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A suspected Iranian threat activity cluster has been linked to attacks aimed at Israeli shipping, government, energy, and healthcare organizations as part of an espionage-focused campaign that commenced in late 2020. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant is tracking the group under its uncategorized moniker UNC3890, which is believed to conduct operations that align with Iranian interests. "The collected

A novel data exfiltration technique has been found to leverage a covert ultrasonic channel to leak sensitive information from isolated, air-gapped computers to a nearby smartphone that doesn't even require a microphone to pick up the sound waves. Dubbed GAIROSCOPE, the adversarial model is the latest addition to a long list of acoustic, electromagnetic, optical, and thermal approaches devised by

Novel ransomware was created with the Go open source programming language, demonstrating how malware authors increasingly are opting to employ the flexible coding language.

Budget Android device models that are counterfeit versions associated with popular smartphone brands are harboring multiple trojans designed to target WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business messaging apps. The trojans, which Doctor Web first came across in July 2022, were discovered in the system partition of at least four different smartphones: P48pro, radmi note 8, Note30u, and Mate40, was "These

Organizations in the Spanish-speaking nations of Mexico and Spain are in the crosshairs of a new campaign designed to deliver the Grandoreiro banking trojan.  "In this campaign, the threat actors impersonate government officials from the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City and from the Public Ministry in the form of spear-phishing emails in order to lure victims to download and execute '

The Donot Team threat actor has updated its Jaca Windows malware toolkit with improved capabilities, including a revamped stealer module designed to plunder information from Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers. The improvements also include a new infection chain that incorporates previously undocumented components to the modular framework, Morphisec researchers Hido Cohen and Arnold

Categories: Threat Intelligence High detections of hacking tools for the Business Services industry shows that attackers likely sought to infect businesses and install backdoors for future access to their customers. (Read more...) The post Business Services industry targeted across the country for backdoor access appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Threat Intelligence In the first quarter of 2021, the US public sector dealt with heavy-hitting breaches against local, federal, and state government networks. (Read more...) The post Attackers waited until holidays to hit US government appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Information on the attributed cyberattacks conducted since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war shows that a handful of groups conducted more than two dozen attacks.

A suspected Iranian threat actor known as UNC3890 is gathering intel that could be used for kinetic strikes against global shipping targets.