From The Hacker News – GitHub, Telegram Bots, and QR Codes Abused in New Wave of Phishing Attacks
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From The Hacker News – GitHub, Telegram Bots, and QR Codes Abused in New Wave of Phishing Attacks

A new tax-themed malware campaign targeting insurance and finance sectors has been observed leveraging GitHub links in phishing email messages as a way to bypass security measures and deliver Remcos RAT, indicating that the method is gaining traction among threat actors. "In this campaign, legitimate repositories such as the open-source tax filing software, UsTaxes, HMRC, and InlandRevenue were
From Schneier on Security – IronNet Has Shut Down
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From Schneier on Security – IronNet Has Shut Down

 After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA (and US CyberCommand), Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet. At the time, he claimed that it…
From The Hacker News – How Hybrid Password Attacks Work and How to Defend Against Them
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From The Hacker News – How Hybrid Password Attacks Work and How to Defend Against Them

Threat actors constantly change tactics to bypass cybersecurity measures, developing innovative methods to steal user credentials. Hybrid password attacks merge multiple cracking techniques to amplify their effectiveness. These combined approaches exploit the strengths of various methods, accelerating the password-cracking process.  In this post, we’ll explore hybrid attacks — what they are
From The Hacker News – CISA Warns of Threat Actors Exploiting F5 BIG-IP Cookies for Network Reconnaissance
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From The Hacker News – CISA Warns of Threat Actors Exploiting F5 BIG-IP Cookies for Network Reconnaissance

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that it has observed threat actors leveraging unencrypted persistent cookies managed by the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) module to conduct reconnaissance of target networks. It said the module is being used to enumerate other non-internet-facing devices on the network. The agency, however, did not disclose who