Dec 27, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cyber Espionage North Korean threat actors behind the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign have been observed dropping a new JavaScript malware called OtterCookie. Contagious Interview (aka DeceptiveDevelopment) refers to a persistent attack campaign that employs social engineering lures, with the hacking crew often posing as … [Read more...] about North Korean Hackers Deploy OtterCookie Malware in Contagious Interview Campaign
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Brazilian Hacker Charged for Extorting $3.2M in Bitcoin After Breaching 300,000 Accounts
Dec 26, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Ransomware A Brazilian citizen has been charged in the United States for allegedly threatening to release data stolen by hacking into a company's network in March 2020. Junior Barros De Oliveira, 29, of Curitiba, Brazil has been charged with four counts of extortionate threats involving information obtained from protected computers and … [Read more...] about Brazilian Hacker Charged for Extorting $3.2M in Bitcoin After Breaching 300,000 Accounts
Ruijie Networks’ Cloud Platform Flaws Could Expose 50,000 Devices to Remote Attacks
Dec 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have discovered several security flaws in the cloud management platform developed by Ruijie Networks that could permit an attacker to take control of the network appliances. "These vulnerabilities affect both the Reyee platform, as well as Reyee OS network devices," Claroty researchers Noam … [Read more...] about Ruijie Networks’ Cloud Platform Flaws Could Expose 50,000 Devices to Remote Attacks
Researchers Uncover PyPI Packages Stealing Keystrokes and Hijacking Social Accounts
Dec 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Data Exfiltration Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two malicious packages that were uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository and came fitted with capabilities to exfiltrate sensitive information from compromised hosts, according to new findings from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs. The packages, named zebo and cometlogger, … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover PyPI Packages Stealing Keystrokes and Hijacking Social Accounts
AI Could Generate 10,000 Malware Variants, Evading Detection in 88% of Case
Dec 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananMachine Learning / Threat Analysis Cybersecurity researchers have found that it's possible to use large language models (LLMs) to generate new variants of malicious JavaScript code at scale in a manner that can better evade detection. "Although LLMs struggle to create malware from scratch, criminals can easily use them to rewrite or obfuscate … [Read more...] about AI Could Generate 10,000 Malware Variants, Evading Detection in 88% of Case
LockBit Developer Rostislav Panev Charged for Billions in Global Ransomware Damages
A dual Russian and Israeli national has been charged in the United States for allegedly being the developer of the now-defunct LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation since its inception in or around 2019 through at least February 2024. Rostislav Panev, 51, was arrested in Israel earlier this August and is currently awaiting extradition, the U.S. Department of Justice … [Read more...] about LockBit Developer Rostislav Panev Charged for Billions in Global Ransomware Damages
Lazarus Group Spotted Targeting Nuclear Engineers with CookiePlus Malware
The Lazarus Group, an infamous threat actor linked to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has been observed leveraging a "complex infection chain" targeting at least two employees belonging to an unnamed nuclear-related organization within the span of one month in January 2024. The attacks, which culminated in the deployment of a new modular backdoor referred to … [Read more...] about Lazarus Group Spotted Targeting Nuclear Engineers with CookiePlus Malware
Rspack npm Packages Compromised with Crypto Mining Malware in Supply Chain Attack
Dec 20, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Supply Chain Attack The developers of Rspack have revealed that two of their npm packages, @rspack/core and @rspack/cli, were compromised in a software supply chain attack that allowed a malicious actor to publish malicious versions to the official package registry with cryptocurrency mining malware. Following the discovery, versions … [Read more...] about Rspack npm Packages Compromised with Crypto Mining Malware in Supply Chain Attack
Thousands Download Malicious npm Libraries Impersonating Legitimate Tools
Dec 19, 2024Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Software Security Threat actors have been observed uploading malicious typosquats of legitimate npm packages such as typescript-eslint and @types/node that have racked up thousands of downloads on the package registry. The counterfeit versions, named @typescript_eslinter/eslint and types-node, are engineered to download a trojan and … [Read more...] about Thousands Download Malicious npm Libraries Impersonating Legitimate Tools
HubPhish Exploits HubSpot Tools to Target 20,000 European Users for Credential Theft
Dec 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new phishing campaign that has targeted European companies with an aim to harvest account credentials and take control of the victims' Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. The campaign has been codenamed HubPhish by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 owing to the abuse of HubSpot … [Read more...] about HubPhish Exploits HubSpot Tools to Target 20,000 European Users for Credential Theft