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  • December 6, 2024

Hackers Leveraging Cloudflare Tunnels, DNS Fast-Flux to Hide GammaDrop Malware

The threat actor known as Gamaredon has been observed leveraging Cloudflare Tunnels as a tactic to conceal its staging infrastructure hosting a malware called GammaDrop. The activity is part of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian entities since at least early 2024 that’s designed to drop the Visual Basic Script malware, Recorded Future’s Insikt Group […]

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  • December 5, 2024

Russian money-laundering network linked to drugs and ransomware disrupted, 84 arrests

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed details of Operation Destabilise, a years-long international law enforcement investigation into a giant Russian money laundering enterprise that handled billions of dollars for drug traffickers and ransomware gangs worldwide.  The multi-billion dollar Smart and TGR networks are said to have used a complex system of cash handovers […]

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  • December 5, 2024

This $3,000 Android Trojan Targeting Banks and Cryptocurrency Exchanges

As many as 77 banking institutions, cryptocurrency exchanges, and national organizations have become the target of a newly discovered Android remote access trojan (RAT) called DroidBot. “DroidBot is a modern RAT that combines hidden VNC and overlay attack techniques with spyware-like capabilities, such as keylogging and user interface monitoring,” Cleafy researchers Simone Mattia, Alessandro Strino, […]

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  • December 5, 2024

Critical Mitel MiCollab Flaw Exposes Systems to Unauthorized File and Admin Access

Cybersecurity researchers have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that strings together a now-patched critical security flaw impacting Mitel MiCollab with an arbitrary file read zero-day, granting an attacker the ability to access files from susceptible instances. The critical vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-41713 (CVSS score: 9.8), which relates to a case of insufficient input validation […]

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  • December 5, 2024

Europol Shuts Down Manson Market Fraud Marketplace, Seizes 50 Servers

Europol on Thursday announced the shutdown of a clearnet marketplace called Manson Market that facilitated online fraud on a large scale. The operation, led by German authorities, has resulted in the seizure of more than 50 servers associated with the service and the arrest of two suspects. More than 200 terabytes of digital evidence have […]

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  • December 5, 2024

Hackers Target Uyghurs and Tibetans with MOONSHINE Exploit and DarkNimbus Backdoor

A previously undocumented threat activity cluster dubbed Earth Minotaur is leveraging the MOONSHINE exploit kit and an unreported Android-cum-Windows backdoor called DarkNimbus to facilitate long-term surveillance operations targeting Tibetans and Uyghurs. “Earth Minotaur uses MOONSHINE to deliver the DarkNimbus backdoor to Android and Windows devices, targeting WeChat, and possibly making it a cross-platform threat,” Trend […]

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  • December 5, 2024

Want to Grow Vulnerability Management into Exposure Management? Start Here!

Vulnerability Management (VM) has long been a cornerstone of organizational cybersecurity. Nearly as old as the discipline of cybersecurity itself, it aims to help organizations identify and address potential security issues before they become serious problems. Yet, in recent years, the limitations of this approach have become increasingly evident. At its core, Vulnerability Management processes […]

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  • December 5, 2024

Smashing Security podcast #396: Dishy DDoS dramas, and mining our minds for data

A CEO is arrested for turning satellite receivers into DDoS attack weapons, and we journey into the world of bossware and “affective computing” and explore how AI is learning to read our emotions – is this the future of work, or a recipe for dystopia? All this and more is discussed in the latest edition […]

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  • December 5, 2024

Researchers Uncover 4-Month Cyberattack on U.S. Firm Linked to Chinese Hackers

A suspected Chinese threat actor targeted a large U.S. organization earlier this year as part of a four-month-long intrusion. According to Broadcom-owned Symantec, the first evidence of the malicious activity was detected on April 11, 2024 and continued until August. However, the company doesn’t rule out the possibility that the intrusion may have occurred earlier. […]

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