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On Thursday, Amnesty International published a new report detailing attempted hacks against two Serbian journalists, allegedly carried out with NSO Group’s spyware Pegasus. The two journalists, who work for the Serbia-based Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), received suspicious text messages Read More …
In mid-March 2025, Kaspersky technologies detected a wave of infections by previously unknown and highly sophisticated malware. In all cases, infection occurred immediately after the victim clicked on a link in a phishing email, and the attackers’ website was opened Read More …
The Trend Zero Day Initiative threat hunting team identified significant instances of the exploitation of ZDI-CAN-25373 across a variety of campaigns dating back to 2017. The researchers analysis revealed that 11 state-sponsored groups from North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China Read More …
Espionage activity clusters may pose as recruiters to distribute phishing emails, targeting key employees in organizations of interest. In December 2024, the BI.ZONE Threat Intelligence team uncovered a peculiar phishing campaign aimed at luring victims with fake job opportunities at an Read More …
Last year, Kaspersky researchers published an article about SideWinder, a highly prolific APT group whose primary targets have been military and government entities in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, and Nepal. In the article, they described activities that had mostly happened Read More …
Israel’s military surveillance Unit 8200 has reportedly developed a vast database of intercepted Palestinian communications in order to construct an artificial intelligence tool similar to ChatGPT, a joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine and Mekomit alleged on Thursday. Israel Read More …
In fall 2024, UNK_CraftyCamel leveraged a compromised Indian electronics company to target fewer than five organizations in the United Arab Emirates with a malicious ZIP file that leveraged multiple polyglot files to eventually install a custom Go backdoor dubbed Sosano. Read More …
Operation Sea Elephant aims to spy on Chinese scientific research achievements in the field of ocean to ensure the dominance of a certain country in South Asia in the Indian Ocean. In mid-2024 QiAnXin Threat Intelligence Center researchers discovered the South Read More …
In early 2024, analysts at the Positive Technologies Expert Security Center (PT ESC) discovered a malicious sample. The cybersecurity community named it Poco RAT after the POCO libraries in its C++ codebase. At the time of its discovery, the sample Read More …
In January 2025, FortiGuard Labs observed an attack that used Winos4.0, an advanced malware framework actively used in recent threat campaigns, to target companies in Taiwan. According to a report released in November 2024, Winos4.0 was distributed through gaming-related applications, Read More …
