Microsoft Kills 18 Azure Accounts Tied to Nation-State Attacks

An APT group has started heavily relying on cloud services like Azure Active Directory and OneDrive, as well as open-source tools, to obfuscate its attacks. Continue reading Microsoft Kills 18 Azure Accounts Tied to Nation-State Attacks

Microsoft Kills 18 Azure Accounts Tied to Nation-State Attacks

An APT group has started heavily relying on cloud services like Azure Active Directory and OneDrive, as well as open-source tools, to obfuscate its attacks. Continue reading Microsoft Kills 18 Azure Accounts Tied to Nation-State Attacks

Widespread Email Scam Targets Github Developers with Dimnie Trojan

Open source developers who use the popular code-sharing site GitHub were put on alert after the discovery of a phishing email campaign that attempts to infect their computers with an advanced malware trojan.

Dubbed Dimnie, the reconnaissance and espio… Continue reading Widespread Email Scam Targets Github Developers with Dimnie Trojan

Warning: Beware of Post-Election Phishing Emails Targeting NGOs and Think Tanks

Just a few hours after Donald Trump won the 2016 US Presidential Election, a hacking group launched a wave of cyber attacks targeting U.S.-based policy think-tanks with a new spear phishing campaign designed to fool victims into installing malware.

Th… Continue reading Warning: Beware of Post-Election Phishing Emails Targeting NGOs and Think Tanks

PLATINUM Hackers Hijack Windows Hotpatching to Stay Hidden

In Brief
The Microsoft’s Windows Defender Advanced Threat Hunting team detected that a cyber espionage group of hackers, known as PLATINUM, has found a way to turn the Windows’s Hotpatching technique (a way of updating the operating system without requiring a restart) to hide its malware from Antivirus products.

PLATINUM group has been active since 2009 and launching large-scale attacks

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