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Void Balaur explained—a stealthy cyber mercenary group that spies on thousands
Unlike other groups, Void Balaur will target individuals and organizations in Russian-speaking countries and seems to have intimate knowledge of telecom systems.
SolarWinds CISO: Know your adversary, what they want, watch everything
The compromise of SolarWinds' Orion software changed the company's approach to security. Tim Brown shares some hard-won advice for how CISOs and software vendors should prepare for supply chain attacks.
Russian cyberspies target cloud services providers and resellers to abuse delegated access
A new Microsoft advisory claims Russia's Nobelium group is trying to gain long-term access to the technology supply chain and offers mitigation advice.
Iranian APT targets aerospace and telecom firms with stealthy ShellClient Trojan
The MalKamak group has been running its Operation GhostShell campaign for at least three years unnoticed.
APT29 targets Active Directory Federation Services with stealthy backdoor
The FoggyWeb post-exploitation backdoor is persistent and steals configuration databases and security token certificates.
APT actors exploit flaw in ManageEngine single sign-on solution
US government agencies urge immediate action to look for indicators of compromise and, if found, take recommended steps to mitigate.
How APTs become long-term lurkers: Tools and techniques of a targeted attack
A new McAfee report details the tools and techniques an APT group used to go undetected on a client network for over a year.
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APT group hits IIS web servers with deserialization flaws and memory-resident malware
Praying Mantis group is likely a nation-state actor that uses custom malware and is adept at avoiding detection.
CISA: China successfully targeted US oil and natural gas infrastructure
CISA alert details past network compromises and exposes a lack of preparedness among ICS companies.
Biden administration, US allies condemn China's malicious hacking, espionage actions
Global coalition calls on China to curtail its cyber activities. For the first time, the US blames China directly for ransomware attacks.
US charges four suspected Chinese spies who coordinated APT40 hackers
The government outlines how APT40 conducted its Microsoft Exchange Server attack and offers advice to defend against nation-state threats.
Tips and tactics of today's cybersecurity threat hunters
Having internal threat hunting capability is becoming a necessity for many organizations. Here are the most common things they look for and how they respond to incidents.
Spy groups hack into companies using zero-day flaw in Pulse Secure VPN
Known and unknown groups are using VPN vulnerabilities to circumvent authentication and establish backdoors.
FBI cleans web shells from hacked Exchange servers in rare active defense move
The FBI has been deleting backdoors placed by cyberespionage group Hafnium on Microsoft Exchange servers. The court order allowing them to do so signals a more active defense approach.
US sanctions Russian government, security firms for SolarWinds breach, election interference
The Biden administration places economic sanctions on Russian government organizations, individuals, and companies including several security firms.
US government calls for better information sharing in wake of SolarWinds, Exchange attacks
The Biden administration seeks ways to better gather and share security intelligence from the private sector, but experts see barriers to success.
Chinese cyberespionage group hacks US organizations with Exchange zero-day flaws
Microsoft believes Chinese APT group Hafnium is using a set of previously unknown Exchange Server vulnerabilities to access mailbox contents and perform remote code execution.
