Cascading Shadows: An Attack Chain Approach to Avoid Detection and Complicate Analysis

In December 2024, Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers uncovered an attack chain that employs distinct, multi-layered stages to deliver malware like Agent Tesla variants, Remcos RAT or XLoader. Attackers increasingly rely on such complex delivery mechanisms to evade detection, bypass Read More …

Hi, robot: Half of all internet traffic now automated

Traffic from “bad bots”—those created with malicious intent—first surpassed good bot traffic in 2016, Imperva’s research said, and it’s been getting worse. Bad bots comprised 37% of internet traffic in 2024, up from 32% the year prior. Good bots accounted Read More …

Apple says zero-day bugs exploited against ‘specific targeted individuals’ using iOS

Apple has released new software updates across its product line to fix two security vulnerabilities, which the company said may have been actively used to hack customers running its mobile software, iOS. In security advisories posted on its website, Apple Read More …

Chinese police put 3 U.S. operatives on wanted list over cyberattacks

Police authorities in Harbin, in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, said on Tuesday that they are pursuing three operatives affiliated with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) over suspected cyberattacks against China. The Harbin public security bureau said that the three Read More …

Slow Pisces Targets Developers With Coding Challenges and Introduces New Customized Python Malware

Slow Pisces (aka Jade Sleet, TraderTraitor, PUKCHONG) is a North Korean state-sponsored threat group primarily focused on generating revenue for the DPRK regime, typically by targeting large organizations in the cryptocurrency sector. This article analyzes their campaign that we believe Read More …

BPFDoor’s Hidden Controller Used Against Asia, Middle East Targets

The stealthy rootkit-like malware known as BPFDoor (detected as Backdoor.Linux.BPFDOOR) is a backdoor with strong stealth capabilities, most of them related to its use of Berkeley Packet Filtering (BPF). In a previous article, Trend Micro researchers covered how BPFDoor and Read More …

Fortinet Releases Security Updates for FortiOS and FortiGate

Fortinet has released security updates for FortiOS to mitigate novel post-exploitation activity observed against FortiGate devices. The disclosure details a new persistence technique used by an attacker, in conjunction with known vulnerabilities, to maintain read-only access to FortiGate devices through Read More …

Suspected Kimsuky (APT-Q-2) attacks South Korean companies

Kimsuky, alias Mystery Baby, Baby Coin, Smoke Screen, Black Banshe, etc., is tracked internally by Qi’anxin as APT-Q-2. The APT group was publicly disclosed in 2013, with attack activity dating as far back as 2012. Kimsuky’s main target for attacks Read More …

GOFFEE continues to attack organizations in Russia

GOFFEE is a threat actor that first came to our attention in early 2022. Since then, Kaspersky researchers have observed malicious activities targeting exclusively entities located in the Russian Federation, leveraging spear phishing emails with a malicious attachment. Starting in Read More …