Since mid-September 2024, our telemetry has revealed a significant increase in “Lumma Stealer”1 malware deployments via the “HijackLoader”2 malicious loader.
On October 2, 2024, HarfangLab EDR detected and blocked yet another HijackLoader deployment attempt – except this time, the malware sample was properly signed with a genuine code-signing certificate.
In response, we initiated a hunt for code-signing certificates (ab)used to sign malware samples. We identified and reported more of such certificates. This report briefly presents the associated stealer threat, outlines the methodology for hunting these certificates, and providees indicators of compromise.
Two individuals behind the Anonymous Sudan cybercriminal group were indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice, which acknowledged AWS for its contributions.
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the takedown of Anonymous Sudan, a prolific entity in the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) space who are known especially for their politically motivated hacktivism. This takedown is a huge step toward making the internet a safer place, and it required significant effort from multiple parties, including Akamai.
A federal grand jury indictment unsealed today charges two Sudanese nationals with operating and controlling Anonymous Sudan, an online cybercriminal group responsible for tens of thousands of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against critical infrastructure, corporate networks, and government agencies in the United States and around the world.
Austrian security authorities have identified a Swiss man as the suspect in a series of emails containing bomb threats.
A notorious hacker named USDoD, who is linked to the National Public Data and InfraGard breaches, has been arrested by Brazil's Polícia Federal in
