Daily Cyber Brief

4/14/22

Cybersecurity

Anonymous claims it hacked 700GB leaked Russian gov’t data

The “hacktivist” group known as Anonymous claimed on Monday to have hacked and leaked more than 700GB of Russian government data. The hackers also claimed they breached the emails and data of Aerogas, a Russian state-backed oil and gas company…

Feds warn of ‘exceptionally rare and dangerous’ malware targeting industrial control systems

Multiple U.S. government agencies issued a joint alert Wednesday warning of the discovery of malicious cyber tools created by unnamed advanced threat actors that they said were capable of gaining “full system access” to multiple industrial control systems. The public alert from…

Microsoft Exposes Evasive Chinese Tarrask Malware Attacking Windows Computers

The Chinese-backed Hafnium hacking group has been linked to a piece of a new malware that's used to maintain persistence on compromised Windows environments. The threat actor is said to have targeted entities in the telecommunication, internet service provider and data…

Microsoft uses court order to disrupt ZLoader botnet

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it used a court order to shut down a criminal botnet called ZLoader. The tech giant said in a blog post that its Digital Crimes Unit got a court order from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia that allowed…

Identifying a Vulnerability in the SAP Software Supply Chain

Software supply chain attacks, also called value-chain or third-party attacks, are emerging threats. This type of attack is often carried out by infiltrating a third party or outside partner that has access to your systems. Typically, the attacker's intent is to access source codes…

African banks heavily targeted in RemcosRAT malware campaigns

African banks are increasingly targeted by malware distribution campaigns that employ HTML smuggling tricks and typo-squatted domains to drop remote access trojans (RATs). Cybercriminals interested in quick financial gains are a constant source of trouble for banks…

New Fodcha DDoS botnet targets over 100 victims every day

A rapidly growing botnet is ensnaring routers, DVRs, and servers across the Internet to target more than 100 victims every day in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This newly discovered malware, named Fodcha by researchers at Qihoo 360's Network Security Research…

Clueless hackers spent months inside a network and nobody noticed. But then a ransomware gang turned up

Novice hackers who didn't know what they were doing spent months inside a government agency network without being detected – before higher-skilled attackers came in after them and launched a ransomware attack. Analysis of the incident at an unspecified US regional…

Enemybot: a new Mirai, Gafgyt hybrid botnet joins the scene

A new botnet is targeting routers, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and an array of server architectures. On April 12, cybersecurity researchers from FortiGuard Labs said the new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet, dubbed Enemybot, borrows modules from…

Wind Turbine Giant Nordex Hit By Cyber-Attack

German wind turbine manufacturer, Nordex Group, was hit by a cyber-attack on 31 March 2022, with an update issued by the firm this week. The cyber-attack was detected by IT security team at an early stage, according to Nordex, and response measures were taken…

Daily Cyber Brief

4/14/22

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