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A cyber espionage campaign targeting organizations in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine is using novel malware to steal data, according to Russia-based infosec software vendor Kaspersky. In a report published Tuesday, Kaspersky researchers detailed the infections, which use a PowerShell-based backdoor they've named "PowerMagic" and a previously unknown framework dubbed "CommonMagic" that can steal files from USB devices, take screenshots every three seconds, and send all of this data back to the attacker.

Security researchers have discovered attacks from an advanced threat actor that used "a previously unseen malicious framework" called CommonMagic and a new backdoor called PowerMagic. Researchers at cybersecurity company Kaspersky say that the hackers are interested in collecting data from victims in Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea.

Last year, a U.S. federal agency's Microsoft Internet Information Services web server was hacked by exploiting a critical. According to a joint advisory issued today by CISA, the FBI, and MS-ISAC, the attackers had access to the server between November 2022 and early January 2023 based on indicators of compromise found on the unnamed federal civilian executive branch agency's network.

An ongoing hacking campaign called 'Hiatus' targets DrayTek Vigor router models 2960 and 3900 to steal data from victims and build a covert proxy network. DrayTek Vigor devices are business-class VPN routers used by small to medium-size organizations for remote connectivity to corporate networks.

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.

A Russia-linked threat actor has been observed deploying a new information-stealing malware in cyber attacks targeting Ukraine. Dubbed Graphiron by Broadcom-owned Symantec, the malware is the handiwork of an espionage group known as Nodaria, which is tracked by the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine as UAC-0056.

Miscreants using malicious OAuth applications abused Microsoft's "Verified publisher" status to gain access to organizations' cloud environments, then steal data and pry into to users' mailboxes, calendars, and meetings. According to researchers with Proofpoint, which uncovered the campaign in early December, hijacking the "Verified publisher" status enabled the cybercriminals to satisfy some of Microsoft's requirements for distributing OAuth applications.

T-Mobile US today said someone abused an API to download the personal information of 37 million subscribers. A regulatory filing [PDF] disclosed one or more miscreants were able to access potentially the "Name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, T-Mobile account number and information such as the number of lines on the account and plan features" of each affected customer.

T-Mobile disclosed a new data breach after a threat actor stole the personal information of 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts through one of its Application Programming...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the Python Package Index repository that impersonates a software development kit for SentinelOne, a major cybersecurity company, as part of a campaign dubbed SentinelSneak. "The SentinelOne imposter package is just the latest threat to leverage the PyPI repository and underscores the growing threat to software supply chains, as malicious actors use strategies like 'typosquatting' to exploit developer confusion and push malicious code into development pipelines and legitimate applications," ReversingLabs threat researcher Karlo Zanki said in a report shared with The Hacker News.