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GoTo says hackers breached its dev environment, cloud storage
2022-12-01 00:14

Remote access and collaboration company GoTo disclosed today that they suffered a security breach where threat actors gained access to their development environment and third-party cloud storage service. The company says they first learned of the incident after detecting unusual activity in their development environment and third-party cloud storage service.

Lastpass says hackers accessed customer data in new breach
2022-11-30 21:24

LastPass says unknown attackers breached its cloud storage using information stolen during a previous security incident from August 2022.The company added that, once in, the threat actors also managed to access customer data stored in the compromised storage service.

North Korea Hackers Using New "Dolphin" Backdoor to Spy on South Korean Targets
2022-11-30 18:30

The North Korea-linked ScarCruft group has been attributed to a previously undocumented backdoor called Dolphin that the threat actor has used against targets located in its southern counterpart. "The backdoor has a wide range of spying capabilities, including monitoring drives and portable devices and exfiltrating files of interest, keylogging and taking screenshots, and stealing credentials from browsers," ESET researcher Filip Jurčacko said in a new report published today.

North Korea Hackers Using New "Dolphin" Backdoor to Spy on South Korean Targets
2022-11-30 18:30

The North Korea-linked ScarCruft group has been attributed to a previously undocumented backdoor called Dolphin that the threat actor has used against targets located in its southern counterpart. "The backdoor has a wide range of spying capabilities, including monitoring drives and portable devices and exfiltrating files of interest, keylogging and taking screenshots, and stealing credentials from browsers," ESET researcher Filip Jurčacko said in a new report published today.

Chinese Cyber Espionage Hackers Using USB Devices to Target Entities in Philippines
2022-11-30 06:21

A threat actor with a suspected China nexus has been linked to a set of espionage attacks in the Philippines that primarily relies on USB devices as an initial infection vector. The reliance on infected USB drives to propagate the malware is unusual if not new.

Chinese Cyber Espionage Hackers Using USB Devices to Target Entities in Philippines
2022-11-30 06:21

A threat actor with a suspected China nexus has been linked to a set of espionage attacks in the Philippines that primarily relies on USB devices as an initial infection vector. The reliance on infected USB drives to propagate the malware is unusual if not new.

Hackers Using Trending TikTok 'Invisible Challenge' to Spread Malware
2022-11-29 11:59

Threat actors are capitalizing on a popular TikTok challenge to trick users into downloading information-stealing malware, according to new research from Checkmarx. "Instructions to get the 'unfilter' software deploy WASP stealer malware hiding inside malicious Python packages," Checkmarx researcher Guy Nachshon said in a Monday analysis.

Hackers Using Trending TikTok 'Invisible Challenge' to Spread Malware
2022-11-29 11:59

Threat actors are capitalizing on a popular TikTok challenge to trick users into downloading information-stealing malware, according to new research from Checkmarx. The trend, called Invisible Challenge, involves applying a filter called Invisible Body that just leaves behind a silhouette of the person's body.

New ransomware attacks in Ukraine linked to Russian Sandworm hackers
2022-11-25 18:01

New ransomware attacks targeting organizations in Ukraine first detected this Monday have been linked to the notorious Russian military threat group Sandworm. "There are similarities with previous attacks conducted by Sandworm: a PowerShell script used to distribute the.NET ransomware from the domain controller is almost identical to the one seen last April during the Industroyer2 attacks against the energy sector."

Hackers modify popular OpenVPN Android app to include spyware
2022-11-24 15:29

A threat actor associated with cyberespionage operations since at least 2017 has been luring victims with fake VPN software for Android that is a trojanized version of legitimate software SoftVPN and OpenVPN. Researchers say that the campaign was "Highly targeted" and aimed at stealing contact and call data, device location, as well as messages from multiple apps. ESET malware analyst Lukas Stefanko says that Bahamut repackaged the SoftVPN and OpenVPN apps for Android to include malicious code with spying functions.