Over 60,000 Android Apps Affected In A Hidden Malware Campaign

Bitdefender has identified a hidden malware campaign that exists undetected on mobile devices globally. The malware in question has been in existence for over six months. The hacking campaign launched by threat actors has been designed to install adwar…

[SANS ISC] Undetected PowerShell Backdoor Disguised as a Profile File

Yesterday, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Undetected PowerShell Backdoor Disguised as a Profile File“: PowerShell remains an excellent way to compromise computers. Many PowerShell scripts found in the wild are usually obfuscated. Most of the time, this helps to have the script detected by fewer antivirus vendors. Yesterday,

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Fake Android Apps Ran Adware Campaign For Months

Researchers caught a sneaky adware campaign targeting Android users for months. This campaign used several…
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Minecraft Community on High Alert as Malware Infects Popular Mods

By Waqas
Dubbed Fracturizer, researchers delving into the malware’s GitHub repository have classified this malware as “extraordinarily perilous.
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Replace Barracuda ESG appliances, company urges

Barracuda Networks is urging customers running phyisical Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances to replace them immediately, “regardless of patch version level.” Vulnerability identification and disclosure Barracuda has identified a critic…

Japanese Pharmaceutical giant Eisai hit by a ransomware attack

This week, the Japanese pharmaceutical giant Eisai has taken its systems offline in response to a ransomware attack. Eisai is a Japanese pharmaceutical company with about 10,000 employees and more than $5 billion in revenue. The company this week was forced to take certain systems offline in response to a cyber attack In response to the ransomware […]

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Clop ransomware gang was testing MOVEit Transfer bug since 2021

Researchers discovered that the Clop ransomware gang was looking for a zero-day exploit in the MOVEit Transfer since 2021. Kroll security experts discovered that the Clop ransomware gang was looking for a zero-day exploit in the MOVEit Transfer since 2021. Kroll investigated the exploitation attempts for the MOVEit Transfer vulnerability and discovered that Clop threat […]

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Operation Triangulation: Zero-Click iPhone Malware

Kaspersky is reporting a zero-click iOS exploit in the wild:

Mobile device backups contain a partial copy of the filesystem, including some of the user data and service databases. The timestamps of the files, folders and the database records allow to roughly reconstruct the events happening to the device. The mvt-ios utility produces a sorted timeline of events into a file called “timeline.csv,” similar to a super-timeline used by conventional digital forensic tools.

Using this timeline, we were able to identify specific artifacts that indicate the compromise. This allowed to move the research forward, and to reconstruct the general infection sequence:…

Stealth Soldier backdoor used is targeted espionage attacks in Libya

Researchers detected a cyberespionage campaign in Libya that employs a new custom, modular backdoor dubbed Stealth Soldier. Experts at the Check Point Research team uncovered a series of highly-targeted espionage attacks in Libya that employ a new custom modular backdoor dubbed Stealth Soldier. Stealth Soldier is surveillance software that allows operators to spy on the victims […]

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Factors influencing IT security spending

Security executives are overwhelmingly craving more AI solutions in 2023 to help them battle the growing cybersecurity threat landscape, according to Netrix Global. 22% of respondents said that they would like to see more AI used in cybersecurity this …