Google Reveals Alarming Surge in Russian Cyber Attacks Against Ukraine
By:
Feb 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Analysis / Cyber Attack
Russia's cyber attacks against Ukraine surged by 250% in 2022 when compared to two years ago, Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG)...
Researchers Warn of ReverseRAT Backdoor Targeting Indian Government Agencies
By:
Feb 21, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Cyber Attack
A spear-phishing campaign targeting Indian government entities aims to deploy an updated version of a backdoor called ReverseRAT.
Cybersecurity firm ThreatMon attributed...
Gcore Thwarts Massive 650 Gbps DDoS Attack on Free Plan Client
By:
Feb 22, 2023The Hacker NewsServer Security / DDoS Attack
At the beginning of January, Gcore faced an incident involving several L3/L4 DDoS attacks with a peak volume of 650...
Hydrochasma: New Threat Actor Targets Shipping Companies and Medical Labs in Asia
By:
Feb 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Cyber Attack
Shipping companies and medical laboratories in Asia have been the subject of a suspected espionage campaign carried out by a never-before-seen...
Attackers Flood NPM Repository with Over 15,000 Spam Packages Containing Phishing Links
By:
Feb 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananOpen Source / Supply Chain Attack
In what's a continuing assault on the open source ecosystem, over 15,000 spam packages have flooded the npm repository in...
Lazarus Group Likely Using New WinorDLL64 Backdoor to Exfiltrate Sensitive Data
By:
Feb 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Data Security
A new backdoor associated with a malware downloader named Wslink has been discovered, with the tool likely used by the notorious...
New Hacking Cluster ‘Clasiopa’ Targeting Materials Research Organizations in Asia
By:
Feb 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intel
Materials research organizations in Asia have been targeted by a previously unknown threat actor using a distinct set of tools.
Symantec, by Broadcom...
PlugX Trojan Disguised as Legitimate Windows Debugger Tool in Latest Attacks
By:
Feb 27, 2023Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Attack
The PlugX remote access trojan has been observed masquerading as an open source Windows debugger tool called x64dbg in an attempt to...
Massive HTTP DDoS Attack Hits Record High of 71 Million Requests/Second
By:
Feb 14, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan
Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second...
Chinese Hackers Targeting South American Diplomatic Entities with ShadowPad
By:
Feb 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat Intelligence
Microsoft on Monday attributed a China-based cyber espionage actor to a set of attacks targeting diplomatic entities in South America.
The tech giant's Security...
