#backdoor

The threat actor uses commands from legitimate IIS logs to communicate with custom tools in a savvy bid to hide traces of its activity on victim machines.

A recently discovered hacking group known for targeting employees dealing with corporate transactions has been linked to a new backdoor called Danfuan. This hitherto undocumented malware is delivered via another dropper called Geppei, researchers from Symantec, by Broadcom Software, said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The dropper "is being used to install a new backdoor and other tools

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: PoC Tags: PoCs Tags: Leiden Tags: GitHub Tags: VirusTotal Tags: AbuseIPDB Researchers from Leiden University analyzed many thousands of Proof-of-Concepts and found that 10 percent of those they found on GitHub are malicious (Read more...) The post Fake Proof-of-Concepts used to lure security professionals appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Cybercriminal groups are targeting misconfigured Docker and Kubernetes clusters — or just automating the sign-up process for free trial accounts — to build infrastructure for cryptomining.

Setting priorities for internal security measures and outsourcing complex practices help protect small and midsize businesses.

A new cryptojacking campaign has been uncovered targeting vulnerable Docker and Kubernetes infrastructures as part of opportunistic attacks designed to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike dubbed the activity Kiss-a-dog, with its command-and-control infrastructure overlapping with those associated with other groups like TeamTNT, which are known to strike misconfigured

The North Korean espionage-focused actor known as Kimsuky has been observed using three different Android malware strains to target users located in its southern counterpart. That's according to findings from South Korean cybersecurity company S2W, which named the malware families FastFire, FastViewer, and FastSpy. "The FastFire malware is disguised as a Google security plugin, and the

The threat actor behind a remote access trojan called RomCom RAT has been observed targeting Ukrainian military institutions as part of a new spear-phishing campaign that commenced on October 21, 2022.  The development marks a shift in the attacker's modus operandi, which has been previously attributed to spoofing legitimate apps like Advanced IP Scanner and pdfFiller to drop backdoors on

The mission to run any containerized application on any infrastructure makes security a challenge on Kubernetes.

A cybercrime group known as Vice Society has been linked to multiple ransomware strains in its malicious campaigns aimed at the education, government, and retail sectors. The Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence team, which is tracking the threat cluster under the moniker DEV-0832, said the group avoids deploying ransomware in some cases and rather likely carries out extortion using