Malware, Patch/Configuration Management, Vulnerability Management

Microsoft releases urgent browser patch to curb online attacks

September 24, 2012

Microsoft on Friday released an emergency patch to address a recently discovered zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE). Details of in-the-wild exploits taking advantage of the bug were made public on Sept. 16 by Eric Romang, a researcher and contributor to the Metasploit Project. The flaw could allow attackers to spread the remote access trojan (RAT) Poison Ivy. Researchers linked the exploits to the Nitro crime gang, a group also believed responsible for serving recent Java 7 attacks. The out-of-cycle fix from Microsoft also includes updates for four other bugs affecting IE 9 and earlier versions.

Danielle Walker

Data Security

Crypto stealing malware spread via bogus recruitment messages

SC StaffDecember 31, 2024

Malicious job offers purporting to be from widely known companies have been leveraged by threat actors to facilitate the distribution of cryptocurrency-stealing malware, reports Cybernews.

Ransomware

Novel malware leveraged in Cloud Atlas attacks

SC StaffDecember 30, 2024

Attacks with the new VBCloud malware have been deployed by Russian state-backed threat operation Cloud Atlas, also known as Clean Ursa, Oxygen, Inception, and Red October, to facilitate data theft against dozens of users, most of whom are in Russia, reports The Hacker News.

North Korea hacking concept of a computer keyboard and a key painted with the North Korean flag

Threat Intelligence

Novel OtterCookie malware added to Contagious Interview attack arsenal

SC StaffDecember 27, 2024

BleepingComputer reports that intrusions with the new OtterCookie malware and its updated iteration have been launched by North Korean threat actors against software developers as part of the Contagious Interview campaign, which initially involved the deployment of the BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret payloads.

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