign exploits a security gap in the Microsoft MHTML browser engine through zero-day attacks to deploy the Atlantida stealer on victims’ devices. Detecting CVE-2024-38113 Exploitation by Void Banshee In the first half of […]
The latest advisory issued by law enforcement agencies within Australia, the U.S., Canada, Germany, the U.K., New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan, warns of the growing threat posed by APT40 operated on behalf of Beijing’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). Specifically, the advisory details the activities of the People’s Republic of China state-sponsored group able […]
The cyber threat landscape in June is heating up, largely due to the disclosure of new vulnerabilities, such as CVE-2024-4577 and CVE-2024-29849. Researchers have identified a novel critical improper authentication vulnerability in Progress MOVEit Transfer tracked as CVE-2024-5806, which has already been under active exploitation in the wild a couple of hours after its discovery. […]
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new code execution technique that employs specially crafted MSC files and a Windows XSS flaw. The newly uncovered infection technique, dubbed GrimResource, allows attackers to perform code execution in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). Defenders discovered a sample using GrimResource that was recently uploaded to VirusTotal in early June 2024, indicating […]
In Q1 2024, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups from China, North Korea, Iran, and russia demonstrated significantly enhanced and innovative offensive capabilities to proceed with sophisticated cyber-espionage campaigns. This surge in activity has posed considerable challenges to the global cybersecurity landscape. Recently, security experts revealed the activity of the China-linked Velvet Ant group infiltrating F5 […]
The TellYouThePass ransomware operators have been spotted behind a novel adversary campaign leveraging the PHP-CGI vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-4577. Adversaries weaponize the flaw to upload web shells and distribute TellYouThePass ransomware on compromised instances. Detect TellYouThePass Ransomware Campaign In light of the newly uncovered PHP-CGI bug being swiftly weaponized for in-the-wild attacks, facilitating the distribution […]