New “Guerilla” Malware Infected Over 9 Million Android-based Devices

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The Lemon Group, a prominent cybercrime organization, has planted the ‘Guerilla’ malware on nearly 9 million Android devices, enabling them to execute various malicious activities.  While among all the illicit activities here, we have mentioned the key ones:- Intercepting SMS …

IBM Acquired Cloud Data Protection Company Polar Security

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Since Arvind Krishna became the CEO in April 2020, IBM has acquired more than 30 companies. They made their 5th acquisition with Polar Security after acquiring StepZen and Ahana in February and April, respectively, in 2023. IBM has been researching …

OpenAI Launched Official ChatGPT App for iOS

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OpenAI officially announced the release of an official iOS app that gives users access to its well-known AI chatbot on the move. According to the company, the new ChatGPT app will be free to use, ad-free, and voice input-enabled, although it …

Notorious State-Sponsored Hacker Group Stealthy Infrastructure Uncovered

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Group-IB’s cybersecurity researchers made a significant discovery, revealing undisclosed attack infrastructure employed by the highly active state-sponsored group SideWinder. Their targets mainly encompassed entities situated in:-  Pakistan China In a collaborative report, cybersecurity firms Group-IB and Bridewell disclosed the existence …

New Water Orthrus’s Hacker Group Deploys Malware & Steals Credit Card Data

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Trend Micro researchers have been monitoring a threat actor known as Water Orthrus since 2021, as they employed pay-per-install networks to distribute the CopperStealer malware. The malware has undergone several modifications and upgrades by the threat actor to serve different …

Hackers Selling Powerful Infostealers on Underground Forums

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The role of info stealers (aka stealers) in the cybercrime world has been growing, according to researchers at the SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU). While threat actors make use of them to steal the following data from the networks and …

Microsoft Cloud Services Scanning Inside of password-protected Zip Files for Malware

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Threat actors have been evading in-built scanners in the cloud and local systems but archiving them as password-protected ZIP files. This makes it hard for scanners to crack the password and scan for malicious files. However, recent reports suggest that …

Camaro Dragon Hacker Group Attack TP-Link Routers to Deploy Remote Shells

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Recently, the cybersecurity experts at Checkpoint identified that the Chinese state-sponsored group “Camaro Dragon” employs a custom “Horse Shell” malware embedded in TP-Link routers’ firmware to target European foreign affairs organizations, leveraging residential networks for their attacks. The attack targets …

Hackers are Actively Using the new.zip Domain for Malicious Attacks

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Top-Level Domains (TLDs) have been extremely popular ever since the emergence of the internet. ICANN is the organization that is responsible for these TLD registrations. Domains ending with any characters like .xyz, .top, etc., are being registered by this ICANN. …

Russian Hacker “Wazawaka” Indicted for Ransomware

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A Russian man identified by KrebsOnSecurity in January 2022 as a prolific and vocal member of several top ransomware groups was the subject of two indictments unsealed by the Justice Department today. U.S. prosecutors say Mikhail Pavolovich Matveev, a.k.a. “Wazawaka” …