Google is tracking three distinct suspected Russian cyber-spy groups that are targeting individuals in academia, aerospace, defense, government agencies, and think tanks across Europe and the US. The UNC (unclassified) groups, as Google calls them, have been orchestrating these highly targeted campaigns since at least last year, and they remain ongoing. Some of the phishing and OAuth-abuse operations used in the attack took place this month. READ MORE...
Threat actors are abusing FTP banners to hide commands that deliver two previously undocumented remote access trojans named E4del and PINHOLE. MalwareHunterTeam observed this unusual technique in July in an attack that used shortcut files (.LNK) and FTP server banners as dead-drop resolvers (DDR) to retrieve commands. FTP banners are text strings the server uses as a greeting message for connecting hosts before they log in. READ MORE...
Unwise design choices from a specialty password manager allowed any malicious website to obtain complete, persistent access to customers' vaults. "Passportal" is a credential management product from N-able, formerly SolarWinds MSP, a now-independent and nearly billion-dollar public company. N-able markets its products primarily to managed service providers (MSPs) and IT services providers. READ MORE...