Malware

24 May

SMBs and regional MSPs are increasingly targeted by state-sponsored APT groups

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks were once mainly a concern for large corporations in industries that presented cyberespionage interest. That’s no longer the case and over the past year in particular, the number of such state-sponsored attacks against small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) has increased significantly. Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint analyzed its telemetry data more than 200,000 SMB customers over the past year and saw a rise in phishing campaigns originating from APT groups, particularly those…

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24 May

New hyperactive phishing campaign uses SuperMailer templates: Report

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

SuperMailer, a legitimate email newsletter program, has been found abused by threat actors to conduct a high-volume credential harvesting campaign, according to network security firm Cofense. “The SuperMailer-generated emails have been reaching inboxes at an increasingly remarkable volume,” Brah Haas, cyber threat intelligence analyst at Cofense, said in a blog post. “Emails containing the unique SuperMailer string barely registered in January and February, but in the first half of May they accounted for over 5%…

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24 May

CISA and Partners Release Cybersecurity Advisory Guidance detailing PRC state-sponsored actors evading detection by “Living off the Land”

Attacks, Insights, Malware

Today, CISA joined the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and international partners in releasing a joint cybersecurity advisory highlighting recently discovered activities conducted by a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actor.  This advisory highlights how PRC cyber actors use techniques called “living off the land” to evade detection by using built-in networking administration tools to compromise networks and conduct malicious activity. This enables the cyber actor to…

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24 May

US sanctions four North Korean entities for global cyberattacks

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

The US Department of Treasury has imposed sanctions on four entities and one individual involved in illicit revenue generation and malicious online activities to generate revenue for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). The entities and individuals sanctioned are the Pyongyang University of Automation, the Technical Reconnaissance Bureau, the 110th Research Center cybersecurity unit, Chinyong Information Technology Cooperation Company, and North Korean national Kim Sang Man, the US Department of State said in…

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24 May

PyPI open-source code repository deals with manic malware maelstrom

Information, Malware

by Paul Ducklin Public source code repositories, from Sourceforge to GitHub, from the Linux Kernel Archives to ReactOS.org, from PHP Packagist to the Python Package Index, better known as PyPI, are a fantastic source (sorry!) of free operating systems, applications, programming libraries, and developers’ toolkits that have done computer science and software engineering a world of good. Most software projects need “helper” code that isn’t a fundamental part of the problem that the project itself…

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24 May

CyberArk’s enterprise browser promises zero-trust support, policy management

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

CyberArk has announced plans to launch an enterprise browser, dubbed CyberArk Secure Browser, at the end of 2023 as part of its CyberArk Identity Security Platform. The identity security vendor decided to create a new enterprise browser based on trends impacting hybrid work environments and its own research, which found an increase in post-multifactor authentication (MFA) attacks targeting session cookies. “Developing an enterprise browser — with an identity-first, security-first approach — was a natural progression…

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24 May

Credential harvesting tool Legion targets additional cloud services

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

A commercial malware tool called Legion that hackers deploy on compromised web servers has recently been updated to extract credentials for additional cloud services to authenticate over SSH. The main goal of this Python-based script is to harvest credentials stored in configuration files for email providers, cloud service providers, server management systems, databases, and payment systems. These hijacked resources enable the attackers to launch email and SMS spam campaigns. “This recent update demonstrates a widening…

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24 May

Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan and lessons learned from the infamous 2016 Uber breach

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Like most CSOs, Joe Sullivan was drawn to the role to help prevent cybercrimes. His role as CSO of Uber was something of a shift from his previous job prosecuting cybercriminals as an assistant US attorney, but closer to the tip of the cybersecurity spear. As a top-level professional in the business of defending against the bad guys, it was unexpected and not a little ironic that he would find himself on the other side…

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23 May

Axiado releases new security processors for servers and network appliances

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Security processor provider Axiado has announced the availability of two new trusted compute units (TCUs) to help detect ransomware and other cyberattacks on servers and infrastructure elements in cloud data centers, 5G networks, and network switches. Dubbed AX3000 and AX2000, these TCUs are AI-powered hardware security platform solutions that, the company says, integrate all security functions within a single system-on-chip (SoC) module. “Products such as Axiado’s TCU are important developments in the market, as they…

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23 May

Teleport releases Teleport 13 with automatic vulnerability patching, enhanced DevOps security

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Infrastructure access management company Teleport has announced the release of Teleport 13, the latest version of its Teleport Access Platform. Teleport 13 features scanning and automatic patching of Teleport vulnerabilities to enhance security and reduce operational overhead for DevOps teams responsible for securing cloud infrastructure, the firm said. The solution aims to address the targeting of user credentials and other forms of secrets by attackers and is ideal for users that adopt the Teleport Open…

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