CISA Warns of High-Severity Flaws in Schneider and GE Digital’s SCADA Software

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) last week published an industrial control system (ICS) advisory related to multiple vulnerabilities impacting Schneider Electric’s Easergy medium voltage protection relays. “Successful exploitation of …

Iranian Hackers Using New Spying Malware That Abuses Telegram Messenger API

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An Iranian geopolitical nexus threat actor has been uncovered deploying two new targeted malware that come with “simple” backdoor functionalities as part of an intrusion against an unnamed Middle East …

Social Media Hijacking Malware Spreading Through Gaming Apps on Microsoft Store

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A new malware capable of controlling social media accounts is being distributed through Microsoft’s official app store in the form of trojanized gaming apps, infecting more than 5,000 Windows machines …

Putin Warns Russian Critical Infrastructure to Brace for Potential Cyber Attacks

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The Russian government on Thursday warned of cyber attacks aimed at domestic critical infrastructure operators, as the country’s full-blown invasion of Ukraine enters the second day. In addition to cautioning …

Iran’s MuddyWater Hacker Group Using New Malware in Worldwide Cyber Attacks

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Cybersecurity agencies from the U.K. and the U.S. have laid bare a new malware used by the Iranian government-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group in attacks targeting government and commercial …

New “SockDetour” Fileless, Socketless Backdoor Targets U.S. Defense Contractors

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Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a previously undocumented and stealthy custom malware called SockDetour that targeted U.S.-based defense contractors with the goal of being used as a secondary …

Russia-Ukraine War: Phishing, Malware and Hacker Groups Taking Sides

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Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has warned of Belarusian state-sponsored hackers targeting its military personnel and related individuals as part of a phishing campaign mounted amidst Russia’s military invasion …

TrickBot Gang Likely Shifting Operations to Switch to New Malware

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TrickBot, the infamous Windows crimeware-as-a-service (CaaS) solution that’s used by a variety of threat actors to deliver next-stage payloads like ransomware, appears to be undergoing a transition of sorts, with …

New Flaws Discovered in Cisco’s Network Operating System for Switches

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Cisco has released software updates to address four security vulnerabilities in its software that could be weaponized by malicious actors to take control of affected systems. The most critical of …