“These attacks use a specific tactic: targeting the victim companies’ support agents via chat applications – in particular, the Comm100 and LiveHelp100 apps,” ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

“In this campaign, the SideWinder advanced persistent threat (APT) group used a server-based polymorphism technique to deliver the next stage payload,” the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team said in a technical report published Monday.

“The PaperCut exploitation activity by Mint Sandstorm appears opportunistic, affecting organizations across sectors and geographies,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said.

The suspected Pakistan-aligned threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed leveraging themes related to the Indian military research organization as part of an ongoing phishing campaign.

North Korean hacking group Kimsuky is distributing a new version of its reconnaissance malware called ReconShark. The cyberespionage campaign involves sending emails containing a link to a password-protected doc hosted on Microsoft OneDrive. The malwar…

CERT-UA confirmed the discovery of a malicious script dubbed RoarBat that is most probably being used by the Russian threat group Sandworm to wipe off data from Ukrainian state networks. The script uses the WinRaR application for archiving and compress…

Social media giant Meta took down hundreds of fake Facebook and Instagram accounts used by South Asia advanced persistent threat groups to glean sensitive information and coax users into installing malware.

ScarCruft, a North Korean threat group, has been attempting to deliver the RokRAT malware since July 2022 using oversized LNK files. The malware is capable of targeting macOS (CloudMensis) and Android (RambleOn). The malware variants are equipped to ca…

After more than six months of no activity, Chinese state-sponsored threat group Earth Longzhi is back with new tricks up its sleeves in a new series of attacks. The attackers aim at IIS and Microsoft Exchange servers exposed to the internet to get acce…