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Incident response (IR) is a race against time. You engage your internal or external team because there's enough evidence that something bad is happening, but you’re still blind to the scope, the impact, and the root cause. The common set of IR tools and practices provides IR teams with the ability to discover malicious files and outbound network connections. However, the identity aspect - namely

The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) on Friday announced the seizure of online infrastructure that was used to sell a remote access trojan (RAT) called Warzone RAT. The domains – www.warzone[.]ws and three others – were "used to sell computer malware used by cybercriminals to secretly access and steal data from victims' computers," the DoJ said. Alongside the takedown, the

Plus: China’s Volt Typhoon hackers lurked in US systems for years, the Biden administration’s crackdown on spyware vendors ramps up, and a new pro-Beijing disinformation campaign gets exposed.

Apple macOS users are the target of a new Rust-based backdoor that has been operating under the radar since November 2023. The backdoor, codenamed RustDoor by Bitdefender, has been found to impersonate an update for Microsoft Visual Studio and target both Intel and Arm architectures. The exact initial access pathway used to propagate the implant is currently not known, although

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202402-11 - Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities have been found in libxml2. Versions greater than or equal to 2.12.5 are affected.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0749-03 - An update for unbound is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include an integer overflow vulnerability.

2023 saw a 70% increase in ransomware attacks from 2022.

Threat hunters have identified a new variant of Android malware called MoqHao that automatically executes on infected devices without requiring any user interaction. "Typical MoqHao requires users to install and launch the app to get their desired purpose, but this new variant requires no execution," McAfee Labs said in a report published this week. "While the app is

By Waqas The backdoor impersonates a Visual Studio update. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Rust-Based macOS Backdoor Steals Files, Linked to Ransomware Groups

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