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The FBI claims it has dealt with a cybersecurity “incident” that reportedly involved computer systems being used to investigate child sexual exploitation. “The FBI is aware of the incident and is working to gain additional information,” a spokesperson said in Read More …
Trend Micro researchers discovered a new backdoor which Trend Micro have attributed to the advanced persistent threat actor known as Earth Kitsune, which they have covered before. Since 2019, Earth Kitsune has been distributing variants of self-developed backdoors to targets, Read More …
John C. Inglis left his post as the first national cyber director this week while the Biden administration plans a new cyber strategy. Mr. Inglis formally exited before the administration details its long-anticipated national cybersecurity strategy that his team has Read More …
Norwegian authorities announced on Thursday that they had recovered $5.9 million of cryptocurrency stolen in the Axie Infinity hack – an incident widely held to have been perpetrated by the Lazarus Group, which has links to North Korea. The Norwegian Read More …
“A vulnerability in the HFS+ partition file parser of ClamAV versions 1.0.0 and earlier, 0.105.1 and earlier, and 0.103.7 and earlier could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code,” states Cisco’s security advisory, which identifies the issue as Read More …
Symantec, by Broadcom Software, has observed a new malware that abuses a feature of Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) to deploy a backdoor onto targeted systems. The malware, dubbed Frebniis (Backdoor.Frebniis), was used by a currently unknown threat actor against Read More …
CISA released fifteen (15) Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on February 16, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for Read More …
Nearly one year ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, and we continue to see cyber operations play a prominent role in the war. To provide more insights into the role of cyber, today, we are releasing our report Fog of War: How Read More …
In 2021, Trend Micro researchers observed several targeted attacks against researchers of academic organizations and think tanks in Japan. Trend Micro have since been tracking this series of attacks and identified the new intrusion set we have named “Earth Yako”. Read More …
A new malware dubbed ‘ProxyShellMiner’ exploits the Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities to deploy cryptocurrency miners throughout a Windows domain to generate profit for the attackers. ProxyShell is the name of three Exchange vulnerabilities discovered and fixed by Microsoft in 2021. Read More …