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The North Korea-aligned threat actor known as Andariel leveraged a previously undocumented malware called EarlyRat in attacks exploiting the Log4j Log4Shell vulnerability last year. "Andariel infects machines by executing a Log4j exploit, which, in turn, downloads further malware from the command-and-control (C2) server," Kaspersky said in a new report. Also called Silent Chollima and Stonefly,

Developers' enthusiasm for ChatGPT and other LLM tools leaves most organizations largely unprepared to defend against the vulnerabilities that the nascent technology creates.

By Waqas The research mainly aimed at examining VPNs, firewalls, access points, routers, and other remote server management appliances used by top government agencies in the United States. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Exposed Interfaces in US Federal Networks: A Breach Waiting to Happen

Categories: Business Tags: camera Tags: CCTV Tags: surveillance Tags: council Tags: organisation Tags: government Tags: local Tags: china Tags: vulnerability Tags: flaw Tags: fix Tags: patch Tags: update We take a look at a debate over who is responsible for ensuring surveillance systems are as secure as they can be. (Read more...) The post Surveillance camera insecurities argument comes to one inevitable conclusion: Always update appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

WordPress LearnDash LMS version 4.6.0 suffers from an insecure direct object reference vulnerability.

A new Android malware campaign has been observed pushing the Anatsa banking trojan to target banking customers in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Austria, and Switzerland since the start of March 2023. "The actors behind Anatsa aim to steal credentials used to authorize customers in mobile banking applications and perform Device-Takeover Fraud (DTO) to initiate fraudulent transactions," ThreatFabric

Categories: Business Ransomware is like that stubborn cold that you thought you kicked, but creeps back up determined to run amok again. (Read more...) The post Understanding ransomware reinfection: An MDR case study appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

An unknown cryptocurrency exchange located in Japan was the target of a new attack earlier this month to deploy an Apple macOS backdoor called JokerSpy. Elastic Security Labs, which is monitoring the intrusion set under the name REF9134, said the attack led to the installation of Swiftbelt, a Swift-based enumeration tool inspired by an open-source utility called SeatBelt. JokerSky was first

Categories: News Tags: IoT Tags: Linux Tags: OpenSSH Tags: trojan Tags: botnet Tags: IRC Tags: attack Tags: compromise Poorly configured Linux and Internet of Things (IoT) devices are at risk of compromise from a cryptojacking campaign. (Read more...) The post OpenSSH trojan campaign targets Linux systems and IoT devices appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

The newly discovered Chinese nation-state actor known as Volt Typhoon has been observed to be active in the wild since at least mid-2020, with the hacking crew linked to never-before-seen tradecraft to retain remote access to targets of interest. The findings come from CrowdStrike, which is tracking the adversary under the name Vanguard Panda. "The adversary consistently employed ManageEngine