‘Roaming Mantis’ Android Malware Targeting Europeans via Smishing Campaigns

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A financially motivated campaign that targets Android devices and spreads mobile malware via SMS phishing techniques since at least 2018 has spread its tentacles to strike victims located in France …

Microsoft Temporarily Disables MSIX App Installers to Prevent Malware Abuse

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Microsoft last week announced that it’s temporarily disabling the MSIX ms-appinstaller protocol handler in Windows following evidence that a security vulnerability in the installer component was exploited by threat actors …

Microsoft Disables Internet Macros in Office Apps by Default to Block Malware Attacks

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Microsoft on Monday said it’s taking steps to disable Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across its products, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Visio, for documents downloaded …

Chinese Hackers Target Taiwanese Financial Institutions with a new Stealthy Backdoor

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A Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been targeting Taiwanese financial institutions as part of a “persistent campaign” that lasted for at least 18 months. The intrusions, whose primary …

IoT/connected Device Discovery and Security Auditing in Corporate Networks

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Today’s enterprise networks are complex environments with different types of wired and wireless devices being connected and disconnected. The current device discovery solutions have been mainly focused on identifying and …

Hackers Backdoored Systems at China’s National Games Just Before Competition

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Systems hosting content pertaining to the National Games of China were successfully breached last year by an unnamed Chinese-language-speaking hacking group. Cybersecurity firm Avast, which dissected the intrusion, said that the attackers …

New CapraRAT Android Malware Targets Indian Government and Military Personnel

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A politically motivated advanced persistent threat (APT) group has expanded its malware arsenal to include a new remote access trojan (RAT) in its espionage attacks aimed at Indian military and …

CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Windows Vulnerability

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging federal agencies to secure their systems against an actively exploited security vulnerability in Windows that could be abused to gain …

Microsoft Uncovers New Details of Russian Hacking Campaign Targeting Ukraine

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Microsoft on Friday shared more of the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) adopted by the Russia-based Gamaredon hacking group to facilitate a barrage of cyber espionage attacks aimed at several …