Blind Eagle Targets Colombian Insurance Sector with Customized Quasar RAT https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/zscaler.png Sep 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananFinancial Security / Malware The Colombian insurance sector is the target of a threat actor tracked as Blind Eagle with the end goal of delivering a customized version of a known commodity remote access trojan (RAT) referred to as Quasar RAT since June 2024. “Attacks have ...
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One More Tool Will Do It? Reflecting on the CrowdStrike Fallout
One More Tool Will Do It? Reflecting on the CrowdStrike Fallout https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/one.png Sep 09, 2024The Hacker NewsData Protection / Threat Detection The proliferation of cybersecurity tools has created an illusion of security. Organizations often believe that by deploying a firewall, antivirus software, intrusion detection systems, identity threat detection and response, and other tools, they are adequately protected. However, this approach ...
Read More »New RAMBO Attack Uses RAM Radio Signals to Steal Data from Air-Gapped Networks
New RAMBO Attack Uses RAM Radio Signals to Steal Data from Air-Gapped Networks https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/airgap.png Sep 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Hardware Security A novel side-channel attack has been found to leverage radio signals emanated by a device’s random access memory (RAM) as a data exfiltration mechanism, posing a threat to air-gapped networks. The technique has been codenamed RAMBO by Dr. Mordechai ...
Read More »GeoServer Vulnerability Targeted by Hackers to Deliver Backdoors and Botnet Malware
GeoServer Vulnerability Targeted by Hackers to Deliver Backdoors and Botnet Malware https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/jeo.jpg Sep 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / APT Attack A recently disclosed security flaw in OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools has been exploited as part of multiple campaigns to deliver cryptocurrency miners, botnet malware such as Condi and JenX, and a known backdoor called SideWalk. The security vulnerability is a critical remote ...
Read More »SonicWall Urges Users to Patch Critical Firewall Flaw Amid Possible Exploitation
SonicWall Urges Users to Patch Critical Firewall Flaw Amid Possible Exploitation https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/sonic.jpg Sep 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Threat Detection SonicWall has revealed that a recently patched critical security flaw impacting SonicOS may have come under active exploitation, making it essential that users apply the patches as soon as possible. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-40766, carries a CVSS score of ...
Read More »FBI Cracks Down on Dark Web Marketplace Managed by Russian and Kazakh Nationals
FBI Cracks Down on Dark Web Marketplace Managed by Russian and Kazakh Nationals https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/lock.jpg Sep 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Dark Web Two men have been indicted in the U.S. for their alleged involvement in managing a dark web marketplace called WWH Club that specializes in the sale of sensitive personal and financial information. Alex Khodyrev, a 35-year-old Kazakhstan national, and ...
Read More »North Korean Threat Actors Deploy COVERTCATCH Malware via LinkedIn Job Scams
North Korean Threat Actors Deploy COVERTCATCH Malware via LinkedIn Job Scams https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/korea.jpg Sep 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Security / Malware Threat actors affiliated with North Korea have been observed leveraging LinkedIn as a way to target developers as part of a fake job recruiting operation. These attacks employ coding tests as a common initial infection vector, Google-owned Mandiant said in a ...
Read More »Clearview AI fined by Dutch agency for facial recognition database – ET CISO
Clearview AI fined by Dutch agency for facial recognition database – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-113051010,imgsize-8792,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/data-breaches/clearview-ai-fined-by-dutch-agency-for-facial-recognition-database.jpg U.S. facial recognition company Clearview AI has been fined 30.5 million euros ($33.7 million) for building what Dutch data protection watchdog DPA said on Tuesday was an illegal database. DPA also issued an additional order, imposing a penalty of up to 5 million euros on Clearview ...
Read More »New Cross-Platform Malware KTLVdoor Discovered in Attack on Chinese Trading Firm
New Cross-Platform Malware KTLVdoor Discovered in Attack on Chinese Trading Firm https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/chinesehackerz.jpg Sep 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Malware The Chinese-speaking threat actor known as Earth Lusca has been observed using a new backdoor dubbed KTLVdoor as part of a cyber attack targeting an unnamed trading company based in China. The previously unreported malware is written in Golang, and thus ...
Read More »New Rust-Based Ransomware Cicada3301 Targets Windows and Linux Systems
New Rust-Based Ransomware Cicada3301 Targets Windows and Linux Systems https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/linux.png Sep 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked the inner workings of a new ransomware variant called Cicada3301 that shares similarities with the now-defunct BlackCat (aka ALPHV) operation. “It appears that Cicada3301 ransomware primarily targets small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), likely through opportunistic attacks that exploit vulnerabilities ...
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