Suspected North Korean hackers trojanized installers of a voice and video calling desktop client made by 3CX and used by major multinational companies. The vulnerability traces to a poisoned Electron software library file, an open-source framework for user interfaces.
Leaked documents from a Moscow IT consultancy reveal how the Russian government has commissioned tools for its military and intelligence agencies for conducting cyber operations, information warfare, and controlling the internet, as well as training critical infrastructure hackers.
North Korean hackers are stealing cryptocurrency to fund operations under an apparent mandate from Pyongyang to be self-sufficient, threat intel firm Mandiant says. The regime probably expected its hackers to pay their own way before 2020, but the novel coronavirus pandemic exacerbated its demands.
The U.S. government limited its use of advanced surveillance software such as Pegasus through an executive order prohibiting agencies from buying licenses for spyware used by foreign governments to spy on dissidents. The order does not outright stop the government from purchasing spyware.
The United States sent its top cyber offensive team to NATO ally Albania to help secure the nation's critical infrastructure networks. The Cyber National Mission Force helped find cyberthreats and vulnerabilities on networks likely targeted last year by Iranian threat actors.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss how Russia's invasion of Ukraine upended the cybercrime ecosystem, a lawsuit against a U.S. cardiovascular clinic that seeks a long list of security improvements, and the latest endpoint protection technology trends in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
Security researchers uncovered a Pakistani cyberespionage group employing fresh tactics to target workers at India's Defense Research and Development Organization and steal sensitive military secrets. A new campaign uses a PowerPoint file containing information about the India-developed K-4 missile.
Europe's cybersecurity agency predicts hackers will take advantage of the growing overlap between information and operational technologies in the transport sector and disrupt OT processes in a targeted attack. Ransomware will become a tool wielded for political and financial motivations, says ENISA.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 threw Russia's cybercrime ecosystem into a state of upheaval that still exists to this day. "We identified disruptions to literally every single form of commodified cybercrime," said Alexander Leslie, associate threat intelligence analyst at Recorded Future.
Last year was another bonanza in zero-days for Chinese state hackers, say security researchers in a report predicting a permanent uptick in nation-state exploitation of yet-unpatched vulnerabilities. "Attackers seek stealth and ease of exploitation," writes cybersecurity firm Mandiant.
What happens next in Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine isn't clear, but experts have been tracking signs that Moscow may be preparing for intensified cyber operations ahead of a spring offensive, developing new wiper malware and getting ready to interfere in European elections and foreign policy.
Microsoft's March dump of patches fixes two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, including a critical issue in Outlook that Russian threat actor APT28 has used to target European companies. The vulnerability can be exploited before a user views the email in the Preview Pane.
In the latest "Proof of Concept" panel discussion, two Capitol Hill observers at Venable, Grant Schneider and Jeremy Grant, join Information Security Media Group editors to break down the Biden administration's new U.S. national cybersecurity strategy and answer the question, "Is it really viable?"
Business social media platform LinkedIn continues to pay dividends for North Korean hackers, including one group historically concentrated on South Korean targets that has expanded into pursuing security researchers and media industry workers in the West.
As Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year stalled, Russian hacking teams increasingly shifted from causing all-out disruption to cyberespionage, data theft and psychological operations, Ukraine's cybersecurity establishment says in a new lessons learned report.
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