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China-linked FamousSparrow APT group resurfaces with enhanced capabilities

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China-linked FamousSparrow APT group resurfaces with enhanced capabilities 2025-03-26 at 17:02 By Help Net Security ESET investigated suspicious activity on the network of a trade group in the United States that operates in the financial sector. While helping the affected entity remediate the compromise, they made an unexpected discovery in the victim’s system: malicious tools […]

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Google fixes exploited Chrome sandbox bypass zero-day (CVE-2025-2783)

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Google fixes exploited Chrome sandbox bypass zero-day (CVE-2025-2783) 2025-03-26 at 13:08 By Zeljka Zorz Google is in the process of rolling out Chrome v134.0.6998.178 to Windows users to fix CVE-2025-2783, a zero-day vulnerability that allowed attackers to to bypass Chrome sandbox protections. The vulnerability was flagged by Kaspersky researchers, who discovered it being exploited by

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Chinese APT Weaver Ant Targeting Telecom Providers in Asia

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Chinese APT Weaver Ant Targeting Telecom Providers in Asia 2025-03-25 at 13:54 By Ionut Arghire Weaver Ant, a cyberespionage-focused APT operating out of China, is targeting telecom providers for persistent access. The post Chinese APT Weaver Ant Targeting Telecom Providers in Asia appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Chinese I-Soon Hackers Hit 7 Organizations in Operation FishMedley

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Chinese I-Soon Hackers Hit 7 Organizations in Operation FishMedley 2025-03-21 at 14:16 By Ionut Arghire The FishMonger APT group, a subdivision of Chinese cybersecurity firm I-Soon, compromised seven organizations in a 2022 campaign. The post Chinese I-Soon Hackers Hit 7 Organizations in Operation FishMedley appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek

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APTs have been using zero-day Windows shortcut exploit for eight years (ZDI-CAN-25373)

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APTs have been using zero-day Windows shortcut exploit for eight years (ZDI-CAN-25373) 2025-03-19 at 16:00 By Zeljka Zorz State-sponsored threat actors and cybercrime groups from North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China have been exploiting a zero-day Windows vulnerability with no fix in sight for the last eight years, researchers with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

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11 State-Sponsored APTs Exploiting LNK Files for Espionage, Data Theft

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11 State-Sponsored APTs Exploiting LNK Files for Espionage, Data Theft 2025-03-18 at 16:02 By Eduard Kovacs ZDI has uncovered 1,000 malicious .lnk files used by state-sponsored and cybercrime threat actors to execute malicious commands. The post 11 State-Sponsored APTs Exploiting LNK Files for Espionage, Data Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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North Korean Hackers Distributed Android Spyware via Google Play

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North Korean Hackers Distributed Android Spyware via Google Play 2025-03-13 at 15:01 By Eduard Kovacs The North Korea-linked APT37 has been observed targeting Android users with spyware distributed via Google Play. The post North Korean Hackers Distributed Android Spyware via Google Play appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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1,600 Victims Hit by South American APT’s Malware

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1,600 Victims Hit by South American APT’s Malware 2025-03-11 at 14:08 By Ionut Arghire South American cyberespionage group Blind Eagle has infected over 1,600 organizations in Colombia in a recent campaign. The post 1,600 Victims Hit by South American APT’s Malware appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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China-based Silver Fox spoofs healthcare app to deliver malware

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China-based Silver Fox spoofs healthcare app to deliver malware 2025-02-25 at 18:33 By Zeljka Zorz Silver Fox, a China-based threat actor that may or may not be backed by the Chinese government, has been delivering the ValleyRAT backdoor to unsuspecting users by disguising the malware as legitimate healthcare app (the Philips DICOM viewer), a Windows

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A PostgreSQL zero-day was also exploited in US Treasury hack (CVE-2025-1094)

