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Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 6 and May 13. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

A spear-phishing campaign targeting Jordan's foreign ministry has been observed dropping a new stealthy backdoor dubbed Saitama. Researchers from Malwarebytes and Fortinet FortiGuard Labs attributed the campaign to an Iranian cyber espionage threat actor tracked under the moniker APT34, citing resemblances to past campaigns staged by the group. "Like many of these attacks, the email contained a

A firmware update vulnerability exists in the iburn firmware checks functionality of InHand Networks InRouter302 V3.5.37. A specially-crafted HTTP request can lead to firmware update. An attacker can send a sequence of requests to trigger this vulnerability.

The European Commission on Wednesday proposed new regulation that would require tech companies to scan for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and grooming behavior, raising worries that it could undermine end-to-end encryption (E2EE). To that end, online service providers, including hosting services and communication apps, are expected to proactively scan their platforms for CSAM as well as

At least one group of threat actors is using the recently patched vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP to wipe the file system of vulnerable devices. The post F5 BIG-IP vulnerability is now being used to disable servers appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added the recently disclosed F5 BIG-IP flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog following reports of active abuse in the wild. The flaw, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-1388 (CVSS score: 9.8), concerns a critical bug in the BIG-IP iControl REST endpoint that provides an unauthenticated adversary with a method to

Malicious emails with macro-enabled Word documents are spreading a never-before-seen remote-access Trojan, researchers say.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a number of malicious packages in the NPM registry specifically targeting a number of prominent companies based in Germany to carry out supply chain attacks. "Compared with most malware found in the NPM repository, this payload seems particularly dangerous: a highly-sophisticated, obfuscated piece of malware that acts as a backdoor and allows the

On April 26th, we identified a suspicious email that targeted a government official from Jordan’s foreign ministry. The email contained a malicious Excel document that drops a new backdoor named Saitama. Following our investigation, we were able to attribute this attack to the known Iranian Actor APT34. Also known as OilRig/COBALT GYPSY/IRN2/HELIX KITTEN, APT34 is... The post APT34 targets Jordan Government using new Saitama backdoor appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.