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U.S. Sanctions Firm Behind N. Korean IT Scheme; Arizona Woman Jailed for Running Laptop Farm [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a North Korean front company and three associated individuals for their involvement in the fraudulent remote information technology (IT) worker scheme designed to generate illicit revenues for Pyongyang. The sanctions target Korea Sobaeksu Trading Company (aka Sobaeksu United Corporation), and Kim Se…
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News brief: SharePoint attacks hammer globe
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.Read More
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Patchwork Targets Turkish Defense Firms with Spear-Phishing Using Malicious LNK Files [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The threat actor known as Patchwork has been attributed to a new spear-phishing campaign targeting Turkish defense contractors with the goal of gathering strategic intelligence. “The campaign employs a five-stage execution chain delivered via malicious LNK files disguised as conference invitations sent to targets interested in learning more about unmanned vehicle systems,” Arctic Wolf Labs…
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Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits Russian Aerospace Sector Using EAGLET Backdoor [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Russian aerospace and defense industries have become the target of a cyber espionage campaign that delivers a backdoor called EAGLET to facilitate data exfiltration. The activity, dubbed Operation CargoTalon, has been assigned to a threat cluster tracked as UNG0901 (short for Unknown Group 901). “The campaign is aimed at targeting employees of Voronezh Aircraft Production…
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How to discover and manage shadow APIs
Connecting applications, especially if external-facing, with unapproved APIs is a recipe for disaster. Detecting and managing shadow APIs is vital to keeping the company secure.Read More
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How to implement security control rationalization
Security control rationalization helps CISOs reduce cybersecurity tool sprawl, cut spending and improve efficiency — all without compromising protection.Read More
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Soco404 and Koske Malware Target Cloud Services with Cross-Platform Cryptomining Attacks [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat hunters have disclosed two different malware campaigns that have targeted vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across cloud environments to deliver cryptocurrency miners. The threat activity clusters have been codenamed Soco404 and Koske by cloud security firms Wiz and Aqua, respectively. Soco404 “targets both Linux and Windows systems, deploying platform-specific malware,” WizRead More
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Overcoming Risks from Chinese GenAI Tool Usage [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A recent analysis of enterprise data suggests that generative AI tools developed in China are being used extensively by employees in the US and UK, often without oversight or approval from security teams. The study, conducted by Harmonic Security, also identifies hundreds of instances in which sensitive data was uploaded to platforms hosted in China,…
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Proof-of-Concept Code Now Available for an Exploited Windows Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
FortiGuard Labs is aware that a Proof-of-Concept (POC) code for a newly patched Windows vulnerability (CVE-2022-21882) that is reported to have been exploited in the wild was released to a publicly available online repository. CVE-2022-21882 is a local privilege (LPE) escalation vulnerability which allows a local, authenticated attacker to gain elevated local system or administrator…
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Joint CyberSecurity Advisory Alert on PrintNightmare Vulnerability and Default MFA Protocols Exploited by Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Actors (AA22-074A)
FortiGuard Labs is aware of a recent report issued by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) that Russian state-sponsored cyber actors have gained network access to a non-governmental organization (NGO) through exploitation of default Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) protocols and the “PrintNightmare” vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527). The attack resulted in…
