May 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware Government, aviation, education, and telecom sectors located in South and Southeast Asia have come under the radar of a new hacking group as part of a highly-targeted campaign that commenced in mid-2022 and continued into the first quarter of 2023. Symantec, by Broadcom Software, is tracking the activity under its … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover Powerful Backdoor and Custom Implant in Year-Long Cyber Campaign
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Meta Takes Down Malware Campaign That Used ChatGPT as a Lure to Steal Accounts
May 04, 2023Ravie LakshmananOnline Security / ChatGPT Meta said it took steps to take down more than 1,000 malicious URLs from being shared across its services that were found to leverage OpenAI's ChatGPT as a lure to propagate about 10 malware families since March 2023. The development comes against the backdrop of fake ChatGPT web browser extensions being increasingly used … [Read more...] about Meta Takes Down Malware Campaign That Used ChatGPT as a Lure to Steal Accounts
Over 1 Million WordPress Sites Infected by Balada Injector Malware Campaign
Apr 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananWeb Security / Malware Over one million WordPress websites are estimated to have been infected by an ongoing campaign to deploy malware called Balada Injector since 2017. The massive campaign, per GoDaddy's Sucuri, "leverages all known and recently discovered theme and plugin vulnerabilities" to breach WordPress sites. The attacks are known to play … [Read more...] about Over 1 Million WordPress Sites Infected by Balada Injector Malware Campaign
Hackers Using CAPTCHA Bypass Tactics in Freejacking Campaign on GitHub
Jan 06, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / GitHub A South Africa-based threat actor known as Automated Libra has been observed employing CAPTCHA bypass techniques to create GitHub accounts in a programmatic fashion as part of a freejacking campaign dubbed PURPLEURCHIN. The group "primarily targets cloud platforms offering limited-time trials of cloud resources in order to … [Read more...] about Hackers Using CAPTCHA Bypass Tactics in Freejacking Campaign on GitHub
New Malvertising Campaign via Google Ads Targets Users Searching for Popular Software
Dec 29, 2022Ravie LakshmananOnline Security / Malvertising Users searching for popular software are being targeted by a new malvertising campaign that abuses Google Ads to serve trojanized variants that deploy malware, such as Raccoon Stealer and Vidar. The activity makes use of seemingly credible websites with typosquatted domain names that are surfaced on top of Google … [Read more...] about New Malvertising Campaign via Google Ads Targets Users Searching for Popular Software
Researchers Detail New Malware Campaign Targeting Indian Government Employees
The Transparent Tribe threat actor has been linked to a new campaign aimed at Indian government organizations with trojanized versions of a two-factor authentication solution called Kavach. "This group abuses Google advertisements for the purpose of malvertising to distribute backdoored versions of Kavach multi-authentication (MFA) applications," Zscaler ThreatLabz researcher … [Read more...] about Researchers Detail New Malware Campaign Targeting Indian Government Employees
Researchers Uncover Years-Long Mobile Spyware Campaign Targeting Uyghurs
A new wave of a mobile surveillance campaign has been observed targeting the Uyghur community as part of a long-standing spyware operation active since at least 2015, cybersecurity researchers disclosed Thursday. The intrusions, originally attributed to a threat actor named Scarlet Mimic back in January 2016, is said to have encompassed 20 different variants of the Android … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover Years-Long Mobile Spyware Campaign Targeting Uyghurs
New Grandoreiro Banking Malware Campaign Targeting Spanish Manufacturers
Organizations in the Spanish-speaking nations of Mexico and Spain are in the crosshairs of a new campaign designed to deliver the Grandoreiro banking trojan. "In this campaign, the threat actors impersonate government officials from the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City and from the Public Ministry in the form of spear-phishing emails in order to lure victims to … [Read more...] about New Grandoreiro Banking Malware Campaign Targeting Spanish Manufacturers
Researchers Expose Mars Stealer Malware Campaign Using Google Ads to Spread
A nascent information stealer called Mars has been observed in campaigns that take advantage of cracked versions of the malware to steal information stored in web browsers and cryptocurrency wallets. "Mars Stealer is being distributed via social engineering techniques, malspam campaigns, malicious software cracks, and keygens," Morphisec malware researcher Arnold Osipov said in … [Read more...] about Researchers Expose Mars Stealer Malware Campaign Using Google Ads to Spread
OverWatch Uncovers Ongoing NIGHT SPIDER Zloader Campaign
Over recent months, the CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch™ team has tracked an ongoing, widespread intrusion campaign leveraging bundled .msi installers to trick victims into downloading malicious payloads alongside legitimate software. These payloads and scripts were used to perform reconnaissance and ultimately download and execute NIGHT SPIDER’s Zloader trojan, as detailed in … [Read more...] about OverWatch Uncovers Ongoing NIGHT SPIDER Zloader Campaign