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The notorious North Korean state-backed hackers, known as the Lazarus Group, are now targeting vulnerable Windows Internet Information Services web servers to gain initial access to corporate networks. The latest tactic of targeting Windows IIS servers was discovered by South Korean researchers at the AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center.
A Brazilian threat actor is targeting Portuguese financial institutions with information-stealing malware as part of a long-running campaign that commenced in 2021. PeepingTitle, like Maxtrilha, is written in the Delphi programming language and is equipped to grant the attacker full control over the compromised hosts as well as capture screenshots and drop additional payloads.
The National Security Agency and Five Eyes partner agencies have identified indicators of compromise associated with a People's Republic of China state-sponsored cyber actor dubbed Volt Typhoon, which is using living off the land techniques to target networks across US critical infrastructure. The authoring agencies also includes a summary of indicators of compromise values, such as unique command-line strings, hashes, file paths, exploitation of CVE-2021-40539 and CVE-2021-27860 vulnerabilities, and file names commonly used by this actor.
A stealthy China-based group managed to establish a persistent foothold into critical infrastructure organizations in the U.S. and Guam without being detected, Microsoft and the "Five Eyes" nations said on Wednesday. The tech giant's threat intelligence team is tracking the activity, which includes post-compromise credential access and network system discovery, under the name Volt Typhoon.
The Iranian threat actor known as Agrius is leveraging a new ransomware strain called Moneybird in its attacks targeting Israeli organizations. Agrius, also known as Pink Sandstorm, has a track record of staging destructive data-wiping attacks aimed at Israel under the guise of ransomware infections.
Ongoing attacks are targeting an Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in a WordPress cookie consent plugin named Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner with more than 40,000 active installs. WordPress security company Defiant, which spotted the attacks, says the vulnerability in question also allows unauthenticated attackers to create rogue admin accounts on WordPress websites running unpatched plugin versions.
Microsoft says a Chinese cyberespionage group it tracks as Volt Typhoon has been targeting critical infrastructure organizations across the United States, including Guam, since at least mid-2021. "Microsoft assesses with moderate confidence that this Volt Typhoon campaign is pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said.
A suspected Iranian state-supported threat actor known as 'Agrius' is now deploying a new ransomware strain named 'Moneybird' against Israeli organizations. Check Point's researchers who discovered the new ransomware strain believe that Agrius developed it to help expand their operations, while the use of 'Moneybird' is yet another one of the threat group's attempts to cover their tracks.
At least eight websites associated with shipping, logistics, and financial services companies in Israel were targeted as part of a watering hole attack. Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company ClearSky attributed the attacks with low confidence to an Iranian threat actor tracked as Tortoiseshell, which is also called Crimson Sandstorm, Imperial Kitten, and TA456.
A relatively unknown advanced persistent threat group named 'GoldenJackal' has been targeting government and diplomatic entities in Asia since 2019 for espionage. Kaspersky has been tracking GoldenJackal since 2020, and today reports that the threat actors have had notable activity in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Turkey.