From December 2023 to the present, QiAnXin Threat Intelligence Center observed that a ransomware written in rust language is very active on the Chinese Internet, and a large number of machines in China have been ransomed, with up to more than 20 victimized units only in the terminals of government and enterprises, which the researchers call Rast ransomware.
After a long time of tracking, QiAnXin Threat Intelligence Center have captured three versions of Rast ransomware, and the versions are still iterating. rast ransomware has a very special logic: after the ransomware is completed, it will upload the machine name and unique identifier of the local machine to the remote mysql database. Through reverse analysis the research team got the mysql database account password and statistics of victims in the database, and found that in just ten months more than 6,800 terminals were controlled.
Read more…
Source: QiAnXin Threat Intelligence Center
Related:
- CVE-2023-47218: QNAP QTS and QuTS Hero Unauthenticated Command Injection (FIXED)
February 13, 2024
Rapid7 has identified an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability in the QNAP operating system known as QTS and QuTS hero. QTS is a core part of the firmware for numerous QNAP entry- and mid-level Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, and QuTS hero is a core part of the firmware for numerous QNAP high-end and enterprise NAS devices. ...
- Community Alert: Ongoing Malicious Campaign Impacting Azure Cloud Environments
February 12, 2024
Over the past weeks, Proofpoint researchers have been monitoring an ongoing cloud account takeover campaign impacting dozens of Microsoft Azure environments and compromising hundreds of user accounts, including senior executives. This post serves as a community warning regarding the attack and offers suggestions that affected organizations can implement to protect themselves from it. Proofpoint researchers detected ...
- UK: Contact details and national security numbers could have been stolen from Southern Water customers following cyber attack
February 12, 2024
The announcement, which went live on Southern Water’s website earlier today (February 12), confirms that ‘a limited part’ of the company’s server estate is at risk following an illegal intrusion earlier this year. Apologising for the breach, a spokesperson confirmed that the company is working with “expert technical advisers to confirm who is at risk,” and ...
- US Government Accounting Office says it was notified of data breach by IT contractor CGI Federal
February 12, 2024
The U.S. Government Accounting Office says it was notified of a data breach by IT contractor GCI Federal. Reuters could not immediately ascertain the size and scope of the breach. The GAO said that about 6,000 people, “primarily current and former GAO employees from 2007 to 2017,” had been affected but did not immediately respond when ...
- Hackers uncover new TheTruthSpy stalkerware victims
February 12, 2024
A consumer-grade spyware operation called TheTruthSpy poses an ongoing security and privacy risk to thousands of people whose Android devices are unknowingly compromised with its mobile surveillance apps, not least due to a simple security flaw that its operators never fixed. Now, two hacking groups have independently found the flaw that allows the mass access of ...
- Kenya: Cyber attacks on computer systems, mobile apps surge
February 10, 2024
Cyber attacks on computer systems and mobile applications recorded the highest increase in the three months to December last year, the latest data from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) shows. According to the CA’s Cyber Security report for the period, system attack threats that were detected increased 10-fold compared to the preceding three-month period that ...