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Known threat groups Diamond Sleet and Onyx Sleet focus on cyber espionage, data theft, network sabotage, and other malicious actions, Microsoft says.

The state-sponsored threat actors (aka APT34, Crambus, Helix Kitten, or OilRig) spent months seemingly taking whatever government data they wished, using never-before-seen tools.

An updated version of a sophisticated backdoor framework called MATA has been used in attacks aimed at over a dozen Eastern European companies in the oil and gas sector and defense industry as part of a cyber espionage operation that took place between August 2022 and May 2023. "The actors behind the attack used spear-phishing mails to target several victims, some were infected with Windows

By Deeba Ahmed Researchers report a surge in QR code-related cyberattacks exploiting phishing and malware distribution, especially QRLJacking and Quishing attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Exploit QR Codes with QRLJacking for Malware Distribution

The Iran-linked OilRig threat actor targeted an unnamed Middle East government between February and September 2023 as part of an eight-month-long campaign. The attack led to the theft of files and passwords and, in one instance, resulted in the deployment of a PowerShell backdoor called PowerExchange, the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, said in a report shared with The Hacker News

North Korean threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in JetBrains TeamCity to opportunistically breach vulnerable servers, according to Microsoft. The attacks, which entail the exploitation of CVE-2023-42793 (CVSS score: 9.8), have been attributed to Diamond Sleet (aka Labyrinth Chollima) and Onyx Sleet (aka Andariel or Silent Chollima). It's worth noting that both the

**1\. When will an update be available to address this vulnerability?** Microsoft is fully aware of this issue and is actively working to release version 8.4.0 of curl.exe in a future Windows update for currently supported, on-premise versions of Windows clients and servers. The Security Updates table for this CVE will be updated with the Windows update KB numbers for all supported versions as they are released. Customers will be notified via a revision to this security vulnerability when those KB numbers are available. If you wish to be notified when these updates are released, we recommend that you register for the security notifications mailer to be alerted of content changes to this CVE. See Microsoft Technical Security Notifications and Security Update Guide Notification System News: Create your profile now – Microsoft Security Response Center. **2\. What is the curl open-source project?** Curl is a computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (...

**1\. When will an update be available to address this vulnerability?** Microsoft is fully aware of this issue and is actively working to release version 8.4.0 of curl.exe in a future Windows update for currently supported, on-premise versions of Windows clients and servers. The Security Updates table for this CVE will be updated with the Windows update KB numbers for all supported versions as they are released. Customers will be notified via a revision to this security vulnerability when those KB numbers are available. If you wish to be notified when these updates are released, we recommend that you register for the security notifications mailer to be alerted of content changes to this CVE. See Microsoft Technical Security Notifications and Security Update Guide Notification System News: Create your profile now – Microsoft Security Response Center. **2\. What is the curl open-source project?** Curl is a computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (...

Under the Security Appraisal Framework and Enablement (SAFE) program, device manufacturers will be able to work with approved auditors to verify firmware.