A Russian domestic intelligence agency hacking group known for prolonged logon credential phishing campaigns against Western targets is now deploying malware embedded into PDFs, say security researchers from Google. Authorities from the United States and United Kingdom in December linked the hacking group Google tracks as “Coldriver” to the Federal Security Service, Russia’s successor to […]
High-profile individuals working on Middle Eastern affairs at universities and research organizations in Belgium, France, Gaza, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S. have been targeted by an Iranian cyber espionage group called Mint Sandstorm since November 2023. The threat actor “used bespoke phishing lures in an attempt to socially engineer targets into downloading malicious files,” […]
For the past 11 months a threat group has been targeting employees in various companies with phishing emails that distribute an open-source trojan program called AsyncRAT. The targets included companies managing key infrastructure in the US. According to AT&T’s Alien Labs cybersecurity division, the attackers’ command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure uses a domain generation algorithm (DGA) to […]
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