AMOS and Lumma stealers actively spread to Reddit users

Malwarebytes Labs were alerted to Mac and Windows stealers currently distributed via Reddit posts targeting users engaging in cryptocurrency trading. One of the common lures is a cracked software version of the popular trading platform TradingView. The crooks are posting Read More …

Critical Security Incident involving GitHub Action tj-action/changed-files

A critical security incident involving the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action has been reported. The changed-files action, which allows GitHub repositories to track file changes, has been tampered with to allow the exposure through GitHub Actions build logs of CI/CD secrets, including Read More …

StilachiRAT analysis: From system reconnaissance to cryptocurrency theft

In November 2024, Microsoft Incident Response researchers uncovered a novel remote access trojan (RAT) they named StilachiRAT that demonstrates sophisticated techniques to evade detection, persist in the target environment, and exfiltrate sensitive data. Analysis of the StilachiRAT’s WWStartupCtrl64.dll module that Read More …

UK National Crime Agency officer charged following alleged Bitcoin theft

An officer from the National Crime Agency (NCA) has been charged after the alleged theft of Bitcoin. Paul Chowles, 42, from Bristol, is charged with 15 offences relating to the alleged theft of 50 Bitcoin during an investigation into online Read More …

Head Mare and Twelve join forces to attack Russian entities

In September 2024, a series of attacks targeted Russian companies, revealing indicators of compromise and tactics associated with two hacktivist groups: Head Mare and Twelve. kaspersky investigation showed that Head Mare relied heavily on tools previously associated with Twelve. Additionally, Read More …

Amazon is still hosting spyware victims’ data weeks after breach alert

Amazon will not say if it plans to take action against three phone surveillance apps that are storing troves of individuals’ private phone data on Amazon’s cloud servers, despite TechCrunch notifying the tech giant weeks earlier that it was hosting Read More …

New XCSSET malware adds new obfuscation, persistence techniques to infect Xcode projects

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a new variant of XCSSET, a sophisticated modular macOS malware that infects Xcode projects, in the wild during routine threat hunting. Its first known variant since 2022, this latest XCSSET malware features enhanced obfuscation methods, Read More …

Hacker accessed PowerSchool’s network months before massive December breach

A hacker compromised the U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool months before its ‘massive’ data breach in December, according to a now-published forensic report into the incident conducted by U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. In a letter sent to affected customers last week, Read More …

Japanese telco giant NTT Com says hackers accessed details of almost 18,000 organizations

Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications (NTT Com) has confirmed that hackers accessed the data of almost 18,000 corporate customers during a February cyberattack, affecting an as-yet-unknown number of individuals. The Tokyo-based NTT Com, which provides phone and network tech to Read More …

Operation sea elephant: The dying walrus wandering the Indian Ocean

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 …