Hydrochasma: New Threat Actor Targets Shipping Companies and Medical Labs in Asia
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Expel announces MDR for Kubernetes with MITRE ATT&CK framework alignment
Security operations provider Expel has announced the general availability of Expel managed detection and response (MDR) for Kubernetes. The firm said the product enables customers to secure their business...
DeFi exploits and access control hacks cost crypto investors billions in 2022: Report
Cyber criminals used a variety of novel ways to carry out hacks and exploits in 2022, with over $2.8 billion of cryptocurrency stolen last year.According to a report from...
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...
