Russian aerospace and defense industries have become the target of a cyber espionage campaign that delivers a backdoor called EAGLET to facilitate data exfiltration. The activity, dubbed Operation CargoTalon, has been assigned to a threat cluster tracked as UNG0901 (short for Unknown Group 901). “The campaign is aimed at targeting employees of Voronezh Aircraft Production…
National governments warn that many hacker groups attract young people through a sense of community, fame, or the promise of money and the perception of a lack of risk of prosecution.
Threat hunters have disclosed two different malware campaigns that have targeted vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across cloud environments to deliver cryptocurrency miners. The threat activity clusters have been codenamed Soco404 and Koske by cloud security firms Wiz and Aqua, respectively. Soco404 “targets both Linux and Windows systems, deploying platform-specific malware,” Wiz
A recent analysis of enterprise data suggests that generative AI tools developed in China are being used extensively by employees in the US and UK, often without oversight or approval from security teams. The study, conducted by Harmonic Security, also identifies hundreds of instances in which sensitive data was uploaded to platforms hosted in China,…
FortiGuard Labs has detected and successfully blocked hundreds of exploitation attempts targeting a newly discovered zero-day vulnerability chain in on-premises Microsoft SharePoint servers. This active campaign is being exploited by multiple threat actors and poses a significant risk to a wide range of sectors including government, education, healthcare, and large enterprises.
FortiGuard Labs is aware that a Proof-of-Concept (POC) code for a newly patched Windows vulnerability (CVE-2022-21882) that is reported to have been exploited in the wild was released to a publicly available online repository. CVE-2022-21882 is a local privilege (LPE) escalation vulnerability which allows a local, authenticated attacker to gain elevated local system or administrator…
FortiGuard Labs is aware of a recent report issued by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) that Russian state-sponsored cyber actors have gained network access to a non-governmental organization (NGO) through exploitation of default Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) protocols and the “PrintNightmare” vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527). The attack resulted in…
Newly appointed Amazon Web Services CISO Amy Herzog believes security culture goes beyond frameworks and executive structures. Having the right philosophy throughout the organization is key.
The arrest of a suspected administrator for the popular cybercrime forum was one of several enforcement actions in the past week targeting malicious activity.
Storm-2603, a China-based threat actor, is targeting SharePoint customers in an ongoing ransomware campaign.