The North Korean software supply chain attack on a Chicago financial trading software developer infected additional victims besides 3CX, including organizations in the energy sector, says Symantec Threat Hunter Team. One organization is located in the United States, the other in Europe.
Ukraine should brace for more Russian wiper and ransomware attacks, concluded a panel of cyber threat intel experts and government officials in a report assessing the cyber dimensions of Moscow's ongoing war of conquest against its European neighbor.
North Korean hackers' software supply chain attack on desktop phone developer 3CX was the fruit of a separate and previously undisclosed supply chain attack on a financial trading software maker, is the conclusion of the Mandiant forensics team brought in to investigate.
The global commercial spyware market will expand over the next five years as demand for advanced surveillance tools by governments surges, says a new report from the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Center. The NCSC assesses that at least 80 countries have purchased advanced spyware apps.
The U.S. weapons arsenal developed without a zero trust architecture is at growing risk from cyberattacks, lawmakers heard today in a panel dedicated to how artificial intelligence can simultaneously help and hurt efforts to protect warfighters from digital attacks.
An Iranian state hacking group shifted from espionage to direct targeting of U.S. critical infrastructure - a likely indicator of newfound aggression by the national security apparatus, says Microsoft. One sign of Iran's new intensity is quicker uptake of exploits of newly disclosed vulnerabilities.
The Russian government continues to use an array of phishing attacks and information operations - including hack-and-leak efforts and running hacktivist groups such as CyberArmyofRussia - to support its illegal invasion of Ukraine, Google researchers report.
A Russian hacking campaign is targeting European embassies and diplomats as part of an ongoing cyberespionage campaign aimed at stealing Western government intelligence on the war in Ukraine, according to a joint alert by the Polish CERT and Military Counterintelligence Service.
Microsoft has issued fixes for 114 vulnerabilities, including patching a zero-day flaw being actively exploited by a ransomware group and updating guidance to block a vulnerability from 2013 that was recently exploited for the software supply chain attack on 3CX users, attributed to North Korea.
A low-profile Israeli advanced spyware firm used a suspected zero-day to surveil the lives of journalists, political opposition figures and a nongovernmental organization worker across multiple continents, say researchers from the Citizen Lab and Microsoft.
Further punishment of Moscow-based Kaspersky by the Biden administration could be the final nail in the coffin of the company's deeply wounded North American business. The U.S. Commerce Department is weighing enforcement action against the Russian cybersecurity giant under its online security rules.
North Korean hackers who use social engineering tactics for espionage have learned that less is more when it comes to coaxing victims into clicking a malicious link. Hackers that Google tracks as Archipelago might not introduce a malicious link until after a chain of emails has been exchanged.
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An employee of a Ukrainian utility company installed an unlicensed version of Microsoft Office from a torrent website resulting in two remote access Trojans infecting the company's systems. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine attributes the malware to a group it tracks as UAC-0145.
Days after Google suspended the popular budget e-commerce application Pinduoduo from its Play Store, researchers are alleging that the Chinese app can bypass phones' security and monitor activities of other apps, including accessing private messages and changing settings.
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