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Bleeping Computer
The MuddyWater Iranian hackers disguised their operations as a Chaos ransomware attack, relying on Microsoft Teams social engineering to gain access and establish persistence. [...]
Bleeping Computer
A pro-Russian hacktivist group called TwoNet pivoted in less than a year from launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to targeting critical infrastructure. [...]
Dark Reading
Seemingly innocent "white pages," including an elaborate Star Wars-themed site, are bypassing Google's malvertising filters, showing up high in search results to lure users to second-stage phishing sites.
The Hacker News
Details have emerged about a "massive ad fraud operation" that leverages hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store to perform a host of nefarious activities. The campaign has been codenamed Konfety – the Russian word for Candy – owing to its abuse of a mobile advertising software development kit (SDK) associated with a Russia-based ad network called CaramelAds. "Konfety represents a new form of
The Hacker News
Russian organizations are at the receiving end of cyber attacks that have been found to deliver a Windows version of a malware called Decoy Dog. Cybersecurity company Positive Technologies is tracking the activity cluster under the name Operation Lahat, attributing it to an advanced persistent threat (APT) group called HellHounds. "The Hellhounds group compromises organizations they select and
The Hacker News
A new phishing campaign is leveraging decoy Microsoft Word documents as bait to deliver a backdoor written in the Nim programming language. "Malware written in uncommon programming languages puts the security community at a disadvantage as researchers and reverse engineers' unfamiliarity can hamper their investigation," Netskope researchers Ghanashyam Satpathy and Jan Michael Alcantara
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The Hacker News
A deeper analysis of a recently discovered malware called Decoy Dog has revealed that it's a significant upgrade over the Pupy RAT, an open-source remote access trojan it's modeled on. "Decoy Dog has a full suite of powerful, previously unknown capabilities – including the ability to move victims to another controller, allowing them to maintain communication with compromised machines and remain
Dark Reading
At least three actors are using the new, improved version, prompting researchers to conclude it was likely developed by a nation-state.
Bleeping Computer
New details have emerged about Decoy Dog, a largely undetected sophisticated toolkit likely used for at least a year in cyber intelligence operations, relying on the domain name system (DNS) for command and control activity. [...]