The financially motivated threat actor FIN7 targeted a large U.S. car maker with spear-phishing emails for employees in the IT department to infect systems with the Anunak backdoor. […]
Moldovan charged for operating botnet used to push ransomware
The U.S. Justice Department charged Moldovan national Alexander Lefterov, the owner and operator of a large-scale botnet that infected thousands of computers across the United States. […]
Cisco discloses root escalation flaw with public exploit code
Cisco has released patches for a high-severity Integrated Management Controller (IMC) vulnerability with public exploit code that can let local attackers escalate privileges to root. […]
Russian Sandworm hackers pose as hacktivists in water utility breaches
The Sandworm hacking group associated with Russian military intelligence has been hiding attacks and operations behind multiple online personas posing as hacktivist groups. […]
Dark Web Monitoring: What’s the Value?
Cybersecurity firms commonly sell “dark web monitoring” packages, with firms having slighly different features. Learn from Flare about the different dark web monitoring packages and the value they bring to your organization. […]
Russian APT Deploys New ‘Kapeka’ Backdoor in Eastern European Attacks
A previously undocumented “flexible” backdoor called Kapeka has been “sporadically” observed in cyber attacks targeting Eastern Europe, including Estonia and Ukraine, since at least mid-2022.
The findings come from Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure, which attributed the malware to the Russia-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as Sandworm (aka APT44 or
The findings come from Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure, which attributed the malware to the Russia-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as Sandworm (aka APT44 or
Multiple botnets exploiting one-year-old TP-Link flaw to hack routers
At least six distinct botnet malware operations are hunting for TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) routers vulnerable to a command injection security issue reported and addressed last year. […]
Microsoft: Copilot ‘app’ on Windows Server mistakenly added by Edge
Microsoft says the new Copilot app, mistakenly added to the list of installed Windows apps by recent Edge updates, doesn’t collect or relay data to its servers. […]
Microsoft: New Copilot app added by Edge doesn’t collect data
Microsoft says the new Copilot app, added by recent Edge updates to the list of installed Windows apps, doesn’t collect or relay data to its servers. […]