‘Lone Wolf’ Hacker Group Targeting Afghanistan and India with Commodity RATs

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A new malware campaign targeting Afghanistan and India is exploiting a now-patched, 20-year-old flaw affecting Microsoft Office to deploy an array of commodity remote access trojans (RATs) that allow the …

Hackers Set Up Fake Company to Get IT Experts to Launch Ransomware Attacks

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The financially motivated FIN7 cybercrime gang has masqueraded as yet another fictitious cybersecurity company called “Bastion Secure” to recruit unwitting software engineers under the guise of penetration testing in a …

Malicious NPM Packages Caught Running Cryptominer On Windows, Linux, macOS Devices

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Three JavaScript libraries uploaded to the official NPM package repository have been unmasked as crypto-mining malware, once again demonstrating how open-source software package repositories are becoming a lucrative target for …

Researchers Break Intel SGX With New ‘SmashEx’ CPU Attack Technique

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A newly disclosed vulnerability affecting Intel processors could be abused by an adversary to gain access to sensitive information stored within enclaves and even run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. …

Two Eastern Europeans Sentenced for Providing Bulletproof Hosting to Cyber Criminals

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Two Eastern European nationals have been sentenced in the U.S. for offering “bulletproof hosting” services to cybercriminals, who used the technical infrastructure to distribute malware and attack financial institutions across …