Ducktail fashion week

Ducktail is a malware family that has been active since the second half of 2021 and aims to steal Facebook business accounts. Kaspersky Daily Iran, WithSecure, and GridinSoft have all covered Ducktail attacks: the infostealer spread under the guise of documents Read More …

U.S. arm of China mega-lender ICBC hit by ransomware attack

The U.S. arm of China’s largest bank said Thursday that it was hit by a ransomware attack, forcing clients to reroute trades and disrupting the U.S. Treasury market. Ransomware attacks typically access vulnerable computer systems and encrypt or steal data, Read More …

Modern Asian APT groups’ tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs)

This report consists of six main sections – Incidents involving Asian APT groups in various regions of the planet Information on five unique incidents that Kaspersky researchers detected in different parts of the world. Each incident is a unique case within Read More …

CVE-2023-47246: SysAid Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited By Lace Tempest

On November 8, 2023, IT service management company SysAid disclosed CVE-2023-47426, a zero-day path traversal vulnerability affecting on-premise SysAid servers. According to Microsoft’s threat intelligence team, it has been exploited in the wild by DEV-0950 (Lace Tempest) in “limited attacks.” Read More …

Threat Predictions for 2024: Chained AI and CaaS Operations Give Attackers More “Easy” Buttons Than Ever

With the growth of Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) operations and the advent of generative AI, threat actors have more “easy” buttons at their fingertips to assist with carrying out attacks than ever before. By relying on the growing capabilities in their respective Read More …

OpenAI Blames ChatGPT’s Intermittent Outages On ‘Abnormal Traffic’ That Suggests Potential Cyber Attack

ChatGPT continued to face intermittent outages late Wednesday, which the platform’s maker OpenAI blamed on a potential cyberattack, hours after the AI chatbot platform recovered from a wide outage that the company initially attributed to a surge in interest for Read More …

FBI: Ransomware Actors Continue to Gain Access through Third Parties and Legitimate System Tools

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this Private Industry Notification to highlight ransomware initial access trends and encourage organizations to implement the recommendations in the “Mitigations” section to reduce the likelihood and impact of ransomware incidents. Threat As Read More …

UK: Cyber attack hits island council computer systems

A suspected ransomware attack has caused significant disruption to IT systems at Western Isles local authority, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. The council said access to its systems had been affected. The Scottish government and computer company Dell have been helping Comhairle Read More …