Schneider Electric has confirmed a developer platform was breached after a threat actor claimed to steal 40GB of data from the company's JIRA server.

In a rather novel attack chain, attackers deploy a custom-made emulated QEMU Linux box to persist on endpoints, delivered through phishing emails.

Health care breaches lead to legislation
Highlights of the new standard include:

• Performing and documenting a security risk analysis of exposure
• Documentation of a business continuity plan (BCP)
• Stress test of resiliency and documentation of any planned changes to the BCP
• A signed statement by both the CEO and CISO of compliance
• A third-party audit to certify compliance (no later than six months after enactment)

• ThreatLabz has developed a tool named SmokeBuster to detect, analyze, and remediate infections.
• SmokeBuster supports 32-bit and 64-bit instances of SmokeLoader and versions 2017-2022. The tool is compatible with Windows 7 to Windows 11.
• SmokeLoader is a malware downloader that originated in 2011. The malware is primarily designed to deliver second-stage payloads, which include information stealers and ransomware.
• Despite a major disruption by Operation Endgame in May 2024, SmokeLoader continues to be used by numerous threat groups largely due to numerous cracked versions publicly available on the internet.
• The last four versions of SmokeLoader contain coding flaws that significantly impact an infected system’s performance.

In the last few days, many Tor relay operators - mainly hosting relay nodes on providers like Hetzner - began receiving abuse notices.
All the abuses reported many failed SSH login attempts - part of a brute force attack - coming from their Tor relays.

Tor relays normally only transport traffic between a guard and an exit node of the Tor network, and per-se should not perform any SSH connections to internet-facing hosts, let alone performing SSH brute force attacks.

The president and former prime minister were among targets of hackers selling highly sensitive data.

Le ministère du Travail et de l’Emploi a pris connaissance de la violation du système d’information, porté par un prestataire de services, utilisé par le réseau des Missions locales.

Cette cyber-attaque a eu lieu dans la nuit du 23 octobre 2024 au 24 octobre 2024.

Des investigations sont en cours chez le prestataire pour connaître l’origine de cet évènement. La sécurité des systèmes d’information du réseau des Missions locales elles-mêmes n’est pas en cause.

AEP GmbH was the victim of a targeted cyber attack on October 28, which led to the partial encryption of the company's IT systems. The company's own security systems detected the attack. The company provides information about this on its website.

The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years.

A vulnerability categorized as “critical” in a photo app installed by default on Synology network-attached storage devices could give attackers the ability to steal data and worse.

Discover the latest insights on the Quad7 / 7777 botnet in our detailed analysis. Learn about the expansion of this resilient threat, its targeting patterns, and proactive measures to defend against compromised routers. Stay informed with our up-to-date findings and recommendations.

Uncover the secrets of the Quad7 botnet and its ever-evolving toolset. Learn about the new backdoors and protocols used by these operators.

Since August 2023, Microsoft has observed intrusion activity targeting and successfully stealing credentials from multiple Microsoft customers that is enabled by highly evasive password spray attacks. Microsoft has linked the source of these password spray attacks to a network of compromised devices we track as CovertNetwork-1658, also known as xlogin and Quad7 (7777). Microsoft is […]

Sophos X-Ops unveils five-year investigation tracking China-based groups targeting perimeter devices

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Apple has issued patches for several of its operating systems. The ones for iOS and iPadOS deserve your immediate attention.

APT29 aka Midnight Blizzard recently attempted to phish thousands of people. Building on work by CERT-UA, Amazon recently identified internet domains abused by APT29, a group widely attributed to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). In this instance, their targets were associated with government agencies, enterprises, and militaries, and the phishing campaign was apparently aimed at […]

Since October 22, 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard sending a series of highly targeted spear-phishing emails to individuals in government, academia, defense, non-governmental organizations, and other sectors. This activity is ongoing, and Microsoft will continue to investigate and provide updates as available. Based on our investigation of previous Midnight […]

Analyse the ClickFix tactic and related campaigns. Uncover a ClickFix campaign impersonating Google Meet and cybercrime infrastructure.

• Trend Micro researchers observed an attacker exploiting the Atlassian Confluence vulnerability CVE-2023-22527 to achieve remote code execution for cryptomining via the Titan Network.
• The malicious actor used public IP lookup services and various system commands to gather details about the compromised machine.
• The attack involved downloading and executing multiple shell scripts to install Titan binaries and connect to the Titan Network with the attacker’s identity.
• The malicious actor connects compromised machines to the Cassini Testnet, which allows them to participate in the delegated proof of stake system for reward tokens.