Ransomware Attackers Using SystemBC Malware With RAT and Tor Proxy

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Cybercriminals are increasingly outsourcing the task of deploying ransomware to affiliates using commodity malware and attack tools, according to new research. In a new analysis published by Sophos today and …

New Evidence Suggests SolarWinds’ Codebase Was Hacked to Inject Backdoor

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The investigation into how the attackers managed to compromise SolarWinds’ internal network and poison the company’s software updates is still underway, but we may be one step closer to understanding …

SolarWinds Issues Second Hotfix for Orion Platform Supply Chain Attack

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Network monitoring services provider SolarWinds officially released a second hotfix to address a critical vulnerability in its Orion platform that was exploited to insert malware and breach public and private entities in …

Wormable Gitpaste-12 Botnet Returns to Target Linux Servers, IoT Devices

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A new wormable botnet that spreads via GitHub and Pastebin to install cryptocurrency miners and backdoors on target systems has returned with expanded capabilities to compromise web applications, IP cameras, …

Nearly 18,000 SolarWinds Customers Installed Backdoored Software

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SolarWinds, the enterprise monitoring software provider which found itself at the epicenter of the most consequential supply chain attacks, said as many as 18,000 of its high-profile customers might have installed …

Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers via Wi-Fi Signals (Without Wi-Fi Hardware)

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A security researcher has demonstrated that sensitive data could be exfiltrated from air-gapped computers via a novel technique that leverages Wi-Fi signals as a covert channel—surprisingly, without requiring the presence …

SoReL-20M: A Huge Dataset of 20 Million Malware Samples Released Online

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Cybersecurity firms Sophos and ReversingLabs on Monday jointly released the first-ever production-scale malware research dataset to be made available to the general public that aims to build effective defenses and …

US Agencies and FireEye Were Hacked Using SolarWinds Software Backdoor

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State-sponsored actors allegedly working for Russia have targeted the US Treasury, the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and other government agencies to monitor internal email traffic as part of a widespread …