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The Russia-linked threat actor known as Gamaredon has been observed conducting data exfiltration activities within an hour of the initial compromise. "As a vector of primary compromise, for the most part, emails and messages in messengers are used, in most cases, using previously compromised accounts," the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine said in an analysis of the group published last week.
Attackers use various tactics to access sensitive information, such as email account compromise and using a legitimate email address to initiate the attack. In a more insidious attack, an attacker may compromise an existing employee's email account from the inside.
The compromise of PBI Research and The Berwyn Group's MOVEit installation has resulted in the theft of data belonging to several pension systems and insurance companies - and millions of their users. The fallout from the PBI Research MOVEit compromise.
A February 2023 generative AI survey of 1,000 executives revealed that 49% of respondents use ChatGPT now, and 30% plan to tap into the ubiquitous generative AI tool soon. 1 - Threat Actors Can Exploit Generative AI to Dupe SaaS Authentication Protocols #. As ambitious employees devise ways for AI tools to help them accomplish more with less too, do cybercriminals.
A report from the Microsoft Defender Experts reveals a new multi-staged adversary in the middle phishing attack combined with a business email compromise attack targeting banking and financial institutions. The phishing email impersonates one of the target's trusted vendors to appear more legitimate and blend with legitimate email traffic and bypass detections, especially when an organization has policies to automatically allow emails from trusted vendors.
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Call it BEC 3.0 - phishing attacks that bury the hook in legitimate web services like Dropbox. SEE: Another hide-the-malware attack focuses on DNS. "Leveraging legitimate websites to host malicious content is a surefire way to get into the inbox," he said.
An insecure default configuration issue makes most internet-facing Apache Superset servers vulnerable to attackers, Horizon3. Administrators in charge of Apache Superset instances should check whether they are among that lot, upgrade them to a fixed version, and check whether attackers might have exploited the weakness to breach them.
Pieces of the 3CX supply chain compromise puzzle are starting to fall into place, though we're still far away from seeing the complete picture. 3CX engaged Mandiant to investigate how their own compromise happened, and they revealed last Thursday that one of 3CX employees downloaded the booby-trapped X TRADER installer, leading to the ultimate deployment of a modular backdoor on their system.