New Chinese Malware Targeted Russia’s Largest Nuclear Submarine Designer

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

A threat actor believed to be working on behalf of Chinese state-sponsored interests was recently observed targeting a Russia-based defense contractor involved in designing nuclear submarines for the naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces. The phishing attack, which singled …

Hackers Exploit SonicWall Zero-Day Bug in FiveHands Ransomware Attacks

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

An “aggressive” financially motivated threat group tapped into a zero-day flaw in SonicWall VPN appliances prior to it being patched by the company to deploy a new strain of ransomware called FIVEHANDS. The group, tracked by cybersecurity firm Mandiant as …

Microsoft Finds ‘BadAlloc’ Flaws Affecting Wide-Range of IoT and OT Devices

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Microsoft researchers on Thursday disclosed two dozen vulnerabilities affecting a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT) devices used in industrial, medical, and enterprise networks that could be abused by adversaries to execute arbitrary code and …

A New Slack channel for Cybersecurity Leaders Outside of the Fortune 2000

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Perhaps due to the nature of the position, the InfoSec leadership roles tend to be solitary ones. CISOs, or their equivalent decision-makers in organizations without the role, have so many constant drains on their attention – keeping their knowledge fresh, …

A New PHP Composer Bug Could Enable Widespread Supply-Chain Attacks

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

The maintainers of Composer, a package manager for PHP, have shipped an update to address a critical vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary commands and “backdoor every PHP package,” resulting in a supply-chain attack. Tracked as …

Passwordstate Warns of Ongoing Phishing Attacks Following Data Breach

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Click Studios, the Australian software firm which confirmed a supply chain attack affecting its Passwordstate password management application, has warned customers of an ongoing phishing attack by an unknown threat actor. “We have been advised a bad actor has commenced a phishing …

LuckyMouse Hackers Target Banks, Companies and Governments in 2020

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

An adversary known for its watering hole attacks against government entities has been linked to a slew of newly detected intrusions targeting various organizations in Central Asia and the Middle East. The malicious activity, collectively named “EmissarySoldier,” has been attributed to a …

How to Conduct Vulnerability Assessments: An Essential Guide for 2021

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Hackers are scanning the internet for weaknesses all the time, and if you don’t want your organization to fall victim, you need to be the first to find these weak spots. In other words, you have to adopt a proactive …

Chinese Hackers Attacking Military Organizations With New Backdoor

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Bad actors with suspected ties to China have been behind a wide-ranging cyberespionage campaign targeting military organizations in Southeast Asia for nearly two years, according to new research. Attributing the attacks to a threat actor dubbed “Naikon APT,” cybersecurity firm …

Researchers Uncover Stealthy Linux Malware That Went Undetected for 3 Years

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

A previously undocumented Linux malware with backdoor capabilities has managed to stay under the radar for about three years, allowing the threat actor behind the operation to harvest and exfiltrate sensitive information from infected systems. Dubbed “RotaJakiro” by researchers from …