Security News
Norwegian police agency Økokrim has announced the seizure of 60 million NOK worth of cryptocurrency stolen by the Lazarus Group in March 2022 following the Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge hack. The development comes more than 10 months after the U.S. Treasury Department implicated the North Korea-backed hacking group for the theft of $620 million from the Ronin cross-chain bridge.
Web hosting giant GoDaddy says unknown attackers have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment. While GoDaddy discovered the security breach in early December 2022 following customer reports that their sites were being used to redirect to random domains, the attackers had access to the company's network for multiple years.
In this Help Net Security video, Daniel Dos Santos, Head of Security Research at Forescout, talks about recent research, which has revealed how attackers can move laterally between vulnerable networks and devices found at the controller level of critical infrastructure. This lateral movement lets attackers access industrial control systems and cross often-overlooked security perimeters to cause physical damage.
Hackers are deploying a new malware named 'Frebniss' on Microsoft's Internet Information Services that stealthily executes commands sent via web requests. Microsoft IIS is a web server software that acts as a web server and a web app hosting platform for services like Outlook on the Web for Microsoft Exchange.
Chinese-speaking individuals in Southeast and East Asia are the targets of a new rogue Google Ads campaign that delivers remote access trojans such as FatalRAT to compromised machines. The attacks involve purchasing ad slots to appear in Google search results that direct users searching for popular applications to rogue websites hosting trojanized installers, ESET said in a report published today.
Security researchers are seeing threat actors switching to a new and open-source command and control framework known as Havoc as an alternative to paid options such as Cobalt Strike and Brute Ratel. Among its most interesting capabilities, Havoc is cross-platform and it bypasses Microsoft Defender on up-to-date Windows 11 devices using sleep obfuscation, return address stack spoofing, and indirect syscalls.
Russian national Vladislav Klyushin was found guilty of participating in a global scheme that involved hacking into U.S. computer networks to steal confidential earnings reports, which helped the criminals net $90,000,000 in illegal profits. Klyushin was extradited to the U.S. in December 2021 to face charges of hacking into the systems of two U.S.-based filing agents that American companies used to file earnings reports through the Securities and Exchange Commissions system.
A hacker is using fake code-signing certificates impersonating cybersecurity firm Emsisoft to target customers using its security products, hoping to bypass their defenses. In a new security advisory, Emsisoft warned that one of its customers was targeted by hackers using an executable signed by a spoofed Emsisoft certificate.
The APT37 threat group uses a new evasive 'M2RAT' malware and steganography to target individuals for intelligence collection. The threat actors targeted EU-based organizations with a new version of their mobile backdoor named 'Dolphin,' deployed a custom RAT called 'Konni,' and targeted U.S. journalists with a highly-customizable malware named 'Goldbackdoor.
Microsoft on Monday attributed a China-based cyber espionage actor to a set of attacks targeting diplomatic entities in South America. The threat actor is said to use established hacking tools such as ShadowPad to infiltrate targets and maintain persistent access.