Red team tool ‘MacroPack’ abused in attacks to deploy Brute Ratel

The MacroPack framework, initially designed for Red Team exercises, is being abused by threat actors to deploy malicious payloads, including Havoc, Brute Ratel, and PhatomCore. Security researchers at Cisco Talos have analyzed malicious document submissions on VirusTotal from various countries, including the United States, Russia, China, and Pakistan. These documents varied in their lures, sophistication, and infection […]

US cracks down on Russian disinformation before 2024 election

Image: MidjourneyToday, the U.S. Justice Department said the FBI seized 32 web domains used by the Doppelgänger Russian-linked influence operation network in a disinformation campaign targeting the American public ahead of this year’s presidential election. According to court documents, Doppelgänger is believed to be linked to Russian companies Social Design Agency (SDA), Structura National Technology […]

Cisco fixes root escalation vulnerability with public exploit code

Cisco has fixed a command injection vulnerability with public exploit code that lets attackers escalate privileges to root on vulnerable systems. Tracked as CVE-2024-20469, the security flaw was found in Cisco’s Identity Services Engine (ISE) solution, an identity-based network access control and policy enforcement software that enables network device administration and endpoint access control in […]

New Eucleak attack lets threat actors clone YubiKey FIDO keys

A new “EUCLEAK” flaw found in FIDO devices using the Infineon SLE78 security microcontroller, like Yubico’s YubiKey 5 Series, allows attackers to extract Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) secret keys and clone the FIDO device. NinjaLab’s Thomas Roche, who discovered the flaw and devised the EUCLEAK side-channel attack, notes that the side channel can retrieve […]

Zyxel warns of critical OS command injection flaw in routers

Zyxel has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting multiple models of its business routers, potentially allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform OS command injection. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-7261 and assigned a CVSS v3 score of 9.8 (“critical”), is an input validation fault caused by improper handling of user-supplied data, allowing remote attackers […]

FBI warns crypto firms of aggressive social engineering attacks

​The FBI warned today of North Korean hacking groups aggressively targeting cryptocurrency companies and their employees in sophisticated social engineering attacks to deploy malware designed to steal their crypto assets. According to the FBI, their social engineering tactics are highly targeted and difficult to detect, even for those with advanced cybersecurity expertise. Over the last several […]

Transport for London discloses ongoing “cyber security incident”

Image: Transport for LondonTransport for London (TfL), the city’s transport authority, is investigating an ongoing cyberattack that has yet to impact its services. The agency says that, for the moment, there is no evidence that customer information was compromised during the incident. “We are currently dealing with an ongoing cyber security incident,” TfL’s Customer Information Team […]