There may be a risk of retaliatory activity by threat actors supporting the Russian Federation, against organizations being leveraged to unwittingly conduct disruptive attacks against government, military, and civilian websites.
The Augury vulnerability comes from Apple silicon’s use of a Data Memory-Dependent Prefetcher (DMP) which is an optimization that accounts for the content of previous memory prefetches.
Design-wise, Gobrut has been written in Golang, a programming language very popular among hackers and pen-testers, and employs two IP addresses – one for payload delivery and one to perform various C2 functions.
The Russian hacking group behind the SolarWinds hack, Nobelium, is setting up new infrastructure to launch attacks using old tricks, researchers at Recorded Future found.
The Series B round was led by IVP with participation from BIG Labs, Unusual Ventures, Tiger Global Management, and several undisclosed angel investors. It takes the company’s valuation to $450 million.
Since the include statement was buried deep down into the wp-settings.php file, it was easy to miss on a casual review. Additionally, because the include itself does not follow any malware patterns, it could be missed by malware scanners.
The really interesting thing about all this is that fake fair scams aren’t some weird anomaly. It’s an actual mini cybercrime industry populated by particularly dedicated scammers.
A new report revealed the techniques and tactics of the highly unpredictable attacks by the Lapsus$ gang to target the victims, along with its interest in exploiting SharePoint, VPNs, and VMs. Researchers have observed mass deletion of VMs, storage, and configurations in cloud environments. For remediation, the report suggests various recommendations, including logging for cloud […]
Avanan states that threat actors can utilize Google’s SMTP relay service to spoof other Gmail tenants without being detected, as long as those domains do not have a DMARC policy configured with the ‘reject’ directive.
Bad actors are gaining access to more tools to help them pull off their nefarious deeds – like exploit kits. At the same time, the attack surface has rapidly expanded and continues to do so.