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The National Security Agency (NSA) and Five Eyes partner agencies have identified indicators of compromise associated with a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actor dubbed Volt Typhoon, which is using living off the land techniques… Continue reading Five Eyes agencies detail how Chinese hackers breached US infrastructure
The US Justice Department announced the completion of court-authorized operation MEDUSA, to disrupt a global peer-to-peer network of computers compromised by sophisticated malware, called “Snake” (aka “Uroburos”), that the US Government att… Continue reading Turla’s Snake malware network disrupted by Five Eyes’ authorities
Pieces of the 3CX supply chain compromise puzzle are starting to fall into place, though we’re still far away from seeing the complete picture. In the meantime, we now also know that: The source of the 3CX breach was a compromised installer for X… Continue reading 3CX breach linked to previous supply chain compromise
3CX has released an interim report about Mandiant’s findings related to the compromise the company suffered last month, which resulted in a supply chain attack targeting cryptocurrency companies. They discovered that: The attackers infected targe… Continue reading 3CX compromise: More details about the breach, new PWA app released
Five days have passed since the supply chain attack targeting 3CX customers gained wider public attention, but the software’s manufacturer is yet to confirm how the Windows and macOS desktop apps (based on the Electron software framework) have be… Continue reading 3CX supply chain attack: What do we know?
Suspected state-sponsored threat actors have trojanized the official Windows desktop app of the widely used 3CX softphone solution, a number of cybersecurity companies began warning on Wednesday. What is 3CX? 3CX is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) … Continue reading 3CX customers targeted via trojanized desktop app
Malicious threat actors have actively exploited 55 zero-days in 2022 – down from 81 in 2021 – with Microsoft, Google, and Apple products being most targeted. 53 out of 55 allowed attackers to achieve elevated privileges or execute remote co… Continue reading 2022 witnessed a drop in exploited zero-days
It’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft has delivered fixes for 74 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited in the wild (CVE-2023-23397, CVE-2023-24880) by different threat actors. About CVE-2023-23397 “CVE-2023-2… Continue reading Microsoft patches zero-days used by state-sponsored and ransomware threat actors (CVE-2023-23397, CVE-2023-24880)
ESET researchers have discovered yet another wiper malware used to target Ukrainian organizations. Dubbed SwiftSlicer, it is thought to be wielded by the Sandworm APT. Simultaneously, the Ukranian CERT has confirmed that the attackers who recently aime… Continue reading A glut of wiper malware hits Ukrainian targets
As cyberattacks have grown increasingly destructive, nations are entertaining the idea of responding to them with conventional military forces. It is difficult to determine how serious countries are when they threaten “kinetic” responses to digital att… Continue reading Will cyber saber-rattling drive us to destruction?