Analysts from AhnLab, a company specialized in cybersecurity, revealed the spread of a new but already known virus called BitRAT. What is BitRAT? BitRAT, a malware classified as a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) is being distributed to users looking to…
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A New Backdoor and a Unique Attack Chain – Slithering Serpent
A new email campaign attacking French entities uses a highly evasive attack chain. The phishing campaign is installing a new backdoor named Serpent. Initial details The sophisticated threat actor is leveraging a unique amalgamation of open-source software, which is a…
Botnet Malware jeopardises over 2,00,000 Mikro Tik routers
Mikro Tik’s vulnerable routers have been used in one of the largest botnet-as-a-service cybercrime, according to cybersecurity researchers. Avast published a new piece of research that states a cryptocurrency mining attack using the new-disrupted Glupteba botnet and the infamous TrickBot…
New Browser-in-the Browser (BITB) Attack Makes Phishing Nearly Undetectable
Can web browsers protect us, even if it is HTTPS? Maybe yes, but not with the novel BitB attack, which fakes us by a popup SSO window to phish the credentials for Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Before clicking wily-nily on…
Gh0stCringe Targets Weakly Configured Microsoft SQL, MySQL Servers
Researchers have identified that the actors behind the Gh0stCringe remote access trojan are targeting Microsoft SQL and MySQL database servers. Gh0stCringe, which is thought to be active since 2018, is a known variant of Gh0st RAT malware. A recent report…
Dell BIOS bugs impact millions of Inspiron, Vostro, XPS, Alienware systems.
Five new vulnerabilities have been found in Dell BIOS; if the vulnerabilities are successfully exploited, the systems can have codes executed remotely. The Dell vulnerability is another firmware vulnerability recently uncovered in Insyde Software’s InsydeH2O and HP Unified Extensible Firmware…
iPhone feature being used in “CryptoRom” scam
Social engineering attacks have been using romantic traps and cryptocurrency tricks to lure victims into installing duplicate apps. These attacks use legitimate iOS features like TestFlight and Web Clips to get into the system. Sophos, a cybersecurity company, has called…
Attackers can get out of Kubernetes containers because of a vulnerability in CRI-O engine
Attackers can exploit a previously unknown security vulnerability in the Kubernetes container engine CRI-O labelled cr8escape. The attacker can exploit the vulnerability to escape the container and get root access to the host. “Invocation of CVE-2022-0811 can allow an attacker…
Watch Out! Threat actors are spreading the BazarLoader malware via website contact forms
Researchers from cybersecurity firm Abnormal Security observed threat actors spreading the BazarLoader/BazarBackdoor malware via website contact forms rather than typical phishing emails to evade detection by security software. The backdoor malware is developed by the TrickBot group and has been…
Attackers Crash Remote Servers with New Infinite Loop Bug in OpenSSL
The maintainers of OpenSSL have dispatched patches to resolve a high-severity security flaw in its software library that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition when parsing certificates. Tracked as CVE-2022-0778 (CVSS score: 7.5), the issue stems from parsing a…