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A PostgreSQL zero-day was also exploited in US Treasury hack (CVE-2025-1094) 2025-02-17 at 15:49 By Zeljka Zorz The suspected Chinese state-sponsored hackers who breached workstations of several US Treasury employees in December 2024 did so by leveraging not one, but two zero-days, according to Rapid7 researchers. It was initially reported that the attackers compromised the

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Sandworm APT’s initial access subgroup hits organizations accross the globe

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Sandworm APT’s initial access subgroup hits organizations accross the globe 2025-02-13 at 15:34 By Zeljka Zorz A subgroup of Russia’s Sandworm APT has been working to achieve initial and persistent access to the IT networks of organizations working in economic sectors Russia is interested in. “In 2022, its primary focus was Ukraine, specifically targeting the

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Can AI Early Warning Systems Reboot the Threat Intel Industry?

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Can AI Early Warning Systems Reboot the Threat Intel Industry? 2025-02-10 at 13:02 By Ryan Naraine News analysis: The big AI platforms are emerging as frontline early warning systems, detecting nation-state hackers at the outset of their campaigns. Can this help save the threat intel industry? The post Can AI Early Warning Systems Reboot the

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China-aligned PlushDaemon APT compromises supply chain of Korean VPN

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China-aligned PlushDaemon APT compromises supply chain of Korean VPN 2025-01-22 at 08:04 By Help Net Security ESET researchers have uncovered a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean VPN provider, carried out by PlushDaemon, a newly identified China-aligned APT group. In this cyberespionage campaign, the attackers compromised the legitimate installer, replacing it with a malicious

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RomCom hackers chained Firefox and Windows zero-days to deliver backdoor

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RomCom hackers chained Firefox and Windows zero-days to deliver backdoor 2024-11-26 at 12:18 By Zeljka Zorz Russia-aligned APT group RomCom was behind attacks that leveraged CVE-2024-9680, a remote code execution flaw in Firefox, and CVE-2024-49039, an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows Task Scheduler, as zero-days earlier this year. “Chaining together two zero-day vulnerabilities armed

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Faraway Russian hackers breached US organization via Wi-Fi

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Faraway Russian hackers breached US organization via Wi-Fi 2024-11-25 at 19:03 By Zeljka Zorz Forest Blizzard, a threat group associated with Russia’s GRU military intelligence service, repeatedly breached a US-based organization via compromised computer systems of nearby firms, which they leveraged to authenticate to the target’s enterprise Wi-Fi network. The repeated attacks Volexity, a company

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Researchers unearth two previously unknown Linux backdoors

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Researchers unearth two previously unknown Linux backdoors 2024-11-21 at 12:12 By Help Net Security ESET researchers have identified multiple samples of two previously unknown Linux backdoors: WolfsBane and FireWood. The goal of the backdoors and tools discovered is cyberespionage that targets sensitive data such as system information, user credentials, and specific files and directories. These

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Sailing Into Danger: DONOT APT’s Attack on Maritime & Defense Manufacturing

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Sailing Into Danger: DONOT APT’s Attack on Maritime & Defense Manufacturing 2024-11-15 at 12:49 By rohansinhacyblecom Key Takeaways Overview CRIL recently came across a campaign seemingly aimed at Pakistan’s manufacturing industry, which supports the country’s maritime and defense sectors. After analyzing the files involved in the campaign, it was determined that the attack was linked

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FBI confirms China-linked cyber espionage involving breached telecom providers

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FBI confirms China-linked cyber espionage involving breached telecom providers 2024-11-14 at 14:16 By Zeljka Zorz After months of news reports that Chinese threat actors have breached the networks of US telecommunications and internet service providers, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have confirmed the success of the attacks, which were part

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Aerospace employees targeted with malicious “dream job” offers

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Aerospace employees targeted with malicious “dream job” offers 2024-11-13 at 12:49 By Zeljka Zorz It’s not just North Korean hackers who reach out to targets via LinkedIn: since at least September 2023, Iranian threat actor TA455 has been trying to compromise workers in the aerospace industry by impersonating job recruiters on the popular employment-focused social

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