Jul 17, 2024The Hacker NewsInsider Threats / Cybersecurity Attacks on your network are often meticulously planned operations launched by sophisticated threats. Sometimes your technical fortifications provide a formidable challenge, and the attack requires assistance from…
The financially motivated threat actor known as FIN7 has been observed using multiple pseudonyms across several underground forums to likely advertise a tool known to be used by ransomware groups like Black Basta. “AvNeutralizer (aka…
Jul 17, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence A China-linked threat actor called APT17 has been observed targeting Italian companies and government entities using a variant of a known malware referred to as 9002 RAT. The…
Jul 17, 2024NewsroomCybercrime / Ransomware The infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider has incorporated ransomware strains such as RansomHub and Qilin into its arsenal, Microsoft has revealed. Scattered Spider is the designation given to…
Jul 17, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Data Security Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Apache HugeGraph-Server that could lead to remote code execution attacks. Tracked as CVE-2024-27348 (CVSS score: 9.8), the…
Jul 16, 2024NewsroomMobile Security / Online Security Details have emerged about a “massive ad fraud operation” that leverages hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store to perform a host of nefarious activities. The campaign…
Identity-based threats on SaaS applications are a growing concern among security professionals, although few have the capabilities to detect and respond to them. According to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), 90% of…
Jul 16, 2024NewsroomOpen Source / Software Supply Chain Cybersecurity researchers have identified two malicious packages on the npm package registry that concealed backdoor code to execute malicious commands sent from a remote server. The packages…
The Iranian nation-state actor known as MuddyWater has been observed using a never-before-seen backdoor as part of a recent attack campaign, shifting away from its well-known tactic of deploying legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM)…
Jul 16, 2024NewsroomData Security / Vulnerability An advanced persistent threat (APT) group called Void Banshee has been observed exploiting a recently disclosed security flaw in the Microsoft MHTML browser engine as a zero-day to deliver…