Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2022
North Korea-linked threat actor SharpTongue is using a malicious extension on Chromium-based web browsers to spy on victims’ email accounts. North Korea-linked actor SharpTongue has been using a malicious extension on Chromium-based web browsers to spy on victims’ Gmail and AOL email accounts. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Volexity tracked the threat actors as SharpTongue, but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2022
The U.S. State Department increased rewards for information on any North Korea-linked threat actors to $10 million. In April 2020, the U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a joint advisory that is warning organizations worldwide about the ‘significant cyber threat’ posed by the North Korean nation-state actors […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2022
North Korea-linked APT37 group targets high-value organizations in the Czech Republic, Poland, and other countries. Researchers from the Securonix Threat Research (STR) team have uncovered a new attack campaign, tracked as STIFF#BIZON, targeting high-value organizations in multiple countries, including Czech Republic, and Poland. The researchers attribute this campaign to the North Korea-linked APT37 group, aka […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2022
A threat actor tracked as TA4563 is using EvilNum malware to target European financial and investment entities. A threat actor, tracked as TA4563, leverages the EvilNum malware to target European financial and investment entities, Proofpoint reported. The group focuses on entities with operations supporting foreign exchanges, cryptocurrency, and decentralized finance (DeFi). The EvilNum is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2022
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium blames multiple China-linked threat actors for attacks against The country’s defense and interior ministries. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium revealed that multiple China-linked APT groups targeted the country’s defense and interior ministries. “Belgium exposes malicious cyber activities that significantly affected our sovereignty, democracy, security and society at large by targeting the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2022
Russia-linked threat actors APT29 are using the Google Drive cloud storage service to evade detection. Palo Alto Networks researchers reported that the Russia-linked APT29 group, tracked by the researchers as Cloaked Ursa, started using the Google Drive cloud storage service to evade detection. The Russia-linked APT29 group (aka SVR, Cozy Bear, and The Dukes) has been active since at least […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2022
Researchers from Proofpoint warn that various APT groups are targeting journalists and media organizations since 2021. Proofpoint researchers warn that APT groups are regularly targeting and posing as journalists and media organizations since early 2021. The media sector is a privileged target for this category of attackers due to the access its operators have to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2022
Threat actors are abusing legitimate adversary simulation software BRc4 in their campaigns to evade detection. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 discovered that a sample uploaded to the VirusTotal database on May 19, 2022 and considered benign by almost all the antivirus, was containing a payload associated with Brute Ratel C4 (BRc4), a new red-teaming and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2022
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is suspected to be behind the recent hack of the Harmony Horizon Bridge. Recently, threat actors have stolen $100 million in cryptocurrency from the Blockchain company Harmony. The company reported the incident to the authorities, the FBI is investigating the cyber heist with the help of several cybersecurity firms. Harmony’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2022
China-linked APT Bronze Starlight is deploying post-intrusion ransomware families as a diversionary action to its cyber espionage operations. Researchers from Secureworks reported that a China-linked APT group, tracked as Bronze Starlight (APT10), is deploying post-intrusion ransomware families to cover up the cyber espionage operations. The experts observed an activity cluster involving post-intrusion ransomware such as […]
