New Botnet Plants Persistent Backdoors in ASUS Routers
Thousands of ASUS routers have been infected and are believed to be part of a wide-ranging ORB network affecting devices from Linksys, D-Link, QNAP, and Araknis Network.
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SentinelOne Reports Services Are Back Online After Global Outage
The outage reportedly hit 10 commercial customer consoles for SentinelOne’s Singularity platform, including Singularity Endpoint, XDR, Cloud Security, Identity, Data Lake, RemoteOps, and more.
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Zscaler’s Buyout of Red Canary Shows Telemetry’s Value
Red Canary’s MDR portfolio complements Zscaler’s purchase last year of Israeli startup Avalor, which automates collection, curation, and enrichment of security data.
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APT41 Uses Google Calendar Events for C2
APT41, a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor also known as “Double Dragon,” used Google Calendar as command-and-control infrastructure during a campaign last fall.
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PumaBot Targets Linux Devices in Latest Botnet Campaign
While the botnet may not be completely automated, it uses certain tactics when targeting devices that indicate that it may, at the very least, be semiautomated.
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LexisNexis Informs 360K+ Customers of Third-Party Data Leak
While the leak affected customer data, LexisNexis said in a notification letter that its products and systems were not compromised.
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Cybercriminals Target AI Users with Malware-Loaded Installers Posing as Popular Tools
Fake installers for popular artificial intelligence (AI) tools like OpenAI ChatGPT and InVideo AI are being used as lures to propagate various threats, such as the CyberLock and Lucky_Gh0$t ransomware families, and a new malware dubbed Numero. “CyberLock ransomware, developed using PowerShell, primarily focuses on encrypting specific files on the victim’s system,” Cisco Talos researcher…
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A Defense-in-Depth Approach for the Modern Era
By integrating intelligent network policies, zero-trust principles, and AI-driven insights, enterprises can create a robust defense against the next generation of cyber threats.
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New Windows RAT Evades Detection for Weeks Using Corrupted DOS and PE Headers
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off an unusual cyber attack that leveraged malware with corrupted DOS and PE headers, according to new findings from Fortinet. The DOS (Disk Operating System) and PE (Portable Executable) headers are essential parts of a Windows PE file, providing information about the executable. While the DOS header makes the…
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DragonForce Exploits SimpleHelp Flaws to Deploy Ransomware Across Customer Endpoints
The threat actors behind the DragonForce ransomware gained access to an unnamed Managed Service Provider’s (MSP) SimpleHelp remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, and then leveraged it to exfiltrate data and drop the locker on multiple endpoints. It’s believed that the attackers exploited a trio of security flaws in SimpleHelp (CVE-2024-57727, CVE-2024-57728, and CVE-2024-57726) that…