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The firmware threat offers ultimate stealth and persistence — and may be distributed via tainted firmware components in a supply chain play, researchers theorize.

Several threat actors used Amadey Bot previously to steal information and distribute malware such as the GandCrab ransomware and the FlawedAmmy RAT.

An unknown Chinese-speaking threat actor has been attributed to a new kind of sophisticated UEFI firmware rootkit called CosmicStrand. "The rootkit is located in the firmware images of Gigabyte or ASUS motherboards, and we noticed that all these images are related to designs using the H81 chipset," Kaspersky researchers said in a new report published today. "This suggests that a common

By Deeba Ahmed If exploited, the flaw could have allowed an attacker to hijack the device’s camera and microphone to spy… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Flaws in Enabot Ebo Air Home Security Robot Allowed Attackers to Spy on Users

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 15 and July 22. 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, indicators of compromise, and discussing how our customers are automatically protected from these threats. As a reminder, the information provided for the following threats in this post is non-exhaustive and current as of the date of publication. Additionally, please keep in mind that IOC searching is only one part of threat hunting. Spotting a single IOC does not necessarily indicate maliciousness. Detection and coverage for the following threats is subject to updates, pending additional threat or vulnerability analysis. For the most current information, please refer to your Firepower Management Center, Snort.org, or ClamAV.net. For each threat described below, this blog post only lists 2...

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  I could spend time in this newsletter every week talking about fake news. There are always so many ridiculous memes, headlines, misleading stories, viral Facebook posts and manipulated media that I see come across my Instagram feed or via my wife when she shows me TikToks she favorited.  One recent event, though, was so crushing to me that I had to call it out specifically. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated earlier this month while making a campaign speech in public. This was a horrible tragedy marking the death of a powerful politician in one of the world’s most influential countries. It was the top story in the world for several days and was even more shocking given Japan’s strict gun laws and the relative infrequency of any global leaders being the target of violence.  It took no time for the internet at large to take this tragedy and immediately try to spin it to the...

By Deeba Ahmed The pro-Ukraine groups thought they were fighting back against Russia with a new DDoS app, but it turns… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: App Meant to Hit Russia with DDoS Attack Infected Android Phones of Ukraine Activists

The threat group 8220 Gang's cryptocurrency miner and botnet reach has exploded to 30,000 global hosts, a notable increase over the past month, researchers say.

The 8220 cryptomining group has expanded in size to encompass as many as 30,000 infected hosts, up from 2,000 hosts globally in mid-2021. "8220 Gang is one of the many low-skill crimeware gangs we continually observe infecting cloud hosts and operating a botnet and cryptocurrency miners through known vulnerabilities and remote access brute forcing infection vectors," Tom Hegel of SentinelOne

Tools purporting to help organizations recover lost passwords for PLCs are really droppers for malware targeting industrial control systems, vendor says.