PlugX Trojan Disguised as Legitimate Windows Debugger Tool in Latest Attacks
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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
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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
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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...
Chinese Tonto Team Hackers’ Second Attempt to Target Cybersecurity Firm Group-IB Fails
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Feb 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat Intelligence
The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Tonto Team carried out an unsuccessful attack on cybersecurity company Group-IB in June 2022.
The Singapore-headquartered...
New ESXiArgs Ransomware Variant Emerges After CISA Releases Decryptor Tool
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Feb 11, 2023Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Endpoint Security
After the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a decryptor for affected victims to recover from ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, the...
Researchers Uncover Obfuscated Malicious Code in PyPI Python Packages
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Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Software Security
Four different rogue packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) have been found to carry out a number of malicious actions,...
Gootkit Malware Adopts New Tactics to Attack Healthcare and Finance Firms
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Feb 09, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Malware
The Gootkit malware is prominently going after healthcare and finance organizations in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, according to new findings from...
Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Linked to Ryuk Ransomware
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Feb 08, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Endpoint Security
A Russian national on February 7, 2023, pleaded guilty in the U.S. to money laundering charges and for attempting to conceal the...
VMware Finds No Evidence of 0-Day in Ongoing ESXiArgs Ransomware Spree
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Feb 07, 2023Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Zero-Day
VMware on Monday said it found no evidence that threat actors are leveraging an unknown security flaw, i.e., a zero-day, in its...
Linux Variant of Clop Ransomware Spotted, But Uses Faulty Encryption Algorithm
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Feb 07, 2023Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Linux
The first-ever Linux variant of the Clop ransomware has been detected in the wild, but with a faulty encryption algorithm that has made...