Cyber Defense Advisors

Year: 2024

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  • February 27, 2024

Open-Source Xeno RAT Trojan Emerges as a Potent Threat on GitHub

An “intricately designed” remote access trojan (RAT) called Xeno RAT has been made available on GitHub, making it easily accessible to other actors at no extra cost. Written in C# and compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems, the open-source RAT comes with a “comprehensive set of features for remote system management,” according […]

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  • February 27, 2024

China Surveillance Company Hacked

Last week, someone posted something like 570 files, images and chat logs from a Chinese company called I-Soon. I-Soon sells hacking and espionage services to Chinese national and local government. Lots of details in the news articles. These aren’t details about the tools or techniques, more the inner workings of the company. And they seem […]

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  • February 27, 2024

From Alert to Action: How to Speed Up Your SOC Investigations

Processing alerts quickly and efficiently is the cornerstone of a Security Operations Center (SOC) professional’s role. Threat intelligence platforms can significantly enhance their ability to do so. Let’s find out what these platforms are and how they can empower analysts. The Challenge: Alert Overload The modern SOC faces a relentless barrage of security alerts generated […]

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  • February 27, 2024

Five Eyes Agencies Expose APT29’s Evolving Cloud Attack Tactics

Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from the Five Eyes nations have released a joint advisory detailing the evolving tactics of the Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29. The hacking outfit, also known as BlueBravo, Cloaked Ursa, Cozy Bear, Midnight Blizzard (formerly Nobelium), and The Dukes, is assessed to be affiliated with the Foreign Intelligence Service […]

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  • February 27, 2024

New Hugging Face Vulnerability Exposes AI Models to Supply Chain Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have found that it’s possible to compromise the Hugging Face Safetensors conversion service to ultimately hijack the models submitted by users and result in supply chain attacks. “It’s possible to send malicious pull requests with attacker-controlled data from the Hugging Face service to any repository on the platform, as well as hijack any […]

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  • February 27, 2024

WordPress Plugin Alert – Critical SQLi Vulnerability Threatens 200K+ Websites

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in a popular WordPress plugin called Ultimate Member that has more than 200,000 active installations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1071, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10. Security researcher Christiaan Swiers has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw. In an advisory […]

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  • February 26, 2024

Booking.com refund request? It might be an Agent Tesla malware attack

Always be wary of opening unsolicited attachments – they might harbour malware. That’s a message that is being strongly underlined once again, following the discovery of a cybercrime campaign that is using the cover of travel service providers. Security researchers at Forcepoint say that they have uncovered evidence that malicious hackers are sending out poisoned […]

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  • February 26, 2024

The LockBit ransomware gang rears its ugly head again, after law enforcement takedown

Graham CLULEY February 26, 2024 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial Surprise! The LockBit ransomware group has re-emerged, just days after a high-profile law enforcement operation seized control of its infrastructure and disrupted its operations. “Operation Cronos” saw global agencies around the world work together to seize control of […]

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  • February 26, 2024

New IDAT Loader Attacks Using Steganography to Deploy Remcos RAT

Ukrainian entities based in Finland have been targeted as part of a malicious campaign distributing a commercial remote access trojan known as Remcos RAT using a malware loader called IDAT Loader. The attack has been attributed to a threat actor tracked by the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) under the moniker UAC-0184. “The […]

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