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By Deeba Ahmed The 8220 gang, believed to be of Chinese origins, was first identified in 2017 by Cisco Talos when they targeted Drupal, Hadoop YARN, and Apache Struts2 applications for propagating cryptojacking malware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 8220 Gang Targets Telecom and Healthcare in Global Cryptojacking Attack

Relive Talos' top stories from the past year as we recap the top malware and other threats that came our way.

A new wave of phishing messages distributing the QakBot malware has been observed, more than three months after a law enforcement effort saw its infrastructure dismantled by infiltrating its command-and-control (C2) network. Microsoft, which made the discovery, described it as a low-volume campaign that began on December 11, 2023, and targeted the hospitality industry. "Targets

A new botnet consisting of firewalls and routers from Cisco, DrayTek, Fortinet, and NETGEAR is being used as a covert data transfer network for advanced persistent threat actors, including the China-linked threat actor called Volt Typhoon. Dubbed KV-botnet by the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies, the malicious network is an amalgamation of two complementary activity

Everyone's New Year's Resolution should be to stop using passwords altogether.

The 2023 Talos Year in Review is full of insights on how the threat landscape has evolved. But what does that mean for defenders? This blog contains recommendations on how to gain more visibility across your network.

Jenkins OpenId Connect Authentication Plugin 2.6 and earlier improperly determines that a redirect URL after login is legitimately pointing to Jenkins, allowing attackers to perform phishing attacks.

Missing permission checks in Jenkins PaaSLane Estimate Plugin 1.0.4 and earlier allow attackers with Overall/Read permission to connect to an attacker-specified URL using an attacker-specified token.

A missing permission check in Jenkins Scriptler Plugin 342.v6a_89fd40f466 and earlier allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to read the contents of a Groovy script by knowing its ID.

A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Jenkins HTMLResource Plugin 1.02 and earlier allows attackers to delete arbitrary files on the Jenkins controller file system.