Phishing

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Affairs

ESET researchers discovered two previously unknown backdoors named LunarWeb and LunarMail that were exploited to breach European ministry of foreign affairs. The two backdoors are designed to carry out a long-term compromise in the target network, data exfiltration, and maintaining control over compromised systems. The two backdoors compromised a European ministry of foreign affairs (MFA)…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: The Hacker News

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an intricate multi-stage attack that leverages invoice-themed phishing decoys to deliver a wide range of malware such as Venom RAT, Remcos RAT, XWorm, NanoCore RAT, and a stealer that targets crypto wallets. The email messages come with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file attachments that, when clicked, activate the infection sequence, Fortinet…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

The holy month of Ramadan is a period where Middle East-based companies step up cybersecurity with extra vigilance and outsourced support amid shortened working hours and increased e-commerce activity. The ninth month of the Muslim calendar is observed around the world as followers take the time to reflect and practice fasting, and cybersecurity teams often…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: The Hacker News

The threat actor known as TA558 has been attributed to a new massive phishing campaign that targets a wide range of sectors in Latin America with the goal of deploying Venom RAT. The attacks primarily singled out hotel, travel, trading, financial, manufacturing, industrial, and government verticals in Spain, Mexico, United States, Colombia, Portugal, Brazil, Dominican…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Black Kite, the leader in third-party cyber risk intelligence, today unveiled the industry’s first monthly ransomware dashboard, featuring crucial insights for security teams, media, analysts, and other industry leaders. The resource provides data, graphs, trends, and key insights from Black Kite’s threat intelligence team about the top ransomware groups, their victims, and attack patterns. Black…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: SecurityWeek

The account of Mandiant, which is part of Google Cloud, was renamed to ‘Phantom’ and its profile image and description were updated to appear affiliated with the legitimate Phantom cryptocurrency wallet. Messages posted on the hijacked account promoted a website hosted at claim-phntm.com, which claimed to distribute cryptocurrency tokens through an airdrop. In reality, the…

News

Issued by: DataBreach Today

The FBI and U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are urging critical infrastructure organizations to implement mitigation techniques to thwart a cybercriminal group known as Scattered Spider that targets major companies and their IT help desks. A joint advisory describes the hacking group, also known as Octo Tempest and UNC3944, as having expertise in social…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Affairs

Securonix researchers recently uncovered a phishing campaign using a Pilot-in-Command (PIC) Drone manual document as a lure to deliver a toolkit dubbed Merlin. The campaign, codenamed STARK#VORTEX by Securonix, targets Ukrainian military entities and CERT-UA attributed it to a threat actor tracked as UAC-0154. The MerlinAgent is an open-source C2 toolkit written in Go, it…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Attackers targeted a major US energy company with a phishing campaign that overall sent more than 1,000 emails armed with malicious QR codes aimed at stealing Microsoft credentials. The campaign, discovered by Cofense in May, used both PNG image attachments and redirect links associated with Microsoft Bing and well-known business applications — including Salesforce and…