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Ransomware attacks have been ramping up in 2023 and reinfections are occurring all over the globe, forcing lean IT teams to prepare. (Read more...) The post Ransomware reinfections on the rise from improper remediation appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Plus: Stolen US State Department emails, $20 million zero-day flaws, and controversy over the EU’s message-scanning law.

By Deeba Ahmed Previously, when the group exploited LinkedIn, it managed to pilfer a staggering $625 million from the Ronin Network (RON) blockchain network. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Lazarus APT Exploiting LinkedIn to Target Spanish Aerospace Firm

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been linked to a cyber espionage attack targeting an unnamed aerospace company in Spain in which employees of the firm were approached by the threat actor posing as a recruiter for Meta. "Employees of the targeted company were contacted by a fake recruiter via LinkedIn and tricked into opening a malicious executable file presenting itself as a coding

Cybersecurity agencies from Japan and the U.S. have warned of attacks mounted by a state-backed hacking group from China to stealthily tamper with branch routers and use them as jumping-off points to access the networks of various companies in the two countries. The attacks have been tied to a malicious cyber actor dubbed BlackTech by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of

Government and telecom entities have been subjected to a new wave of attacks by a China-linked threat actor tracked as Budworm using an updated malware toolset. The intrusions, targeting a Middle Eastern telecommunications organization and an Asian government, took place in August 2023, with the adversary deploying an improved version of its SysUpdate toolkit, the Symantec Threat Hunter Team,

By Waqas Malicious code disguised as Dependabot contributions hits hundreds of GitHub repositories. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Malware Concealed as Dependabot Contributions Strikes GitHub Projects

A new threat actor known as AtlasCross has been observed leveraging Red Cross-themed phishing lures to deliver two previously undocumented backdoors named DangerAds and AtlasAgent. NSFOCUS Security Labs described the adversary as having a "high technical level and cautious attack attitude," adding that "the phishing attack activity captured this time is part of the attacker's targeted strike on

A "multi-year" Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage campaign has been observed targeting South Korean academic, political, and government organizations. Recorded Future's Insikt Group, which is tracking the activity under the moniker TAG-74, said the adversary has been linked to "Chinese military intelligence and poses a significant threat to academic, aerospace and defense, government,

By Waqas Stealth Falcon APT group is notorious for its cyber-espionage campaigns in the Middle East. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Deadglyph: A New Backdoor Linked to Stealth Falcon APT in the Middle East