The Sandman APT’s Secret Link to the Keyplug Backdoor in China
Researchers have uncovered intriguing parallels between the elusive advanced persistent threat (APT) known as Sandman and a threat cluster based in China, notorious for deploying the KEYPLUG backdoor. The collaborative report from SentinelOne, PwC, and the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team reveals…
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iPhone Users Beware: Sneaky Attack Utilizing a Fake Lockdown Mode
Security experts have recently uncovered a sophisticated “post-exploitation tampering technique” that malicious actors can exploit. This technique allows them to execute covert attacks by visually deceiving iPhone users into thinking their device is in Lockdown Mode, even when…
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BLUFFS Bluetooth Attack is Putting Devices at Risk
Recent investigations have brought to light a series of sophisticated attacks posing a significant threat to the forward secrecy and future secrecy guarantees of Bluetooth Classic. These exploits specifically create scenarios for adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks between already connected peer…
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Google’s New Defense Against Spam and Malicious Emails
With the intention of assisting in the identification of potentially hazardous information in Gmail, such as spam and phishing emails, Google has introduced a new multilingual text vectorizer that goes by the name RETVec (which is an abbreviation for Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer).…
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North Korea’s Lazarus Group has made $3 billion out of cryptocurrency hacks.
Since at least 2017, threat actors from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been focusing on the cryptocurrency sector as a way to generate revenue and evade sanctions. In a report shared with The Hacker News, cybersecurity firm Recorded Future stated that “the…
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The Methods Cybercriminals Use to Get Your Users’ Passwords and Then Sell Them
The value of account credentials has increased in the cybercrime market since they are a common initial access vector. Consequently, your company’s entire network could be at risk from just one pair of compromised credentials. Data breaches that happened between November 2021 and October 2022…
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Uncovering a Passive Approach to Extracting Private RSA Keys from SSH Tunnels
A recent study has shed light on the potential for passive network attackers to obtain Private RSA Keys from SSH Tunnels. This is achieved by capitalizing on the identification of inherent computational issues that surface during the connection establishment process. [FREE E-BOOK] The Definite…
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Emails with a shipping theme are being used to spread a new WailingCrab malware loader.
Cybercriminals are employing email messages centred around delivery and shipping to spread a newly identified and sophisticated malware loader named WailingCrab. “The malware itself is split into multiple components, including a loader, injector, downloader, and backdoor,” stated…
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North Korean hackers pose as recruiters and job seekers.
Threat actors from North Korea have been linked to two campaigns. In these instances, they distribute malware and engage in unauthorized job applications with companies in the United States and other countries by pretending to be recruiters and job seekers. [FREE E-BOOK] The Definite Blueprint for…
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NetSupport RAT targets both the business and government sectors
A remote access trojan, known as NetSupport RAT, is actively being used by threat actors to launch attacks on organizations across the education, government, and business services sectors. “The delivery mechanisms for the NetSupport RAT encompass fraudulent updates, drive-by downloads,…
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