The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) announced on Tuesday that it halted a cyberattack on an unnamed Ukrainian energy company by Sandworm, a hacking group affiliated with Russia's military intelligence. SSSCIP said that the at ...
The FBI and Europol seize the RaidForums Hacker Forum and arrest the administrators
The investigation led to the taking down of RaidForums, one of the largest hacking forums known for selling hacked personal information belonging to users. Last month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum, dubbed Tourniquet, was arrested at h ...
VMware Issues Patches for Critical Flaws Affecting Carbon Black App Control
VMware on Wednesday released software updates to plug two critical security vulnerabilities affecting its Carbon Black App Control platform that could be abused by a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code on affected installations in Windows syste ...
Over 200 Malicious NPM Packages Caught Targeting Azure Developers
A new large scale supply chain attack has been observed targeting Azure developers with no less than 218 malicious NPM packages with the goal of stealing personal identifiable information. "After manually inspecting some of these packages, it beca ...
DirtyMoe Botnet Gains New Exploits in Wormable Module to Spread Rapidly
The malware known as DirtyMoe has gained new worm-like propagation capabilities that allow it to expand its reach without requiring any user interaction, the latest research has found. "The worming module targets older well-known vulnerabilities, ...
Ukraine Secret Service Arrests Hacker Helping Russian Invaders
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said it has detained a "hacker" who offered technical assistance to the invading Russian troops by providing mobile communication services inside the Ukrainian territory. The anonymous suspect is said to have ...
Iranian Hackers Targeting Turkey and Arabian Peninsula in New Malware Campaign
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new swarm of attacks targeting Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula with the goal of deploying remote access trojans (RATs) on compromised systems. "The MuddyWater s ...
Researchers Find New Evidence Linking Kwampirs Malware to Shamoon APT Hackers
New findings released last week showcase the overlapping source code and techniques between the operators of Shamoon and Kwampirs, indicating that they "are the same group or really close collaborators." "Research evidence shows identification of ...
New Linux Bug in Netfilter Firewall Module Lets Attackers Gain Root Access
A newly disclosed security flaw in the Linux kernel could be leveraged by a local adversary to gain elevated privileges on vulnerable systems to execute arbitrary code, escape containers, or induce a kernel panic. Tracked as CVE-2022-25636 (CVSS s ...
CaddyWiper: Yet Another Data Wiping Malware Targeting Ukrainian Networks
Two weeks after details emerged about a second data wiper strain delivered in attacks against Ukraine, yet another destructive malware has been detected amid Russia's continuing military invasion of the country. Slovak cybersecurity company ESET d ...