Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs claimed that threat actors associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea were responsible for stealing over $600 million of cryptocurrency in 2023. The …
Syrian Hackers Distributing Stealthy C#-Based Silver RAT to Cybercriminals
Cybersecurity firm Cyfirma recently announced that the self-titled Anonymous Arabic threat actor released a new version of its remote access trojan called Silver RAT. The Syria-based group operates a …
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Turkish Cyberspies Targeting Netherlands
Duth incident response provider Hunt & Hackett accused the Turkey-linked cyberespionage group Sea Turtle of targeting public and private sector organizations in the Netherlands for the past year. …
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Major IT, Crypto Firms Exposed to Supply Chain Compromise via New Class of CI/CD Attack
Tens of thousands of public GitHub repositories are vulnerable to malicious code injection via self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, which could lead to high-impact supply chain attacks, security …
NIST: No Silver Bullet Against Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks
NIST has published a report on adversarial machine learning attacks and mitigations, and cautioned that there is no silver bullet for these types of threats. Adversarial machine learning, or AML, …
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Law Firm Orrick Reveals Extensive Data Breach, Over Half a Million Affected
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, a law firm that specializes in cyberattacks, disclosed that more than 600,000 individuals were impacted by a data breach that happened in early 2023. The company …
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Vigilant Ops Raises $2 Million for SBOM Management Platform
Vigilant Ops, a cybersecurity startup, secured a $2 million seed investment from DataTribe to enhance its software bills of materials (SBOMs) management platform. Founded in 2019, the Pittsburgh-based …
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Nigerian Arrested, Charged in $7.5 Million BEC Scheme Targeting US Charities
Olusegun Samson Adejorin, a Nigerian national, faces charges in the US for his role in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme involving two charitable organizations. Between June and August 2020, …
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US Says 19 People Charged Following 2019 Takedown of xDedic Cybercrime Marketplace
The US Justice Department recently unveiled charges against 19 individuals involved in operating and utilizing the xDedic cybercrime marketplace, dismantled in 2019. xDedic facilitated the sale of …
New ‘SpectralBlur’ macOS Backdoor Linked to North Korea
Security researchers recently delved into SpectralBlur, a new macOS backdoor sharing similarities with the North Korean malware, KandyKorn. Discovered in an August 2023 VirusTotal upload, SpectralBlur …
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