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The Transparent Tribe threat actor has been linked to a set of weaponized Microsoft Office documents in attacks targeting the Indian education sector using a continuously maintained piece of malware called Crimson RAT. While the suspected Pakistan-based threat group is known to target military and government entities in the country, the activities have since expanded to include the education

The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been observed shifting its focus and rapidly evolving its tools and tactics as part of a long-running activity called DeathNote. While the nation-state adversary is known for its persistent attacks on the cryptocurrency sector, it has also targeted automotive, academic, and defense sectors in Eastern Europe and other parts of the world

A wide-ranging campaign to inject malicious code into WordPress-run websites has been ongoing for at least five years.

Enterprise communications service provider 3CX confirmed that the supply chain attack targeting its desktop application for Windows and macOS was the handiwork of a threat actor with North Korean nexus. The findings are the result of an interim assessment conducted by Google-owned Mandiant, whose services were enlisted after the intrusion came to light late last month. The threat intelligence

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the inner workings of the cryptocurrency stealer malware that was distributed via 13 malicious NuGet packages as part of a supply chain attack targeting .NET developers. The sophisticated typosquatting campaign, which was detailed by JFrog late last month, impersonated legitimate packages to execute PowerShell code designed to retrieve a follow-on binary

A hacktivist group working with Russia claims it breached DELTA, the Ukrainian battlefield management system (BMS).

Over one million WordPress websites are estimated to have been infected by an ongoing campaign to deploy malware called Balada Injector since 2017. The massive campaign, per GoDaddy's Sucuri, "leverages all known and recently discovered theme and plugin vulnerabilities" to breach WordPress sites. The attacks are known to play out in waves once every few weeks. "This campaign is easily identified

Vulnerabilities in the device firmware and drivers underscore how printers cannot be set-and-forget technology and need to be managed.

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Categories: News Categories: Scams Tags: tax scams Tags: efile.com Tags: US tax 2023 Tags: backdoor Tags: Trojan Tags: Johannes Ullrich Tags: MalwareHunterTeam Tags: /u/SaltyPotter Tags: fake network error notification Cybercriminals have compromised eFile.com to host malicious code that allows for the download of Trojans. (Read more...) The post Visitors of tax return e-file service may have downloaded malware appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.