Experts Find Strategic Similarities b/w NotPetya and WhisperGate Attacks on Ukraine

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Latest analysis into the wiper malware that targeted dozens of Ukrainian agencies earlier this month has revealed “strategic similarities” to NotPetya malware that was unleashed against the country’s infrastructure and elsewhere in 2017. The malware, dubbed WhisperGate, was discovered by Microsoft last week, …

U.S. Sanctions 4 Ukrainians for Working with Russia to Destabilize Ukraine

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The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions against four current and former Ukrainian government officials for engaging in “Russian government-directed influence activities” in the country, including gathering sensitive information about its critical infrastructure. The agency said the four individuals …

Chinese Hackers Spotted Using New UEFI Firmware Implant in Targeted Attacks

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A previously undocumented firmware implant deployed to maintain stealthy persistence as part of a targeted espionage campaign has been linked to the Chinese-speaking Winnti advanced persistent threat group (APT41). Kaspersky, which codenamed the rootkit MoonBounce, characterized the malware as the “most advanced UEFI firmware implant …

Critical Bugs in Control Web Panel Expose Linux Servers to RCE Attacks

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Researchers have disclosed details of two critical security vulnerabilities in Control Web Panel that could be abused as part of an exploit chain to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution on affected servers. Tracked as CVE-2021-45467, the issue concerns a case …

Hackers Planted Secret Backdoor in Dozens of WordPress Plugins and Themes

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In yet another instance of software supply chain attack, dozens of WordPress themes and plugins hosted on a developer’s website were backdoored with malicious code in the first half of September 2021 with the goal of infecting further sites. The …

Interpol Busted 11 Members of Nigerian BEC Cybercrime Gang

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A coordinated law enforcement operation has resulted in the arrest of 11 members allegedly belonging to a Nigerian cybercrime gang notorious for perpetrating business email compromise (BEC) attacks targeting more than 50,000 victims in recent years. The disruption of the …

Google Details Two Zero-Day Bugs Reported in Zoom Clients and MMR Servers

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An exploration of zero-click attack surface for the popular video conferencing solution Zoom has yielded two previously undisclosed security vulnerabilities that could have been exploited to crash the service, execute malicious code, and even leak arbitrary areas of its memory. …

Cisco Issues Patch for Critical RCE Vulnerability in RCM for StarOS Software

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Cisco Systems has rolled out fixes for a critical security flaw affecting Redundancy Configuration Manager (RCM) for Cisco StarOS Software that could be weaponized by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and take over vulnerable machines. Tracked as CVE-2022-20649 (CVSS …

DoNot Hacking Team Targeting Government and Military Entities in South Asia

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A threat actor with potential links to an Indian cybersecurity company has been nothing if remarkably persistent in its attacks against military organizations based in South Asia, including Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, since at least September 2020 by deploying …

Cyber Threat Protection — It All Starts with Visibility

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Just as animals use their senses to detect danger, cybersecurity depends on sensors to identify signals in the computing environment that may signal danger. The more highly tuned, diverse and coordinated the senses, the more likely one is to detect …