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A new malware is hijacking high-profile Meta Facebook Business and advertising platform accounts through a phishing campaign that targets LinkedIn accounts. "The malware is designed to steal browser cookies and take advantage of authenticated Facebook sessions to steal information from the victim's Facebook account and ultimately hijack any Facebook Business account that the victim has sufficient access to," researchers wrote in a blog post accompanying the report.

Microsoft says attackers increasingly use malicious Internet Information Services web server extensions to backdoor unpatched Exchange servers as they have lower detection rates compared to web shells. Microsoft previously saw custom IIS backdoors installed after threat actors exploited ZOHO ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus and SolarWinds Orion vulnerabilities.

Microsoft says attackers increasingly use malicious Internet Information Services web server extensions to backdoor unpatched Exchange servers as they have lower detection rates compared to web shells. "In most cases, the actual backdoor logic is minimal and cannot be considered malicious without a broader understanding of how legitimate IIS extensions work, which also makes it difficult to determine the source of infection," the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team said Tuesday.

A new batch of malicious Android apps filled with adware and malware was found on the Google Play Store that have been installed close to 10 million times on mobile devices. If you installed any of these apps before their removal from the Play Store, you will still need to uninstall them from your device manually and run an AV scan to clean any remnants.

The Windows software nasty - dubbed Luca Stealer by the folks at Cyble who detected it - is the latest to be built using the Rust programming language. The researchers wrote in a report that Luca Stealer already has been updated three times, with the developer adding multiple functions, and that they have seen more than 25 samples of the source code in the wild since it was shared via GitHub on July 3, which may lead to wider adoption by the cybercriminal community.

Ensuring your data is protected is the first step in dealing with cyber-attacks and outages. Getting back to business also means having a plan for protecting and rapidly recovering the VMs your applications depend on, as well as your data.

Cybersecurity researchers have reiterated similarities between the latest iteration of the LockBit ransomware and BlackMatter, a rebranded variant of the DarkSide ransomware strain that closed shop in November 2021. The new version of LockBit, called LockBit 3.0 aka LockBit Black, was released in June 2022, launching a brand new leak site and what's the very first ransomware bug bounty program, alongside Zcash as a cryptocurrency payment option.

The decentralized music platform Audius was hacked over the weekend, with threat actors stealing over 18 million AUDIO tokens worth approximately $6 million. Audius is a decentralized streaming platform hosted on the Ethereum blockchain where artists can earn AUDIO tokens by sharing their music, and users can earn tokens by curating and listening to content.

"If you have information on any individuals associated with the North Korean government-linked malicious cyber groups and who are involved in targeting U.S. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, you may be eligible for a reward," the Department revealed Tuesday. One month later, the FBI linked the largest crypto hack ever to two North Korean hacking groups, Lazarus and BlueNorOff, saying they were responsible for the theft of $620 million in Ethereum from Axie Infinity's Ronin network bridge.

The U.S. State Department has increased rewards paid to anyone providing information on any North Korean-sponsored threat groups' members to $10 million. These increased bounties add to rewards of up to $5 million announced by the State Department in March for info on DPRK-backed threat actors targeting crypto exchanges and financial institutions worldwide to support the North Korean regime's illicit activities.