A new wave of a mobile surveillance campaign has been observed targeting the Uyghur community as part of a long-standing spyware operation active since at least 2015, cybersecurity researchers disclosed Thursday. The intrusions, originally attributed to a threat actor named Scarlet Mimic back in January 2016, is said to have encompassed 20 different variants of the Android … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover Years-Long Mobile Spyware Campaign Targeting Uyghurs
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Researchers Uncover UEFI Secure Boot Bypass in 3 Microsoft Signed Boot Loaders
A security feature bypass vulnerability has been uncovered in three signed third-party Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot loaders that allow bypass of the UEFI Secure Boot feature. "These vulnerabilities can be exploited by mounting the EFI System Partition and replacing the existing bootloader with the vulnerable one, or modifying a UEFI variable to load the … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover UEFI Secure Boot Bypass in 3 Microsoft Signed Boot Loaders
Researchers Uncover Malicious NPM Packages Stealing Data from Apps and Web Forms
A widespread software supply chain attack has targeted the NPM package manager at least since December 2021 with rogue modules designed to steal data entered in forms by users on websites that include them. The coordinated attack, dubbed IconBurst by ReversingLabs, involves no fewer than two dozen NPM packages that include obfuscated JavaScript, which comes with malicious code … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover Malicious NPM Packages Stealing Data from Apps and Web Forms
Researchers Uncover Ways to Break the Encryption of ‘MEGA’ Cloud Storage Service
A new piece of research from academics at ETH Zurich has identified a number of critical security issues in the MEGA cloud storage service that could be leveraged to break the confidentiality and integrity of user data. In a paper titled "MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry," the researchers point out how MEGA's system does not protect its users against a malicious server, … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover Ways to Break the Encryption of ‘MEGA’ Cloud Storage Service
Chinese Experts Uncover Details of Equation Group’s Bvp47 Covert Hacking Tool
Researchers from China's Pangu Lab have disclosed details of a "top-tier" backdoor put to use by the Equation Group, an advanced persistent threat (APT) with alleged ties to the cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Dubbed "Bvp47" owing to numerous references to the string "Bvp" and the numerical value "0x47" used in the … [Read more...] about Chinese Experts Uncover Details of Equation Group’s Bvp47 Covert Hacking Tool
Researchers Uncover Hacker Group Behind Organized Financial-Theft Operation
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps of an organized financial-theft operation undertaken by a discreet actor to target transaction processing systems and siphon funds from entities primarily located in Latin America for at least four years. The malicious hacking group has been codenamed Elephant Beetle by Israeli incident response firm Sygnia, with the intrusions … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover Hacker Group Behind Organized Financial-Theft Operation
Researchers Uncover New Coexistence Attacks On Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Chips
Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new attack technique that makes it possible to leverage a device's Bluetooth component to directly extract network passwords and manipulate traffic on a Wi-Fi chip. The novel attacks work against the so-called "combo chips," which are specialized chips that are equipped to handle different types of radio wave-based wireless … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover New Coexistence Attacks On Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Chips
Researchers Uncover Hacker-for-Hire Group That’s Active Since 2015
A new cyber mercenary hacker-for-hire group dubbed "Void Balaur" has been linked to a string of cyberespionage and data theft activities targeting thousands of entities as well as human rights activists, politicians, and government officials around the world at least since 2015 for financial gain while lurking in the shadows. Named after a many-headed dragon from Romanian … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover Hacker-for-Hire Group That’s Active Since 2015
Experts Uncover Several C&C Servers Linked to WellMess Malware
Cybersecurity researchers on Friday unmasked new command-and-control (C2) infrastructure belonging to the Russian threat actor tracked as APT29, aka Cozy Bear, that has been spotted actively serving WellMess malware as part of an ongoing attack campaign. More than 30 C2 servers operated by the Russian foreign intelligence have been uncovered, Microsoft-owned cybersecurity … [Read more...] about Experts Uncover Several C&C Servers Linked to WellMess Malware
Researchers Uncover Iranian State-Sponsored Ransomware Operation
Iran has been linked to yet another state-sponsored ransomware operation through a contracting company based in the country, according to new analysis. "Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was operating a state-sponsored ransomware campaign through an Iranian contracting company called 'Emen Net Pasargard' (ENP)," cybersecurity firm Flashpoint said in its findings … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover Iranian State-Sponsored Ransomware Operation