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SUMMARY A large U.S. company with operations in China fell victim to a large-scale cyberattack earlier this year,…

Cloudflare Tunnels is just the latest legitimate cloud service that cybercriminals and state-sponsored threat actors are abusing to hide their tracks.

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The emerging threat actor, potentially a Chinese state-sponsored APT, is using the known exploit kit Moonshine in cross-platform attacks that deliver a previously undisclosed backdoor called "DarkNimbus" to ethnic minorities, including Tibetans.

A previously undocumented threat activity cluster dubbed Earth Minotaur is leveraging the MOONSHINE exploit kit and an unreported Android-cum-Windows backdoor called DarkNimbus to facilitate long-term surveillance operations targeting Tibetans and Uyghurs. "Earth Minotaur uses MOONSHINE to deliver the DarkNimbus backdoor to Android and Windows devices, targeting WeChat, and possibly making it a

The China-linked threat actor known as MirrorFace has been attributed to a new spear-phishing campaign mainly targeting individuals and organizations in Japan since June 2024. The aim of the campaign is to deliver backdoors known as NOOPDOOR (aka HiddenFace) and ANEL (aka UPPERCUT), Trend Micro said in a technical analysis. "An interesting aspect of this campaign is the comeback of a backdoor

Parasitic advanced persistent threat Secret Blizzard accesses another APT's infrastructure and steals what it has stolen from South Asian government and military targets.

About Elevation of Privilege – Windows Task Scheduler (CVE-2024-49039) vulnerability. It was released on November Microsoft Patch Tuesday and showed signs of exploitation in the wild right away. To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated attacker runs a specially crafted application on the target system. The attack can be performed from an AppContainer restricted environment. Using […]

Cybersecurity researchers are alerting to a software supply chain attack targeting the popular @solana/web3.js npm library that involved pushing two malicious versions capable of harvesting users' private keys with an aim to drain their cryptocurrency wallets. The attack has been detected in versions 1.95.6 and 1.95.7. Both these versions are no longer available for download from the npm

A novel backdoor malware and a loader that customizes payload names for each victim have been added to the threat group's cybercriminal tool set.