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  • Chasing Eddies: New Rust- based InfoStealer used in CAPTCHA campaigns

    May 30, 2025

    Elastic Security Labs has uncovered a novel Rust-based infostealer distributed via Fake CAPTCHA campaigns. This malware is hosted on multiple adversary-controlled web properties. This campaign leverages deceptive CAPTCHA verification pages that trick users into executing a malicious PowerShell script, which ultimately deploys the infostealer, harvesting sensitive data such as credentials, browser information, and cryptocurrency wallet details. ...

  • Melbourne-based financial services and advice firm hit with cyber attack

    May 30, 2025

    Financial services aggregate 3P Corporation has denied its data was breached in an April attack; however, hackers have published more than 200 gigabytes of internal documents and customer data online. The Space Bears ransomware gang listed Victorian financial services firm 3P Corporation as a victim on its darknet leak site in early April, and has since ...

  • Deep Dive into a Dumped Malware without a PE Header

    May 29, 2025

    This analysis is part of an incident investigation led by the FortiGuard Incident Response Team. Fortiguard Incident Response Team discovered malware that had been running on a compromised machine for several weeks. The threat actor had executed a batch of scripts and PowerShell to run the malware in a Windows process. Although obtaining the original malware ...

  • FBI probes effort to impersonate White House chief of staff Susie Wiles

    May 29, 2025

    One or more unknown people accessed White House chief of staff Susie Wiles’ personal cellphone and used her contacts file to reach out to other top officials and impersonate her, sources told CBS News Thursday. Some of the recipients realized the messages were suspicious because the texts and calls came from an unknown number, sources said, ...

  • FBI: Infrastructure Used to Manage Domains Related to Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud Scams between October 2023 and April 2025

    May 29, 2025

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this FLASH to disseminate indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with malicious cyber activities linked to Funnull Technology Inc. (Funnull). Funnull is a Philippines-based company which provides computer infrastructure for thousands of websites associated with cryptocurrency investment fraud (CIF) scams, commonly referred to as “pig butchering,” and other illicit ...

  • Victoria’s Secret pulls down website amid security incident

    May 28, 2025

    Clothing and lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret suspended most of the functionality of its website and some in-store services to “address a security incident,” according to a statement posted to the company’s website on Wednesday. “We identified and are taking steps to address a security incident,” a Victoria’s Secret spokesperson told Reuters in an email on Wednesday. ...

  • Zanubis in motion: Tracing the active evolution of the Android banking malware

    May 28, 2025

    Zanubis is a banking Trojan for Android that emerged in mid-2022. Since its inception, it has targeted banks and financial entities in Peru, before expanding its objectives to virtual cards and crypto wallets. The main infection vector of Zanubis is impersonating legitimate Peruvian Android applications and then misleading the user into enabling the accessibility permissions. Once ...

  • Earth Lamia Develops Custom Arsenal to Target Multiple Industries

    May 27, 2025

    Trend Micro researchers have been tracking an active intrusion set that primarily targets organizations located in countries including Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia since 2023. The threat actor mainly targets the SQL injection vulnerabilities discovered on web applications to access the SQL servers of targeted organizations. The actor also takes advantage of various known vulnerabilities to ...

  • Retail Under Siege: What Recent Cyber Attacks Tell Us About Today’s Threat Landscape

    May 27, 2025

    When several major UK organizations, including well-known retail brands, found themselves caught in a cyber attack earlier this year, it made headlines. But this incident wasn’t the first, and it won’t be the last. It reflects a growing trend where attackers exploit third-party vendors to breach multiple businesses through a single point of entry. In one ...

  • Pakistan among least affected by web threats

    May 25, 2025

    At its annual Cyber Security Weekend for the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa (META) region, the Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team presented cybersecurity trends, including ransomware, advanced persistent threats (APTs), supply chain attacks, mobile threats, artificial intelligence and IoT developments. The first quarter of 2025 showed that Turkiye and Kenya had the highest number of ...