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Hackers are using a brand new tool to disable antivirus programs installed on devices, before deploying more dubious malware, and sometimes even ransomware, researchers have warned. Cybersecurity researchers from Sophos X-Ops recently observed threat actors using the Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) method to deploy a tool called AuKill, capable of disabling security programs. […]
Russian state-sponsored threat actors have built custom malware and are using it against old, unpatched Cisco IOS routers (opens in new tab), a joint US-UK report has warned. The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) […]
Cybersecurity researchers from Infoblox’s Threat Intelligence Group have found a new remote access trojan (RAT) lurking in corporate networks around the world and claim it’s been operating in secret for roughly a year. The researchers named the RAT Pupy, and were able to trace its toolkit back to Russia, and now believe a state-sponsored attacker […]
Researchers from SentinelLabs have uncovered a new toolkit cybercriminals are using to breach email and web hosting (opens in new tab) services. The malware toolkit, called “AlienFox”, is being described as “highly modular” and getting regular updates. Most of the tools in the kit are open source, and with the speed at which it’s being […]
Cybersecurity researchers from Phylum have found a new form of malware in a PyPI package that was using Unicode to hide. Unicode is a global encoding standard used for different languages and scripts, covering more than 100,000 characters, whose goal is to simplify and streamline how characters are viewed in electronic and digital devices. With […]
Microsoft’s OneNote, a note-taking app that’s part of the Office 365 productivity suite, is drawing increasingly more attention to itself, for all the wrong reasons. This follows another report from cybersecurity researchers describing how more and more threat actors are beginning to use the application to deliver malware to unsuspecting victims. This time, researchers from […]
A new malware has been discovered hijacking people’s social media accounts, stealing their saved login credentials, and using their devices to mine cryptocurrencies, experts have warned. Researchers from Bitdefender’s Advanced Threat Control Team (ATC) found a new strain they named S1deload Stealer that tries to avoid being detected by antivirus programs through heavy use of […]
Experts have warned of a new information-stealing malware has been observed circulating around the dark web as it looks to gather new customers and victims alike. Cybersecurity researchers from SEKOIA came across multiple ads, on different underground forums and Telegram groups promoting a new infostealer called Stealc. Apparently, Stealc is not built from scratch, but […]
People with an interest in all things North Korea are being targeted with a very specific malware. Cybersecurity researchers from Trend Micro (opens in new tab) (via BleepingComputer) have recently observed Earth Kitsune, a nascent threat actor, breaching a pro-North Korea website, and then using that site to deliver a backdoor dubbed WhiskerSpy. The malware […]
The days of specialized malware are slowly coming to an end, as modern variants are being designed to be able to do many things and carry as many features as possible, new research has claimed. A report from Picus Security analyzing more than 550,000 real-world samples found that “Swiss Army knife malware” – multi-purpose strains […]
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