NSFOCUS Security Labs recently discovered a new attack process based on phishing documents in their daily threat-hunting operations. Delving deeper into this finding through extensive research, they confirmed two new Trojan horse programs and many rare attack techniques and tactics. … AtlasCross designed a decoy document titled “Blood Drive September 2023.docm” with the United States […]
HC3: Sector AlertTLP:CLEARReport: 202309181700 Executive Summary Cisco Talos has published an open-source report regarding the North Korean state-sponsored actor, the Lazarus Group, reported to be targeting internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare entities in Europe and the United States. The attackers have been exploiting a vulnerability in ManageEngine products, which is tracked as CVE-2022-47966. This vulnerability […]
Hackers are targeting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SSL VPNs in credential stuffing and brute-force attacks that take advantage of lapses in security defenses, such as not enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA). Last week, BleepingComputer reported that the Akira ransomware gang was breaching Cisco VPNs for initial network access. Rapid7 security researchers have provided additional insights regarding these […]
Most data breaches involve some level of victim human error, which theoretically employee training can address. Human error can take the form of clicking on a link, where the email address of the sender is unknown to the person clicking on the link. Malware then enters the scene. Another common human error scenario involves phishing […]
