Security researchers from ESET have discovered a new custom backdoor they dubbed MQsTTang and attributed it to the advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Mustang Panda. Writing in an advisory published on March 2, 2023, ESET malware researcher, Alexandre Côté Cyr explained the new backdoor is part of an ongoing campaign the company traced back to early January.
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ESET researchers tease apart MQsTTang, a new backdoor used by Mustang Panda, which communicates via the MQTT protocol ESET researchers have analyzed MQsTTang, a new custom backdoor that we attribute to the Mustang Panda APT group. This backdoor is part of an ongoing campaign that we can trace back to early January 2023. Unlike most
Mar 03, 2023Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / IoT A pair of serious security defects has been disclosed in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 reference library specification that could potentially lead to information disclosure or privilege escalation. One of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-1017, concerns an out-of-bounds write, while the other, CVE-2023-1018, is described as an out-of-bounds read.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has repeated calls for an urgent review into government ministers’ use of private messaging apps for official business, after 100,000 WhatsApp messages were leaked to a newspaper. The messages had been shared by former health secretary Matt Hancock with right-wing journalist Isabel Oakeshott so she could ghost write his Pandemic Diaries
Russian government officials will no longer be able to use messaging apps developed and run by foreign companies, according to a new law which went into force yesterday. Parts 8–10 of Article 10 of the new law – On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection – apply to government agencies and organizations. “The law establishes
British high street chain WH Smith has revealed earlier today it was hit by a cyber-attack that resulted in the theft of company data. In particular, the stationery and book chain said current and former employee data was accessed by the threat actors, including names, addresses, dates of birth and national insurance numbers. WH Smith
by Naked Security writer Dutch police announced late last week that they’d arrested three young men, aged between 18 and 21, suspected of cybercrimes involving breaking in, stealing data, and then demanding hush money. The charges include: computer intrusion, data theft, extortion, blackmail, and money laundering. The trio were actually arrested a month earlier, back
by Paul Ducklin There’s no date on the update, but as far as we can make out, LastPass just [2023-02-27] published a short document entitled Incident 2 – Additional details of the attack. As you probably remember, because the bad news broke just before the Christmas holiday season in December 2022, LastPass suffered what’s known
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the trends that defined the cyberthreat landscape in the final four months of 2022. Data from the latest ESET Threat Report, which provides an in-depth look at the threat landscape from September to December 2022, confirmed several previously observed trends. The key of
Mar 02, 2023The Hacker NewsBrowser Security As a primary working interface, the browser plays a significant role in today’s corporate environment. The browser is constantly used by employees to access websites, SaaS applications and internal applications, from both managed and unmanaged devices. A new report published by LayerX, a browser security vendor, finds that attackers
Mar 02, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Security / Cryptojacking Misconfigured Redis database servers are the target of a novel cryptojacking campaign that leverages a legitimate and open source command-line file transfer service to implement its attack. “Underpinning this campaign was the use of transfer[.]sh,” Cado Security said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “It’s possible
Mar 02, 2023Ravie LakshmananContainer Security / Cyber Threat A sophisticated attack campaign dubbed SCARLETEEL is targeting containerized environments to perpetrate theft of proprietary data and software. “The attacker exploited a containerized workload and then leveraged it to perform privilege escalation into an AWS account in order to steal proprietary software and credentials,” Sysdig said in
The European Commission has banned the use of the TikTok application on its corporate devices, as well as on personal devices, enrolled in the Commission’s mobile device service. According to a blog post published by the Commission on Thursday, the move aims to protect the Commission against cybersecurity threats. “The measure is in line with Commission
by Paul Ducklin Thanks to Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry of @mysk_co for the impetus and information behind this article. The duo describe themselves as “two iOS developers and occasional security researchers on two continents.” In other words, although cybersecurity isn’t their core business, they’re doing what we wish all programmers would do: not
SMBs need to not only reduce their odds of being hit by an attack, but also implement processes that they can follow if their defenses are breached The prevalence of cyberattacks continues to rise, with our telemetry showing a 13% increase in cyberthreat detections in 2022 year-on-year. While the news tends to feature breaches involving
Feb 24, 2023The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Cybersecurity The use of AI in cybersecurity is growing rapidly and is having a significant impact on threat detection, incident response, fraud detection, and vulnerability management. According to a report by Juniper Research, the use of AI for fraud detection and prevention is expected to save businesses $11
Google Play Store’s new Data Safety labels have been criticized for being inaccurate in nearly 80% of cases. The claims come from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included researchers, who published a new study about them on Thursday. “[We] found that the labels were false or misleading based on discrepancies between the apps’ privacy policies and the
ESET Research has compiled a timeline of cyberattacks that used wiper malware and have occurred since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 This blogpost presents a compiled overview of the disruptive wiper attacks that we have observed in Ukraine since the beginning of 2022, shortly before the Russian military invasion started. We were able to
Feb 24, 2023The Hacker NewsCybersecurity Webinar / SaaS Security Are you prepared to tackle the top SaaS challenges of 2023? With high-profile data breaches affecting major companies like Nissan and Slack, it’s clear that SaaS apps are a prime target for cyberattacks. The vast amounts of valuable information stored in these apps make them a
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned nations’ defenders yesterday against disruptive and defacement attacks today. These, the agency said on Thursday, may spur from attempts to sow chaos and societal discord on the anniversary of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. “In response to the heightened geopolitical tensions resulting from Russia’s full-scale invasion
With the conflict in Ukraine passing the one-year mark, have its cyber-war elements turned out as expected? It’s been twelve months since Russia invaded Ukraine, and it’s a good time to pause and reflect on a few pertinent issues, including: How is the war playing out in cyberspace? Have the cyber-elements turned out as expected?
Feb 24, 2023Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Firmware Google said it’s working with ecosystem partners to harden the security of firmware that interacts with Android. While the Android operating system runs on what’s called the application processor (AP), it’s just one of the many processors of a system-on-chip (SoC) that cater to various tasks like cellular
A payload of the Wslink downloader named WinorDLL64 has been linked to the North Korea-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) known as Lazarus Group. The connection was made by cybersecurity researchers at Eset, who published an article about it earlier today. “Wslink […] is a loader for Windows binaries that, unlike other such loaders, runs as
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The targeted region, and overlap in behavior and code, suggest the tool is used by the infamous North Korea-aligned APT group ESET researchers have discovered one of the payloads of the Wslink downloader that we uncovered back in 2021. We named this payload WinorDLL64 based on its filename WinorDLL64.dll. Wslink, which had the filename WinorLoaderDLL64.dll,
Feb 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Cryptocurrency Trojanized versions of legitimate applications are being used to deploy evasive cryptocurrency mining malware on macOS systems. Jamf Threat Labs, which made the discovery, said the XMRig coin miner was executed as Final Cut Pro, a video editing software from Apple, which contained an unauthorized modification. “This malware
More than four out of five (84%) codebases contain at least one known open source vulnerability. The figures come from Synopsys’ new Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report (OSSRA), which mentions an almost 4% increase compared to last year. The research document also mentions a 163% growth in the edtech sector’s adoption of open
by Paul Ducklin Johnathan Swift is probably most famous for his novel Gulliver’s Travels, during which the narrator, Lemuel Gulliver, encounters a socio-political schism in Liiliputian society caused by unending arguments over whether you should open a boiled egg at the big end or the little end. This satirical observation has flowed diretly into modern
It’s never been easier to write a convincing message that can trick you into handing over your money or personal data ChatGPT has been taking the world by storm, having reached 100 million users only two months after launching. However, media stories about the tool’s uncanny ability to write human-sounding text mask a potentially darker reality.
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