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A 22-year-old New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for participating in a firebombing and a shooting at homes in Pennsylvania last year. Patrick McGovern-Allen was the subject of a Sept. 4, 2022 story here about the emergence of "violence-as-a-service" offerings, where random people from the Internet hire themselves out to perform a variety of local, physical attacks, including firebombing a home, "bricking" windows, slashing tires, or performing a drive-by shooting at someone's residence.

The threat actor known as DoNot Team has been linked to the use of a novel .NET-based backdoor called Firebird targeting a handful of victims in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which disclosed the findings in its APT trends report Q3 2023, said the attack chains are also configured to deliver a downloader named CSVtyrei, so named for its resemblance to Vtyrei. "Some

The open-source remote access trojan known as Quasar RAT has been observed leveraging DLL side-loading to fly under the radar and stealthily siphon data from compromised Windows hosts. "This technique capitalizes on the inherent trust these files command within the Windows environment," Uptycs researchers Tejaswini Sandapolla and Karthickkumar Kathiresan said in a report published last week,

Categories: Business On September 13th, 2023, the Malwarebytes MDR team spotted a new DarkGate malware campaign on a client network. (Read more...) The post Battling a new DarkGate malware campaign with Malwarebytes MDR appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

By Owais Sultan Installing Microsoft Exchange Updates can be a challenging task, as it may lead to various issues in the… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to Install Microsoft Exchange Updates with Reliability

Categories: News Tags: week Tags: security Tags: October Tags: 2023 A list of topics we covered in the week of October 16 to October 22 of 2023 (Read more...) The post A week in security (October 16 - October 22) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

By Deeba Ahmed The cybersecurity researchers at WithSecure have identified a connection between Vietnamese DuckTail infostealer and DarkGate malware. KEY FINDINGS… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Vietnamese DarkGate Malware Targets META Accounts in the UK, USA, India

By Waqas Global law enforcement involving 11 countries has shuts down Ragnar Locker ransomware gang. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ragnar Locker Ransomware Gang Dismantled, Key Suspect Arrested, Site Seized

SolarWinds' access controls contain five high and three critical-severity security vulnerabilities that need to be patched yesterday.

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 13 and Oct. 20. 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