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Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.

Proxyjacking is an emerging, low-effort and high-reward attack for threat actors, with the potential for far-reaching implications.

The adversary behind the supply chain attack targeting 3CX deployed a second-stage implant specifically singling out a small number of cryptocurrency companies. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which has been internally tracking the versatile backdoor under the name Gopuram since 2020, said it observed an increase in the number of infections in March 2023 coinciding with the 3CX breach.

"Gopuram" is a backdoor that North Korea's Lazarus Group has used in some campaigns dating back to 2020, some researchers say.

By Deeba Ahmed Researchers warned that the campaign works through a network of fake websites that promote seemingly harmless crypto apps and other software. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New VPN Malvertising Attack Drops OpcJacker Crypto Stealer

North Korean hackers appear to have used the corrupted VoIP software to go after just a handful of crypto firms with “surgical precision.”

A piece of new information-stealing malware called OpcJacker has been spotted in the wild since the second half of 2022 as part of a malvertising campaign. "OpcJacker's main functions include keylogging, taking screenshots, stealing sensitive data from browsers, loading additional modules, and replacing cryptocurrency addresses in the clipboard for hijacking purposes," Trend Micro researchers

Critical security flaws in Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex are being exploited by various threat actors in hacks targeting unpatched systems. This entails the abuse of CVE-2022-46169 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2021-35394 (CVSS score: 9.8) to deliver MooBot and ShellBot (aka PerlBot), Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said in a report published this week. CVE-2022-46169 relates to a critical

Unknown threat actors are actively exploiting a recently patched security vulnerability in the Elementor Pro website builder plugin for WordPress. The flaw, described as a case of broken access control, impacts versions 3.11.6 and earlier. It was addressed by the plugin maintainers in version 3.11.7 released on March 22. "Improved code security enforcement in WooCommerce components," the

In a Solar Winds-like attack, compromised, digitally signed versions of 3CX DesktopApp are landing on user systems via the vendor's update mechanism.