North Korea-backed hackers launch newly detected cyberattack using HWP object linking and embedding code

A North Korea-linked cyber hacking group appears to have launched a new cyberattack campaign, code-named “Artemis,” that embeds malicious code inside computer files, a report showed Monday. The Genians Security Center (GSC), a South Korean cybersecurity institute, said in a Read More …

Cisco email security products actively targeted in zero-day campaign

A China-affiliated threat actor has been abusing a zero-day vulnerability in multiple Cisco email appliances to gain access to the underlying system and establish persistence. Cisco confirmed the news in a blog post and a security advisory, urging users to Read More …

Cloud Atlas activity in the first half of 2025: what changed

Known since 2014, the Cloud Atlas group targets countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Infections occur via phishing emails containing a malicious document that exploits an old vulnerability in the Microsoft Office Equation Editor process (CVE-2018-0802) to download and Read More …

CISA and Partners Release Update to Malware Analysis Report BRICKSTORM Backdoor

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency, and Canadian Centre for Cyber Security released an update to the Malware Analysis Report BRICKSTORM Backdoor with indicators of compromise (IOCs) and detection signatures for additional BRICKSTORM samples. This Read More …

FBI: Senior U.S. Officials Continue to be Impersonated in Malicious Messaging Campaign

This is an update to Public Service Announcement I-051525-PSA, released May 15, 2025, which can be found here. Activity dating back to 2023 reveals malicious actors have impersonated senior U.S. state government, White House, and Cabinet level officials, as well Read More …

Operation ForumTroll continues: Russian political scientists targeted using plagiarism reports

In March 2025, we discovered Operation ForumTroll, a series of sophisticated cyberattacks exploiting the CVE-2025-2783 vulnerability in Google Chrome. Kaspersky researchers previously detailed the malicious implants used in the operation: the LeetAgent backdoor and the complex spyware Dante, developed by Read More …

Amazon security boss blames Russia’s GRU for years-long energy-sector hacks

Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is behind a years-long campaign targeting energy, telecommunications, and tech providers, stealing credentials and compromising misconfigured devices hosted on AWS to give the Kremlin’s snoops persistent access to sensitive networks, according to Amazon’s security boss. Read More …

NANOREMOTE, cousin of FINALDRAFT

In October 2025, Elastic Security Labs discovered a newly-observed Windows backdoor in telemetry. The fully-featured backdoor Elastic Security Lab call NANOREMOTE shares characteristics with malware described in REF7707 and is similar to the FINALDRAFT implant. One of the malware’s primary Read More …

Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme

A security researcher specializing in tracking China threats claims two of Salt Typhoon’s members were former attendees of a training scheme run by Cisco. SentinelLabs’ Dakota Cary linked Yu Yang and Qiu Daibing, two alleged members of the Chinese state Read More …

Poland detains three Ukrainians over possession of hacking equipment

A Polish court has ordered three Ukrainian nationals held on charges of computer fraud and possessing hardware and software designed to commit crimes, including a suspected attempt to damage IT data deemed crucial to national defence. The three men, aged Read More …