The trojanized Super Mario Bros. game installer was found to contain multiple malicious components, including an XMR miner, SupremeBot mining client, and the open-source Umbral Stealer. The discovery comes from a security researcher at Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL),…
Security and IT teams are routinely forced to deploy software before the security risks are fully understood. AI tools are no exception. Employees and business leaders alike are flocking to generative AI software and similar programs, often unaware of the…
June 26, 2023Ravi LakshmananCryptocurrency / Endpoint Security An unknown cryptocurrency exchange in Japan was targeted earlier this month by a new attack that introduced an Apple macOS backdoor called JokerSpy. We monitor an intrusion set under the name Elastic Security…
Despite the site owner’s arrest months ago, the US government seems to have finally captured a surface web domain associated with the infamous cybercrime market BreachForums. Visitors to breached.vc will see the following notification: “Domains associated with violating forums have…
June 26, 2023Ravi LakshmananCyber Threat / Password Security Microsoft said it has detected a spike in credential theft attacks by a Russian state-owned hacking group known as Midnight Blizzard. The intrusion relies on residential proxy services to obfuscate the attacking…
The UK government has responded to some concerns about the Cyber Essentials scheme by pointing out that only 35,000 organizations are accredited in the country. Managed by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the National Cyber Security…
A Liverpool man has been sentenced to five years in prison for high-level hacking activities that hijacked celebrity Twitter accounts to trick his followers. Joseph O’Connor, aka “Plugwalk Joe”, was extradited from Spain to the United States on April 26…
June 26, 2023Ravi LakshmananCyber Spy / LotL The newly discovered Chinese nation-state attacker, known as Bolt Typhoon, has been observed operating in the wild since at least the mid-2020s, with hacking teams conducting remote attacks on targets of interest. Linked…
June 24, 2023Ravi LakshmananCyber Crime / Virtual Currency British citizen who participated in massive Twitter hack in July 2020 sentenced to 5 years in prison in the US Joseph James O’Connor, aka Plugwalk Joe, 24, was sentenced in the Southern…
June 24, 2023Ravi LakshmananThreat Intel / Zero Day Citing evidence of active exploitation, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has collectively added six flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This includes three vulnerabilities that Apple patched this…
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