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A new phishing campaign has been observed employing tax-themed lures to deliver a stealthy backdoor payload as part of attacks targeting Pakistan. Cybersecurity company Securonix, which is tracking the activity under the name FLUX#CONSOLE , said it likely starts with a phishing email link or attachment, although it said it couldn't obtain the original email used to launch the attack. "One of the more notable aspects of the campaign is how the threat actors leverage MSC (Microsoft Common Console Document) files to deploy a dual-purpose loader and dropper to deliver further malicious payloads," security researchers Den Iuzvyk and Tim Peck said . It's worth noting that the abuse of specially crafted management saved console (MSC) files to execute malicious code has been codenamed GrimResource by Elastic Security Labs. The starting point is a file with double extensions (.pdf.msc) that masquerades as a PDF file (if the setting to display file extensions is disabled)...

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A suspected South Asian cyber espionage threat group known as Bitter targeted a Turkish defense sector organization in November 2024 to deliver two C++-malware families tracked as WmRAT and MiyaRAT. "The attack chain used alternate data streams in a RAR archive to deliver a shortcut (LNK) file that created a scheduled task on the target machine to pull down further payloads," Proofpoint researchers Nick Attfield, Konstantin Klinger, Pim Trouerbach, and David Galazin said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The enterprise security company is tracking the threat actor under the name TA397. Known to be active since at least 2013, the adversary is also referred to as APT-C-08, APT-Q-37, Hazy Tiger, and Orange Yali. Prior attacks conducted by the hacking group have targeted entities in China, Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh with malware such as BitterRAT , ArtraDownloader , and ZxxZ, indicating a heavy Asian focus. Bitter has also been linked to cyber...

Addressing cyber threats before they have a chance to strike or inflict serious damage is by far the best security approach any company can embrace. Achieving this takes a lot of research and proactive threat hunting. The problem here is that it is easy to get stuck in endless arrays of data and end up with no relevant intel.  To avoid this, use these five battle-tested techniques that are certain to improve your company’s threat awareness and overall security. Finding threats targeting orgs in your region The most basic, yet high-impact way to learn about the current threat landscape for your company is to go and see what type of attacks other organizations in your region are experiencing.  In most cases, threat actors attempt to target dozens of businesses at the same time as part of a single campaign. This makes it possible to catch the threat early and make correct adjustments in your organization. How it contributes to your security: More targeted and effective de...

Bogus software update lures are being used by threat actors to deliver a new stealer malware called CoinLurker . "Written in Go, CoinLurker employs cutting-edge obfuscation and anti-analysis techniques, making it a highly effective tool in modern cyber attacks," Morphisec researcher Nadav Lorber said in a technical report published Monday. The attacks make use of fake update alerts that employ various deceptive entry points such as software update notifications on compromised WordPress sites, malvertising redirects, phishing emails that link to spoofed update pages, fake CAPTCHA verification prompts , direct downloads from phoney or infected sites, and links shared via social media and messaging apps. Regardless of the method utilized to initiate the infection chain, the software update prompts make use of Microsoft Edge Webview2 to trigger the execution of the payload. "Webview2's dependency on pre-installed components and user interaction complicates dynami...