Realtek Vulnerability Under Attack: Over 134 Million Attempts to Hack IoT Devices

Realtek Vulnerability Under Attack: Over 134 Million Attempts to Hack IoT Devices,

Researchers are warning about a spike in exploitation attempts weaponizing a critical remote code execution flaw in Realtek Jungle SDK since the start of August 2022.
According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the ongoing campaign is said to have recorded 134 million exploit attempts as of December 2022, with 97% of the attacks occurring in the past four months.
Close to 50% of the attacks

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Researchers are warning about a spike in exploitation attempts weaponizing a critical remote code execution flaw in Realtek Jungle SDK since the start of August 2022.
According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the ongoing campaign is said to have recorded 134 million exploit attempts as of December 2022, with 97% of the attacks occurring in the past four months.
Close to 50% of the attacks

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https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/realtek-vulnerability-under-attack-134.html

Gootkit Malware Continues to Evolve with New Components and Obfuscations

Gootkit Malware Continues to Evolve with New Components and Obfuscations,

The threat actors associated with the Gootkit malware have made « notable changes » to their toolset, adding new components and obfuscations to their infection chains.
Google-owned Mandiant is monitoring the activity cluster under the moniker UNC2565, noting that the usage of the malware is « exclusive to this group. »
Gootkit, also called Gootloader, is spread through compromised websites that

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The threat actors associated with the Gootkit malware have made « notable changes » to their toolset, adding new components and obfuscations to their infection chains.
Google-owned Mandiant is monitoring the activity cluster under the moniker UNC2565, noting that the usage of the malware is « exclusive to this group. »
Gootkit, also called Gootloader, is spread through compromised websites that

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https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/gootkit-malware-continues-to-evolve.html

Microsoft Urges Customers to Secure On-Premises Exchange Servers

Microsoft Urges Customers to Secure On-Premises Exchange Servers,

Microsoft is urging customers to keep their Exchange servers updated as well as take steps to bolster the environment, such as enabling Windows Extended Protection and configuring certificate-based signing of PowerShell serialization payloads.
« Attackers looking to exploit unpatched Exchange servers are not going to go away, » the tech giant’s Exchange Team said in a post. « There are too many

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Microsoft is urging customers to keep their Exchange servers updated as well as take steps to bolster the environment, such as enabling Windows Extended Protection and configuring certificate-based signing of PowerShell serialization payloads.
« Attackers looking to exploit unpatched Exchange servers are not going to go away, » the tech giant’s Exchange Team said in a post. « There are too many

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https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/microsoft-urges-customers-to-secure-on.html

Eliminating SaaS Shadow IT is Now Available via a Self-Service Product, Free of Charge

Eliminating SaaS Shadow IT is Now Available via a Self-Service Product, Free of Charge,

The use of software as a service (SaaS) is experiencing rapid growth and shows no signs of slowing down. Its decentralized and easy-to-use nature is beneficial for increasing employee productivity, but it also poses many security and IT challenges. Keeping track of all the SaaS applications that have been granted access to an organization’s data is a difficult task. Understanding the risks that

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The use of software as a service (SaaS) is experiencing rapid growth and shows no signs of slowing down. Its decentralized and easy-to-use nature is beneficial for increasing employee productivity, but it also poses many security and IT challenges. Keeping track of all the SaaS applications that have been granted access to an organization’s data is a difficult task. Understanding the risks that

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https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/eliminating-saas-shadow-it-is-now.html

ISC Releases Security Patches for New BIND DNS Software Vulnerabilities

ISC Releases Security Patches for New BIND DNS Software Vulnerabilities,

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released patches to address multiple security vulnerabilities in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9 Domain Name System (DNS) software suite that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.
« A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to potentially cause denial-of-service conditions and system failures, » the U.S. Cybersecurity

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The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released patches to address multiple security vulnerabilities in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9 Domain Name System (DNS) software suite that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.
« A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to potentially cause denial-of-service conditions and system failures, » the U.S. Cybersecurity

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https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/isc-releases-security-patches-for-new.html

