Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Security firm Barracuda addressed a new zero-day, affecting its Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances, that is actively exploited by the China-linked UNC4841 group. The vulnerability has been actively exploited by the Chinese hacker group UNC4841 Chinese. ” reads the advisory. ” reads the advisory.

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JULY 8, 2019

The developer Tute Costa found a backdoor in the Ruby library during regular security audits before deploying his code in the production environment. The developer Tute Costa found a backdoor in the Ruby library during regular security audits. The attacker created a new version of the library (version 0.0.7 version 0.0.7

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AUGUST 7, 2024

The Rhysida Ransomware group claims to have breached Bayhealth Hospital in Delaware and offers alleged stolen data for 25 BTC. The Rhysida Ransomware group claims to have breached Bayhealth Hospital and added the hospital to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The Rhysida ransomware group has been active since May 2023.

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have hacked Abdali Hospital, a multi-specialty hospital located in Jordan. The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have breached the Abdali Hospital in Jordan and added it to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The Rhysida ransomware group has been active since May 2023.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have hacked King Edward VII’s Hospital in London. The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have hacked King Edward VII’s Hospital in London and added it to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The Rhysida ransomware group has been active since May 2023. Data from the Royal Family!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The DRBControl APT group has been targeting gambling and betting companies worldwide with malware that links to two China-linked APT groups. Security researchers from TrendMicro have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign carried out by an APT group tracked as DRBControl that employed a new family of malware.

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MARCH 13, 2025

“GitLab has remediated two privately disclosed security issues (CVE-2025-25291, CVE-2025-25292) identified in the ruby-saml library which GitLab uses when SAML SSO authentication is enabled at the instance or group level.” This library is, however, used in other popular projects and products.”

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The TeamTNT hacker group has been employing a new piece of malware, dubbed Hildegard, to target Kubernetes installs. The hacking group TeamTNT has been employing a new piece of malware, dubbed Hildegard, in a series of attacks targeting Kubernetes systems. Uses a known Linux process name (bioset) to disguise the malicious process.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Symantec researchers reported that cyberespionage group APT41 targeted organizations in Hong Kong in a campaign that is a likely continuation of the Operation CuckooBees activity detailed by Cybereason in May. Winnti (aka APT41 , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly) is a cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

The OceanLotus APT group, also known as APT32 or Cobalt Kitty , leverages a steganography-based loader to deliver backdoors on compromised systems. The APT32 group, also known as OceanLotus Group, has been active since at least 2013, according to the experts it is a state-sponsored hacking group. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A new Chinese APT group, tracked as KilllSomeOne, appeared in the threat landscape targeting corporate organizations in Myanmar. A new Chinese APT group, tracked as KilllSomeOne, was spotted by researchers at Sophos. The advanced cyber-espionage group is targeting corporate organizations in Myanmar with DLL side-loading attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

IBM researchers observed one of the Magecart groups using a malicious code to inject into commercial-grade layer 7 L7 routers. IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) experts observed that one of the Magecart groups, tracked as MG5, is using malware to inject into commercial-grade L7 routers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Researchers uncovered a recent campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations. The group has been active since at least 2013, ESET experts linked the group to the Gamaredon Russian APT group Gamaredon despite considers the two crews independent.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

PYSA and Lockbit were the most active ransomware gangs in the threat landscape in November 2021, researchers from NCC Group report. Security researchers from NCC Group reported an increase in ransomware attacks in November 2021 over the past month, and PYSA (aka Mespinoza) and Lockbit were the most active ransomware gangs.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Security experts at FireEye observed Chinese APT41 APT group targeting a web server at a U.S.-based Experts at FireEye observed Chinese APT41 APT group targeting a web server at a U.S.-based The arsenal of the group includes backdoors , credential stealers, keyloggers, and rootkits. based research university. chm ) files.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

A group of anonymous security researchers that calls itself Intrusion Truth have tracked the activity of a China-linked cyber – e spionage group dubbed APT40. The Intrusion Truth group has doxed the fourth Chinese state-sponsored hacking operation. “We know that multiple areas of China each have their own APT.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Researchers from RiskIQ and FlashPoint analyzed the evolution of Magecart groups, in particular of a gang tracked as Group 4 that appears to be very sophisticated. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen Magecart groups at least since 2015. “Group 4 is advanced. “Group 4 is advanced.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. A new cyber espionage group tracked as Gallmaker appeared in the threat landscape. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The experts noticed that both the Domino and Agile software appear to be using old certificates and the Agile servers use old vulnerable libraries. The arsenal of the Clasiopa group includes: Atharvan custom remote access Trojan (RAT). Modified versions of the publicly available Lilith RAT. A custom proxy tool.

