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Experts Find Shared Codebase Linking Morpheus and HellCat Ransomware Payloads

Experts Find Shared Codebase Linking Morpheus and HellCat Ransomware Payloads

Jan 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Data Breach An analysis of HellCat and Morpheus ransomware operations has revealed that affiliates associated with the respective cybercrime entities are using identical code for their ransomware payloads. The… 

SonicWall Urges Immediate Patch for Critical CVE-2025-23006 Flaw Amid Likely Exploitation

SonicWall Urges Immediate Patch for Critical CVE-2025-23006 Flaw Amid Likely Exploitation

Jan 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security SonicWall is alerting customers of a critical security flaw impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 Series appliances that it said has been likely exploited in the wild… 

QakBot-Linked BC Malware Adds Enhanced Remote Access and Data Gathering Features

QakBot-Linked BC Malware Adds Enhanced Remote Access and Data Gathering Features

Jan 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new BackConnect (BC) malware that has been developed by threat actors linked to the infamous QakBot loader. “BackConnect is a common… 

Cisco Fixes Critical Privilege Escalation Flaw in Meeting Management (CVSS 9.9)

Cisco Fixes Critical Privilege Escalation Flaw in Meeting Management (CVSS 9.9)

Jan 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Vulnerability Cisco has released software updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Meeting Management that could permit a remote, authenticated attacker to gain administrator privileges on susceptible instances.… 

TRIPLESTRENGTH Hits Cloud for Cryptojacking, On-Premises Systems for Ransomware

TRIPLESTRENGTH Hits Cloud for Cryptojacking, On-Premises Systems for Ransomware

Jan 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Cryptojacking Google on Wednesday shed light on a financially motivated threat actor named TRIPLESTRENGTH for its opportunistic targeting of cloud environments for cryptojacking and on-premise ransomware attacks. “This actor… 

Trump Terminates DHS Advisory Committee Memberships, Disrupting Cybersecurity Review

Trump Terminates DHS Advisory Committee Memberships, Disrupting Cybersecurity Review

Jan 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / National Security The new Trump administration has terminated all memberships of advisory committees that report to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “In alignment with the Department of Homeland Security’s… 

Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in cnPilot Routers to Deploy AIRASHI DDoS Botnet

Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in cnPilot Routers to Deploy AIRASHI DDoS Botnet

Threat actors are exploiting an unspecified zero-day vulnerability in Cambium Networks cnPilot routers to deploy a variant of the AISURU botnet called AIRASHI to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. According to QiAnXin XLab, the…