What is Threat Intelligence? – All You Need to Know About Cyber Threat Intelligence
Blog Cyber threat intelligence is a crucial aspect of cybersecurity and is becoming increasingly important as threats evolve and become more sophisticated. In this content, prepared by ThreatMon experts, we will explore cyber threat intelligence and its benefits to organizations and provide an overview of threat intelligence platforms. Businesses need to understand that relying solely […]
Cisco Has Been Hacked by Yanluowang Ransomware Group
Blog Cisco has confirmed that the Yanluowang ransomware group has breached the company’s network and that the actor has attempted to extort the stolen files under threat of leaking them online. Cisco said on May 24, 2022 that it became aware of a possible compromise. CyberKnow Twitter It was determined that a Cisco employee had […]
USA Offers $10M Bounty for Providing Information on the Conti Ransomware Gang
Blog As part of the Justice Awards program, the US State Department announced that a $10 million reward will be offered for information on five high-ranking Conti ransomware members, including the first reveal of one of the members’ face. The program is a State Department program with monetary rewards for information on threat actors that […]
PyPI Package ‘secretslib’ Drops Fileless Cryptominer to Linux Systems
Blog PyPI Package ‘secretslib’ Drops Fileless Cryptominer to Linux Systems A PyPI package named “secretslib” has been identified by Sonatype, which describes itself as “secret mapping and verification made easy”. The package secretly runs cryptominers in the memory of the Linux machine, a technique largely used by fileless malware and cryptominers. Secretslib was downloaded 93 […]
Microsoft Has Disrupted SEABORGIUM’s Ongoing Phishing Operation
Blog The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has taken action and taken measures to disrupt the campaigns launched by the SEABORGIUM actor, which has been tracked since 2017. SEABORGIUM is a threat actor with goals aligned with the interests of the Russian state. SEABORGIUM is a threat actor that often targets the same organizations over […]
Kaspersky Published a Report on Malicious Browser Extensions
Blog Kaspersky analyzed threat statistics by processing data voluntarily shared by its users for the period from January 2020 to June 2022. According to this data, during the first half of this year, 1,311,557 users tried to download malicious or unwanted extensions at least once. From January 2020 to June 2022, nearly 70 percent of users […]
13 Organizations Targeted by Chinese-Linked APT41 and a New Wave of Cobalt Strike Infections
Blog APT41, one of the state-sponsored ex-hacker groups, breached government networks in six US states in March 2022, including by exploiting a vulnerability in a livestock management system, according to Mandiant researchers. Cybersecurity firm Group-IB’s investigations resulted in nearly 80 proactive notifications of APT41 attacks against their infrastructure to private and government organizations worldwide. The […]
WordPress Sites Hacked with Fake Cloudflare DDoS Alerts
Blog DDoS protection pages typically verify whether the site visitor is actually a human or part of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack or other unwanted bot. Bad bots make up a large portion of web traffic. These include DDoS traffic, scrapers scavenging email addresses to send spam, bots trying to find vulnerable websites […]
CISA Warning Against Active Exploitation of Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS Vulnerability
Blog CISA added Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS to its Catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities based on evidence of active exploitation This critical vulnerability is tracked with code CVE-2022-0028 (CVSS: 8.6 High). The vulnerability is the misconfiguration of a URL filtering policy. Misconfiguration of the PAN-OS URL filtering policy could allow a network-based attacker to perform […]
Iranian Threat Actor MERCURY Exploits Log4j 2 Vulnerabilities in Unpatched Systems
Blog The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team found that Iran-based threat actor MERCURY exploited Log4j 2 vulnerabilities in SysAid applications. The threat actor targets organizations that are all based in Israel. After gaining access, MERCURY maintains persistence, flushes credentials, and moves laterally within the targeted organization using both proprietary […]