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In its 2023 Mid-Year Cyber Security Report, Check Point Software spotlighted numerous exploits so far this year, including novel uses of artificial intelligence and an old-school attack vector: USB drives. Check Point also reported that state-aligned threat actors are even launching 10-year-old infections such as ANDROMEDA via USB drives.

Although ShadowPad is a widely available trojan that multiple APT groups use, Symantec tracks the recent attacks separately, reporting that Redfly appears to have an exclusive focus on critical national infrastructure. The ShadowPad variant seen in the attacks masquerades its components as VMware files, dropping them on the victim's filesystem.

Bruschetta-Board is a device for all hardware hackers looking for a fairly-priced all-in-one debugger and programmer that supports UART, JTAG, I2C & SPI protocols and allows to interact with different targets' voltages. A handy feature of Bruschetta-Board is the fact it mounts level shifters.

A nation-state threat actor known as 'Charming Kitten' has been observed deploying a previously unknown backdoor malware named 'Sponsor' against 34 companies around the globe. One of the notable features of the Sponsor backdoor is that it hides its otherwise innocuous configuration files on the victim's disk so they can be discreetly deployed by malicious batch scripts, successfully evading detection.

A new phishing attack is leveraging Facebook Messenger to propagate messages with malicious attachments from a "Swarm of fake and hijacked personal accounts" with the ultimate goal of taking over the targets' accounts. "Originating yet again from a Vietnamese-based group, this campaign uses a tiny compressed file attachment that packs a powerful Python-based stealer dropped in a multi-stage process full of simple yet effective obfuscation methods," Guardio Labs researcher Oleg Zaytsev said in an analysis published over the weekend.

North Korean threat actors are once again attempting to compromise security researchers' machines by employing a zero-day exploit. The warning comes from Google's own security researchers Clement Lecigne and Maddie Stone, who detailed the latest campaign mounted by government-backed attackers.

Threat actors associated with North Korea are continuing to target the cybersecurity community using a zero-day bug in unspecified software over the past several weeks to infiltrate their machines. A search on X shows that the now-suspended account has been active since at least October 2022, with the actor releasing proof-of-concept exploit code for high-severity privilege escalation flaws in the Windows Kernel such as CVE-2021-34514 and CVE-2022-21881.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday warned that multiple nation-state actors are exploiting security flaws in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN and Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus to gain unauthorized access and establish persistence on compromised systems. "Nation-state advanced persistent threat actors exploited CVE-2022-47966 to gain unauthorized access to a public-facing application, establish persistence, and move laterally through the network," according to a joint alert published by the agency, alongside Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Cyber National Mission Force.

State-backed hacking groups have breached a U.S. aeronautical organization using exploits targeting critical Zoho ManageEngine and Fortinet vulnerabilities, a joint advisory published by CISA, the FBI, and the United States Cyber Command revealed on Thursday. CISA was part of the incident response between February and April and said the hacking groups had been in the compromised aviation organization's network since at least January after hacking an Internet-exposed server running Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus and a Fortinet firewall.

State-backed hacking groups have breached a U.S. aeronautical organization using exploits targeting critical Zoho and Fortinet vulnerabilities, a joint advisory published by CISA, the FBI, and the United States Cyber Command revealed on Thursday. CISA was part of the incident response between February and April and said the hacking groups had been in the compromised aviation organization's network since at least January after hacking an Internet-exposed server running Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus and a Fortinet firewall.