New Malware Loader 'Verblecon' Infects Hacked PCs with Cryptocurrency Miners

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Russian Wiper Malware Likely Behind Recent Cyberattack on Viasat KA-SAT Modems

The cyberattack aimed at Viasat that temporarily knocked KA-SAT modems offline on February 24, 2022, the same day Russian military forces invaded Ukraine, is believed to have been the consequence of wiper malware, according to the latest research from SentinelOne. The findings come as the U.S. ...

Critical Bugs in Rockwell PLC Could Allow Hackers to Implant Malicious Code

Two new security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Rockwell Automation's programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and engineering workstation software that could be exploited by an attacker to inject malicious code on affected systems and stealthily modify automation processes. The flaws have ...

Chinese Hackers Target VMware Horizon Servers with Log4Shell to Deploy Rootkit

A Chinese advanced persistent threat tracked as Deep Panda has been observed exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware Horizon servers to deploy a backdoor and a novel rootkit on infected machines with the goal of stealing sensitive data. "The nature of targeting was opportunistic insofar ...

Results Overview: 2022 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation – Wizard Spider and Sandworm Edition

Threat actor groups like Wizard Spider and Sandworm have been wreaking havoc over the past few years – developing and deploying cybercrime tools like Conti, Trickbot, and Ryuk ransomware. Most recently, Sandworm (suspected to be a Russian cyber-military unit) unleashed cyberattacks against ...

North Korean Hackers Distributing Trojanized DeFi Wallet Apps to Steal Victims' Crypto

The North Korean state-backed hacking crew, otherwise known as the Lazarus Group, has been attributed to yet another financially motivated campaign that leverages a trojanized decentralized finance (DeFi) wallet app to distribute a fully-featured backdoor onto compromised Windows systems. The app, ...

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