Microsoft said Iranian state hackers are using a newly developed backdoor to target organizations in the American defense industrial base. The Iranian state threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Peach Sandstorm employed a custom backdoor named FalseFont, which features several capabilities that empower backdoor operators to remotely connect to a compromised system, initiate the execution […]
Hackers aligned with the Iranian state are targeting vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers to deploy a new malware backdoor that has already victimized over two dozen Israeli organizations as part of an ongoing espionage campaign. The campaign has been active since 2021 and uses a previously unseen malware backdoor that researchers at Eset dubbed Sponsor. The […]
The Russian Turla hacker group has targeted the Ukrainian defense sector and other Eastern European entities with a novel backdoor, dubbed DeliveryCheck, to deploy secondary payloads likely used for espionage, according to Microsoft. Security researchers at Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence said DeliveryCheck is .NET-based malware distributed through email that contains documents containing malicious macros. The Computer […]
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