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APRIL 23, 2020

The malicious code leverages two custom resources, ‘godown.dll’and ‘filesystem.dll’ treated as type libraries and registered as OLE controls, to enumerate attached drives, traverse folder structures, and handle some C&C functionality. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 26, 2023

China-linked APT group VANGUARD PANDA, aka Volt Typhoon, was spotted observing a novel tradecraft to gain initial access to target networks. CrowdStrike researchers observed the China-linked APT group VANGUARD PANDA, aka Volt Typhoon , using a novel tradecraft to gain initial access to target networks. ” concludes the report.

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MAY 19, 2023

The Lemon Group cybercrime ring has reportedly pre-installed malware known as Guerilla on almost 9 million Android devices. A cybercrime group tracked has Lemon Group has reportedly pre-installed malware known as Guerilla on almost 9 million Android devices. The domain used by the DEX file belongs to the Lemon Group ( js [.]big

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These flaws could allow attackers to inject malicious libraries into Microsoft’s apps and steal permissions. Despite these risks, Microsoft considers the issues low-risk and declined to fix them, stating that some apps need to allow unsigned libraries for plugin support.

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CILIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

Invitation to tender: Future ready libraries CILIP is inviting researchers to undertake a gap analysis and consultation with sector experts to create a comprehensive review of training provision for leadership in the public library workforce in England.

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JULY 20, 2023

China-linked group APT41 was spotted using two previously undocumented Android spyware called WyrmSpy and DragonEgg China-linked APT group APT41 has been observed using two previously undocumented Android spyware called WyrmSpy and DragonEgg. ” reads the report published by Lookout.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2022

The group also is tracking several code packages that were recently modified to erase files on computers that appear to be coming from Russian or Belarusian Internet addresses. For example, the popular library ES5-ext hadn’t updated its code in nearly two years. The message has been Google-Translated from Russian to English.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

Experts warn that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second bug disclosed in the popular Log4j logging library. American web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare warns that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-45046 , disclosed in the Log4j library.

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MAY 5, 2019

Magecart group stole payment card details from the e-commerce system used by colleges and universities in Canada and the US. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen Magecart groups at least since 2015. According to a joint report published by RiskIQ and FlashPoint in March, some groups are more advanced than others.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

The flaw was reported by Clément Lecigne and Vlad Stolyarov of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-12-19 and fixed in just one day. Reported by Clément Lecigne and Vlad Stolyarov of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-12-19” reads the advisory published by the IT giant. ” continues the advisory.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

The attackers sent commands to the malware via Dropbox, leading to the installation of additional Trojans, such as tools from the APT31 cyber espionage group and an updated version of the CloudSorcerer backdoor called GrewApacha. “This library is a backdoor packed with the VMProtect tool. . It also bears similarities to PlugX.”

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Sophos: APT Group Targeted Organizations In Southeast Asia A recently identified Chinese hacking group is using multiple types of Dynamic Link Library side-loading attack techniques to target non-government organizations in Southeast Asia, especially Myanmar, according to Sophos.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The researchers believe that the threat actor behind Attor a state-sponsored group involved in highly targeted attacks on selected targets. The malware implements a modular structure with a dispatcher and loadable plugins, all of which are implemented as dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

The Rocke group is using a new piece of cryptojacking malware dubbed Pro-Ocean to target Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis installs. The cybercrime group Rocke is using a new piece of cryptojacking malware called Pro-Ocean to target vulnerable Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis intalls. ” concludes the report.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Skia is an open-source 2D graphics library that provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms. Benoît Sevens and Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered the zero-day on on 2023-11-24. The CVE-2023-5217 is a high-severity integer overflow in Skia.

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DECEMBER 18, 2021

Multiple flaws in the Log4J library are scaring organizations worldwide while threat actors are already exploiting them. While the experts were warning that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-45046 , disclosed in the Log4j library a third security vulnerability made the headlines.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have hacked the Chinese state-owned energy conglomerate China Energy Engineering Corporation. China Energy Engineering Group ranks 3rd in ENR Top 150 Global Engineering Design Firms and 13th in ENR Top 250 Global Contractors. The Rhysida ransomware group has been active since May 2023.

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Budworm espionage group resurfaced targeting a U.S.-based This is the first time that Symantec researchers have observed the Budworm group targeting a U.S-based The group also targeted a hospital in South East Asia. The China-linked APT27 group has been active since 2010, it targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S.

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