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Microsoft warns of rising NOBELIUM credential attacks on defence sector

By Waqas The NOBELIUM group is also known as Midnight Blizzard. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft warns of rising NOBELIUM credential attacks on defence sector

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Ironscales Adds AI Assistant to Suss Out Phishing Attempts

The company says its Themis Co-pilot for Outlook helps recipients discern business email compromise attacks, reducing false positives for security staff.

20-Year-Old Chinese APT15 Finds New Life in Foreign Ministry Attacks

The notorious APT15 used common malware tools and a third-generation custom "Graphican" backdoor to continue its information gathering exploits, this time against foreign ministries.

ScarCruft Hackers Exploit Ably Service for Stealthy Wiretapping Attacks

The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft has been observed using an information-stealing malware with previous undocumented wiretapping features as well as a backdoor developed using Golang that exploits the Ably real-time messaging service. "The threat actor sent their commands through the Golang backdoor that is using the Ably service," the AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (

RHSA-2023:3742: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.13.0 security and bug fix update

Updated images that include numerous enhancements, security, and bug fixes are now available in Red Hat Container Registry for Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.13.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2020-16250: A flaw was found in Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”). In the affected versions of Vault, with the AWS Auth Method configured and under certain circumstances, the values relied upon by Vault to validate AWS IAM ident...

Critical 'nOAuth' Flaw in Microsoft Azure AD Enabled Complete Account Takeover

A security shortcoming in Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) Open Authorization (OAuth) process could have been exploited to achieve full account takeover, researchers said. California-based identity and access management service Descope, which discovered and reported the issue in April 2023, dubbed it nOAuth. "nOAuth is an authentication implementation flaw that can affect Microsoft Azure AD

Chinese Hacker Group 'Flea' Targets American Ministries with Graphican Backdoor

Foreign affairs ministries in the Americas have been targeted by a Chinese state-sponsored actor named Flea as part of a recent campaign that spanned from late 2022 to early 2023. The cyber attacks, per Broadcom's Symantec, involved a new backdoor codenamed Graphican. Some of the other targets included a government finance department and a corporation that markets products in the Americas as

RHEL confidential virtual machines on Azure: A technical deep dive

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 CVM Preview image for Azure confidential VMs has been released, and it represents an important step forward in confidential virtual machines. In this article, I focus on the changes Implemented to support the emerging confidential computing use-case, and some of the expected changes in the future. For this article, I'm using confidential virtual machines (CVMs) with the Technology Preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2, running as a guest on Microsoft Azure confidential VMs. This builds on my previous post in which I discussed the high-level requirements fo

The Reddit Files: Hackers Demand $4.5M Ransom and API Access Waiver

By Deeba Ahmed The hackers from the infamous BlackCat ransomware gang (also known as ALPHV) have claimed to have stolen 80GB of data from Reddit. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Reddit Files: Hackers Demand $4.5M Ransom and API Access Waiver

Experts Uncover Year-Long Cyber Attack on IT Firm Utilizing Custom Malware RDStealer

A highly targeted cyber attack against an East Asian IT company involved the deployment of a custom malware written in Golang called RDStealer. "The operation was active for more than a year with the end goal of compromising credentials and data exfiltration," Bitdefender security researcher Victor Vrabie said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News. Evidence gathered by the Romanian