Notorious TrickBot Malware Gang Shuts Down its Botnet Infrastructure

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The modular Windows crimeware platform known as TrickBot formally shuttered its infrastructure on Thursday after reports emerged of its imminent retirement amid a lull in its activity for almost two months, marking an end to one of the most persistent malware campaigns …

Warning — Deadbolt Ransomware Targeting ASUSTOR NAS Devices

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ASUSTOR network-attached storage (NAS) devices have become the latest victim of Deadbolt ransomware, less than a month after similar attacks singled out QNAP NAS appliances. In response to the infections, the company has released firmware updates (ADM 4.0.4.RQO2) to “fix related security issues.” The …

New Wiper Malware Targeting Ukraine Amid Russia’s Military Operation

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Cybersecurity firms ESET and Broadcom’s Symantec said they discovered a new data wiper malware used in fresh attacks against hundreds of machines in Ukraine, as Russian forces formally launched a full-scale military operation against the country. The Slovak company dubbed …

Dridex Malware Deploying Entropy Ransomware on Hacked Computers

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Similarities have been unearthed between the Dridex general-purpose malware and a little-known ransomware strain called Entropy, suggesting that the operators are continuing to rebrand their extortion operations under a different name. “The similarities are in the software packer used to …

9-Year-Old Unpatched Email Hacking Bug Uncovered in Horde Webmail Software

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Users of Horde Webmail are being urged to disable a feature to contain a nine-year-old unpatched security vulnerability in the software that could be abused to gain complete access to email accounts simply by previewing an attachment. “This gives the …

Chinese Experts Uncover Details of Equation Group’s Bvp47 Covert Hacking Tool

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Researchers from China’s Pangu Lab have disclosed details of a “top-tier” backdoor put to use by the Equation Group, an advanced persistent threat (APT) with alleged ties to the cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Dubbed …

25 Malicious JavaScript Libraries Distributed via Official NPM Package Repository

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Another batch of 25 malicious JavaScript libraries have made their way to the official NPM package registry with the goal of stealing Discord tokens and environment variables from compromised systems, more than two months after 17 similar packages were taken down. The …

Chinese Hackers Target Taiwan’s Financial Trading Sector with Supply Chain Attack

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An advanced persistent threat (APT) group operating with objectives aligned with the Chinese government has been linked to an organized supply chain attack on Taiwan’s financial sector. The attacks are said to have first commenced at the end of November …

Hackers Stole $1.7 Million Worth of NFTs from Users of OpenSea Marketplace

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Malicious actors took advantage of a smart contract upgrade process in the OpenSea NFT marketplace to carry out a phishing attack against 17 of its users that resulted in the theft of virtual assets worth about $1.7 million. NFTs, short for non-fungible …

Hackers Backdoor Unpatched Microsoft SQL Database Servers with Cobalt Strike

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Vulnerable internet-facing Microsoft SQL (MS SQL) Servers are being targeted by threat actors as part of a new campaign to deploy the Cobalt Strike adversary simulation tool on compromised hosts. “Attacks that target MS SQL servers include attacks to the …