Tag: Cloud

A threat actor known as Zestix has been offering to sell corporate data stolen from dozens of companies likely after breaching their ShareFile, Nextcloud, and OwnCloud instances. According to cybercrime intelligence company Hudson Rock, initial access may have been obtained through credentials collected by info-stealing malware such as RedLine, Lumma, and Vidar deployed on employee devices. The three […]

The Zeroday Cloud hacking competition in London has awarded researchers $320,000 for demonstrating critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in components used in cloud infrastructure. The first hacking event focused on cloud systems, the competition is hosted by Wiz Research in partnership with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google Cloud. The researchers were successful in 85% of the […]

The Amazon Threat Intelligence team has disrupted active operations attributed to hackers working for the Russian foreign military intelligence agency, the GRU, who targeted customers’ cloud infrastructure. The cloud services provider observed a focus on Western critical infrastructure, especially the energy sector, in activity that started in 2021. Over time, the threat actor pivoted from exploiting […]

The ‘Crimson Collective’ threat group has been targeting AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud environments for the past weeks, to steal data and extort companies. The hackers claimed responsibility for the recent Red Hat attack, saying that they exfiltrated 570 GB of data from thousands of private GitLab repositories, and pressured the software company to pay a ransom. Following […]

A threat actor targeting exposed Docker APIs has updated its malicious tooling with more dangerous functionality that could lay the foundation for a complex botnet. The activity was first reported in June by cybersecurity company Trend Micro. whose researchers analyzed scripts and malicious code that dropped a cryptominer and relied on the Tor network to hide […]