malware

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Researchers analyzing data associated with a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN technology have identified a sophisticated new backdoor specifically designed to run on Fortinet’s FortiGate firewalls. The malware appears to be the work of a China-based threat actor engaged in cyber-espionage operations targeting government organizations and those working with these organizations. It…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: CSO Online

Attackers could start abusing GitHub Codespaces, a new service that allows developers to create and test applications inside development containers running on GitHub’s servers. Developers can make their applications accessible via public GitHub URLs for preview by others, a functionality that can be abused to distribute malware payloads in a stealthy way. “If the application…

Software Security

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Cybercriminals have lost little time in converting the artificial intelligence capabilities of ChatGPT to malicious purposes by using it to generate malware scripts. Security researchers at Check Point found members of the low-level hacking community Breach Forums posting over the past few weeks the results of interactions with the OpenAI-developed tool. They include a machine-learning…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

A hacking group — suspected to be the Russia-linked Turla Team — reregistered at least three old domains associated with the decade-old Andromeda malware, allowing the group to distribute its own reconnaissance and surveillance tools to Ukrainian targets. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant stated in a Thursday advisory that Turla Team APT, also known by Mandiant’s designation…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

More information has become available on “PurpleUrchin,” a malicious campaign in which a threat group called Automated Libra is using DevOps and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices to mine cryptocurrency on cloud platforms using free trial accounts. The campaign began in August 2019 and has mainly targeted platforms such as GitHub, Heroku, and ToggleBox. Security…

Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

An unknown attacker slipped a malicious binary into the PyTorch machine learning project by registering a malicious project with the Python Package Index (PyPI), infecting users’ machines if they downloaded a nightly build between Dec. 25 and Dec. 30. The PyTorch Foundation stated in an advisory on Dec. 31 that the effort was a dependency…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

This year, ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) groups like BlackCat, Hive, and RansomExx have developed versions of their ransomware in Rust, a cross-platform language that makes it easier to tailor malware to different operating systems like Windows and Linux. In this blog entry, we shed light on Agenda (also known as Qilin), another ransomware group that has started…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Targeting Windows computers, these are typical ransomware families that encrypt victim files and demand a ransom payment in exchange for a decryption key. This new ransomware has been used in an increasing number of attacks. Aerst was seen appending to encrypted files the ‘.aerst’ extension and displaying a popup window containing the attacker’s email address,…