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By Deeba Ahmed An unidentified Chinese APT group is suspected of operating the Mélofée malware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mélofée: The Latest Malware Targeting Linux Servers

By Deeba Ahmed The new MacStealer malware is being advertised on a notorious Russian hacker and cybercrime forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Beware of MacStealer: A New Malware Targeting macOS Catalina Devices

An unknown Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has been linked to a novel piece of malware aimed at Linux servers. French cybersecurity firm ExaTrack, which found three samples of the previously documented malicious software that date back to early 2022, dubbed it Mélofée. One of the artifacts is designed to drop a kernel-mode rootkit that's based on an open source project referred to as

This Metasploit module exploits an undocumented backdoor vulnerability in the Optergy Proton and Enterprise Building Management System (BMS) applications. Versions 2.0.3a and below are vulnerable. Attackers can exploit this issue by directly navigating to an undocumented backdoor script called Console.jsp in the tools directory and gain full system access. Successful exploitation results in root command execution using sudo as user optergy.

An advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has a track record of targeting India and Afghanistan has been linked to a new phishing campaign that delivers Action RAT. According to Cyble, which attributed the operation to SideCopy, the activity cluster is designed to target the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), the research and development wing of India's Ministry of

By Deeba Ahmed The backdoors used in this campaign are never-before-seen malware strains called CommonMagic and PowerMagic. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Backdoor Attack Uses Russian-Ukrainian Conflict Phishing Emails

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between March 17 and March 24. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key

A recent campaign undertaken by Earth Preta indicates that nation-state groups aligned with China are getting increasingly proficient at bypassing security solutions. The threat actor, active since at least 2012, is tracked by the broader cybersecurity community under Bronze President, HoneyMyte, Mustang Panda, RedDelta, and Red Lich. Attack chains mounted by the group commence with a

Telecommunication providers in the Middle East are the subject of new cyber attacks that commenced in the first quarter of 2023. The intrusion set has been attributed to a Chinese cyber espionage actor associated with a long-running campaign dubbed Operation Soft Cell based on tooling overlaps. "The initial attack phase involves infiltrating Internet-facing Microsoft Exchange servers to deploy

German and South Korean government agencies have warned about cyber attacks mounted by a threat actor tracked as Kimsuky using rogue browser extensions to steal users' Gmail inboxes. The joint advisory comes from Germany's domestic intelligence apparatus, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), and South Korea's National Intelligence Service of the Republic of Korea (NIS