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A Russia-aligned threat actor has been observed targeting a European financial institution as part of a social engineering attack to likely facilitate intelligence gathering or financial theft, signaling a possible expansion of the threat actor's targeting beyond Ukraine and into entities supporting the war-torn nation . The activity, which targeted an unnamed entity involved in regional development and reconstruction initiatives, has been attributed to a cybercrime group tracked as UAC-0050 (aka DaVinci Group ). BlueVoyant has designated the name Mercenary Akula to the threat cluster. The attack was observed earlier this month. "The attack spoofed a Ukrainian judicial domain to deliver an email containing a link to a remote access payload," researchers Patrick McHale and Joshua Green said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "The target was a senior legal and policy advisor involved in procurement, a role with privileged insight into institutional operation...

A newly discovered malware campaign has been found to target private users, retailers, and service businesses mainly located in Russia to deliver NetSupport RAT and BurnsRAT. The campaign, dubbed Horns&Hooves by Kaspersky, has hit more than 1,000 victims since it began around March 2023. The end goal of these attacks is to leverage the access afforded by these trojans to install stealer malware such as Rhadamanthys and Meduza . "Recent months have seen a surge in mailings with lookalike email attachments in the form of a ZIP archive containing JScript scripts," security researcher Artem Ushkov said in a Monday analysis. "The script files [are] disguised as requests and bids from potential customers or partners." The threat actors behind the operations have demonstrated their active development of the JavaScript payload, making significant changes during the course of the campaign. In some instances, the ZIP archive has been found to contain other docum...

Several security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in cloud management platforms associated with three industrial cellular router vendors that could expose operational technology (OT) networks to external attacks. The findings were presented by Israeli industrial cybersecurity firm OTORIO at the Black Hat Asia 2023 conference last week. "Industrial cellular routers and gateways are essential IIoT devices that provide connectivity for industrial applications, facilitating remote monitoring, control, and data exchange across various industries," OTORIO said. With gateways widely deployed in critical infrastructure sectors such as substations, water utilities, oil fields, and pipelines, weaknesses in these devices could have severe consequences, impacting availability and process safety. The 11 vulnerabilities discovered by the company allow "remote code execution and full control over hundreds of thousands of devices and OT networks - in some cases, even those not...

Metasploit Framework 3.7.2 Released - Download  Metasploit Framework 3.7.2 includes 698 exploit modules, 358 auxiliary modules, and 54 post modules, 11 new exploits, 1 new auxiliary module, and 15 new post modules.This release addresses several issues with updating the framework, adds 11 exploit / auxiliary modules and brings a plethora of new features. Modules included are listed below. Notable modules include the Cisco Anyconnect ActiveX bug (which works against recent versions of the Cisco AnyConnect Windows Client), and the SCADA modules by sinn3r and MC. The multi-platform post-exploitation work continues with new modules for Linux and Solaris included in this release thanks to Carlos Perez. A number of password-stealing post modules are also included, courtesy of David Maloney. The updates to the signed_java_applet module are documented on the Metasploit Blog. Additionally, the cachedump module has been improved and merged thanks to great work by Mubix. New features ...