Ukraine Hit with New Golang-based ‘SwiftSlicer’ Wiper Malware in Latest Cyber Attack

Ukraine Hit with New Golang-based ‘SwiftSlicer’ Wiper Malware in Latest Cyber Attack

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Ukraine has come under a fresh cyber onslaught from Russia that involved the deployment of a previously undocumented Golang-based data wiper dubbed SwiftSlicer.
ESET attributed the attack to Sandworm, a nation-state group linked to Military Unit 74455 of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU).
« Once executed it deletes shadow

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Ukraine has come under a fresh cyber onslaught from Russia that involved the deployment of a previously undocumented Golang-based data wiper dubbed SwiftSlicer.
ESET attributed the attack to Sandworm, a nation-state group linked to Military Unit 74455 of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU).
« Once executed it deletes shadow

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https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/ukraine-hit-with-new-golang-based.html

Experts Uncover the Identity of Mastermind Behind Golden Chickens Malware Service

Experts Uncover the Identity of Mastermind Behind Golden Chickens Malware Service,

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered the real-world identity of the threat actor behind Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service, who goes by the online persona « badbullzvenom. »
eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU), in an exhaustive report published following a 16-month-long investigation, said it « found multiple mentions of the badbullzvenom account being shared between two people. »
The

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered the real-world identity of the threat actor behind Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service, who goes by the online persona « badbullzvenom. »
eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU), in an exhaustive report published following a 16-month-long investigation, said it « found multiple mentions of the badbullzvenom account being shared between two people. »
The

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https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/experts-uncover-identity-of-mastermind.html

Researchers Discover New PlugX Malware Variant Spreading via Removable USB Devices

Researchers Discover New PlugX Malware Variant Spreading via Removable USB Devices,

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a PlugX sample that employs sneaky methods to infect attached removable USB media devices in order to propagate the malware to additional systems.
« This PlugX variant is wormable and infects USB devices in such a way that it conceals itself from the Windows operating file system, » Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers Mike Harbison and Jen Miller-Osborn 

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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a PlugX sample that employs sneaky methods to infect attached removable USB media devices in order to propagate the malware to additional systems.
« This PlugX variant is wormable and infects USB devices in such a way that it conceals itself from the Windows operating file system, » Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers Mike Harbison and Jen Miller-Osborn 

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https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/researchers-discover-new-plugx-malware.html

3 Lifehacks While Analyzing Orcus RAT in a Malware Sandbox

3 Lifehacks While Analyzing Orcus RAT in a Malware Sandbox,

Orcus is a Remote Access Trojan with some distinctive characteristics. The RAT allows attackers to create plugins and offers a robust core feature set that makes it quite a dangerous malicious program in its class.
RAT is quite a stable type that always makes it to the top.
ANY.RUN’s top malware types in 2022
That’s why you’ll definitely come across this type in your practice, and the Orcus

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Orcus is a Remote Access Trojan with some distinctive characteristics. The RAT allows attackers to create plugins and offers a robust core feature set that makes it quite a dangerous malicious program in its class.
RAT is quite a stable type that always makes it to the top.
ANY.RUN’s top malware types in 2022
That’s why you’ll definitely come across this type in your practice, and the Orcus

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https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/3-lifehacks-while-analyzing-orcus-rat.html

British Cyber Agency Warns of Russian and Iranian Hackers Targeting Key Industries

British Cyber Agency Warns of Russian and Iranian Hackers Targeting Key Industries,

The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on Thursday warned of spear-phishing attacks mounted by Russian and Iranian state-sponsored actors for information-gathering operations.
« The attacks are not aimed at the general public but targets in specified sectors, including academia, defense, government organizations, NGOs, think tanks, as well as politicians, journalists and activists, » the

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The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on Thursday warned of spear-phishing attacks mounted by Russian and Iranian state-sponsored actors for information-gathering operations.
« The attacks are not aimed at the general public but targets in specified sectors, including academia, defense, government organizations, NGOs, think tanks, as well as politicians, journalists and activists, » the

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https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/british-cyber-agency-warns-of-russian.html