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The Chinese cyber espionage actor known as Camaro Dragon has been observed leveraging a new strain of self-propagating malware that spreads through compromised USB drives. The cybersecurity company, which found evidence of USB malware infections in Myanmar, South Korea, Great Britain, India, and Russia, said the findings are the result of a cyber incident that it investigated at an unnamed European hospital in early 2023.
The North Korean APT37 hacking group uses a new 'FadeStealer' information-stealing malware containing a 'wiretapping' feature, allowing the threat actor to snoop and record from victims' microphones. In a new report from the AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center, researchers provide information on new custom malware dubbed 'AblyGo backdoor' and 'FadeStealer' that the threat actors use in cyber espionage attacks.
The Chinese state-sponsored hacking group tracked as APT15 has been observed using a novel backdoor named 'Graphican' in a new campaign between late 2022 and early 2023. APT15, also known as Nickel, Flea, Ke3Chang, and Vixen Panda, are Chinese state hackers targeting important public and private organizations worldwide since at least 2004.
A new malware called Condi has been observed exploiting a security vulnerability in TP-Link Archer AX21 Wi-Fi routers to rope the devices into a distributed denial-of-service botnet. "The Telegram channel was started in May 2022, and the threat actor has been monetizing its botnet by providing DDoS-as-a-service and selling the malware source code," security researchers Joie Salvio and Roy Tay said.
A new DDoS-as-a-Service botnet called "Condi" emerged in May 2023, exploiting a vulnerability in TP-Link Archer AX21 Wi-Fi routers to build an army of bots to conduct attacks. Condi aims to enlist new devices to create a powerful DDoS botnet that can be rented to launch attacks on websites and services.
An unknown threat actor is brute-forcing Linux SSH servers to install a wide range of malware, including the Tsunami DDoS bot, ShellBot, log cleaners, privilege escalation tools, and an XMRig coin miner. Network administrators typically use SSH to manage Linux devices remotely, performing tasks such as running commands, changing the configuration, updating software, and troubleshooting problems.
A cyberespionage and hacking campaign tracked as 'RedClouds' uses the custom 'RDStealer' malware to automatically steal data from drives shared through Remote Desktop connections. The Remote Desktop Protocol is a proprietary Microsoft protocol that allows users to remotely connect to Windows desktops and use them as if they were in front of the computer.
A highly targeted cyber attack against an East Asian IT company involved the deployment of a custom malware written in Golang called RDStealer. Bitdefender said all the machines infected over the course of the incident were manufactured by Dell, suggesting that the threat actors deliberately chose this folder to camouflage the malicious activity.
More than 101,000 ChatGPT user accounts have been stolen by information-stealing malware over the past year, according to dark web marketplace data. Cyberintelligence firm Group-IB reports having identified over a hundred thousand info-stealer logs on various underground websites containing ChatGPT accounts, with the peak observed in May 2023, when threat actors posted 26,800 new ChatGPT credential pairs.
A malware campaign is using fake OnlyFans content and adult lures to install a remote access trojan known as 'DcRAT,' allowing threat actors to steal data and credentials or deploy ransomware on the infected device. This is not the first time threat actors have taken advantage of OnlyFans to achieve their malicious goals, as in January 2023, attackers abused an open redirect on a UK state site to direct visitors to fake OnlyFans sites.