Hackers Possibly From China Using New Method to Deploy Persistent ESXi Backdoors

Hackers possibly from China have been using a new technique to install persistent backdoors in VMware ESXi hypervisors, giving them significant capabilities while making detection more difficult.
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Kaiji Botnet Successor ‘Chaos’ Targeting Linux, Windows Systems

Black Lotus Labs, Lumen Technologies’ threat intelligence team, has issued a warning on Chaos, the new variant of the Kaiji distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet, targeting enterprises and large organizations.
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Researchers Crowdsourcing Effort to Identify Mysterious Metador APT

Cybersecurity sleuths at SentinelLabs are calling on the wider threat hunting community to help decipher a new mysterious malware campaign hitting telcos, ISPs and universities in the Middle East and Africa.
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New Infostealer Malware ‘Erbium’ Offered as MaaS for Thousands of Dollars

Security researchers are warning of a new information stealer named Erbium being distributed under the Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) model.
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Ukraine Says Russia Planning ‘Massive Cyberattacks’ on Critical Infrastructure

The Ukrainian government says it is bracing to deal with “massive cyberattacks” from Russian hackers against critical infrastructure targets in the energy sector.
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CrowdStrike to Buy Reposify, Invests in Salt Security

Endpoint detection and response pioneer CrowdStrike is elbowing its way into new security markets with a planned acquisition of attack surface management startup Reposify and a strategic investment in API security vendor Salt Security.
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Uber Confirms Hacker Accessed Internal Tools, Bug Bounty Dashboard

Ride-hailing giant Uber is moving quickly to downplay the impact from a devastating security breach that included the theft of employee credentials, access to the HackerOne bug bounty dashboard and data from an internal invoicing tool.
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SOC Infrastructure Firm Cyrebro Raises $40 Million

Security Operations Center (SOC) infrastructure start-up Cyrebro this week announced that it has banked $40 million in Series C funding, bringing the total raised by the company to $61 million.
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