Exxon lobbyist investigated over hack-and-leak of environmentalist emails

The FBI has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant over the contractor’s alleged role in a hack-and-leak operation that targeted hundreds of the oil company’s biggest critics, according to three people familiar with the matter. The operation involved mercenary Read More …

TaxOff: um, you’ve got a backdoor…

In Q3 2024, the Positive Technologies Expert Security Center (PT ESC) TI Department discovered a series of attacks on Russian government agencies. PT ESC researchers were unable to establish any connection with known groups using the same techniques. The main goal Read More …

Russia-linked hackers exploited Firefox and Windows bugs in ‘widespread’ hacking campaign

Security researchers have uncovered two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by RomCom, a Russian-linked hacking group, to target Firefox browser users and Windows device owners across Europe and North America. Researchers with security firm ESET say Read More …

Inside Water Barghest’s Rapid Exploit-to-Market Strategy for IoT Devices

There is a big incentive for both espionage motivated actors and financially motivated actors to set up proxy botnets. These can serve as an anonymization layer, which can provide plausibly geolocated IP addresses to scrape contents of websites, access stolen Read More …

Earth Simnavaz (aka APT34) Levies Advanced Cyberattacks Against Middle East

Recently, Trend Micro has been tracking Earth Simnavaz (also known as APT34 and OilRig), a cyber espionage group. This group primarily targets organizations in the energy sector, particularly those involved in oil and gas, as well as other infrastructure. It Read More …

QSC: A multi-plugin framework used by CloudComputating group in cyberespionage campaigns

In 2021, Kaspersky researchers began to investigate an attack on the telecom industry in South Asia. During the investigation, they discovered QSC: a multi-plugin malware framework that loads and runs plugins (modules) in memory. The framework includes a Loader, a Read More …

Venture Wolf attempts to disrupt Russian businesses with MetaStealer

BI.ZONE Threat Intelligence has discovered a previously unknown cluster whose activity can be traced back to November 2023. Dubbed Venture Wolf, the cluster employs multiple loaders to deliver MetaStealer to the target systems. The threat actor focuses on a range Read More …

Canada labels India a ‘cyber adversary’ in new security report

India has been described as an adversary for the first time in an official Canadian government document. That description came in the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026 released by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, on Tuesday. In its section Read More …

New Tradecraft of Iranian Cyber Group Aria Sepehr Ayandehsazan aka Emennet Pasargad

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Department of Treasury, and Israel National Cyber Directorate are releasing this Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn network defenders of new cyber tradecraft of the Iranian cyber group Emennet Pasargad, which has been operating Read More …