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Phishing campaigns target small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Poland to deliver malware families such as Agent Tesla, Formbook, and Remcos RAT. ESET researchers observed multiple phishing campaigns targeting SMBs in Poland in May 2024, distributing various malware families like Agent Tesla, Formbook, and Remcos RAT. ESET researchers detected nine notable phishing campaigns during May 2024 in Poland, Romania, and Italy. […]

Zscaler researchers revealed that a company paid a record-breaking $75 million ransom to the Dark Angels ransomware group. Zscaler discovered a record-breaking ransom payment of US$75 million made by a company to the Dark Angels ransomware group. Zscaler did not name the company that paid the $75 million ransom following an attack that occurred in […]

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a VMware ESXi bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an authentication bypass VMware ESXi vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-37085 (CVSS score of 6.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week, Microsoft warned that multiple ransomware gangs are […]

A new version of the Mandrake Android spyware has been found in five apps on Google Play, which have been downloaded over 32,000 times since 2022. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a new version of the Mandrake Android spyware in five app on Google Play, totaling over 32,000 downloads between 2022 and 2024. Researchers from Bitdefender […]

The APT group SideWinder launched a new espionage campaign targeting ports and maritime facilities in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. SideWinder (also known as Razor Tiger, Rattlesnake, and T-APT-04) has been active since at least 2012, the group mainly targeted Police, Military, Maritime, and the Naval forces of Central Asian countries. In the 2022 […]

Researchers detected a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting Microsoft OneDrive users to trick them into executing a PowerShell script. Over the past few weeks, the Trellix Advanced Research Center observed a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting Microsoft OneDrive users. Threat actors rely on social engineering tactics to trick users into executing a PowerShell script, which leads to […]

Microsoft warns that ransomware gangs are exploiting the recently patched CVE-2024-37085 flaw in VMware ESXi flaw. Microsoft researchers warned that multiple ransomware gangs are exploiting the recently patched vulnerability CVE-2024-37085 (CVSS score of 6.8) in VMware ESXi flaw. “Microsoft researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in ESXi hypervisors being exploited by several ransomware operators to obtain full […]

Acronis warns of a critical vulnerability in its Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) solution that is being actively exploited in the wild. Acronis is warning of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-45249 (CVSS score of 9.8), in its Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) solution that is being actively exploited in the wild. ACI is a comprehensive IT […]

CrowdStrike warns about a new threat actor targeting German customers by exploiting a recent issue with Falcon Sensor updates. On July 24, 2024, CrowdStrike experts identified a spear-phishing campaign targeting German customers by exploiting the recent issue with Falcon Sensor updates. A previously unknown threat actor set up a fake website, resembling a German entity, […]

Belarus-linked APT group GhostWriter targeted Ukrainian organizations with a malware family known as PicassoLoader, used to deliver various malicious payloads. The Ukrainian Government’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) reported a surge in activity associated with the APT group UAC-0057 (aka GhostWriter) group between July 12 and 18, 2024. Threat actors distributed documents containing macros designed […]

French authorities and Europol are conducting a “disinfection operation” targeting hosts compromised by the PlugX malware. The French authorities, with the help of Europol, have launched on July 18, 2024, a “disinfection operation” to clean hosts infected with the PlugX malware. Following a report by the cybersecurity firm Sekoia.io, the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office launched […]

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Ukraine launched a massive cyber operation that shut down the ATM services of the biggest Russian banks on July 27, reported the Kyiv Post. Ukraine has launched a massive cyberattack against ATMs of Russian banks, the cyber operation began on July 23. “This is an opportune moment to fully implement the Kremlin’s long-desired ‘import substitution’ […]

Google addressed a Chrome’s Password Manager bug that caused user credentials to disappear temporarily for more than 18 hours. Google has addressed a bug in Chrome’s Password Manager that caused user credentials to disappear temporarily. An 18-hour outage impacted Google Chrome’s Password Manager on Wednesday, impacting users who rely on the tool to store and […]