From The Hacker News – Russian Hackers Target Europe with HeadLace Malware and Credential Harvesting
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From The Hacker News – Russian Hackers Target Europe with HeadLace Malware and Credential Harvesting

The Russian GRU-backed threat actor APT28 has been attributed as behind a series of campaigns targeting networks across Europe with the HeadLace malware and credential-harvesting web pages. APT28, also known by the names BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, Forest Blizzard, FROZENLAKE, Iron Twilight, ITG05, Pawn Storm, Sednit, Sofacy, and TA422, is an advanced persistent threat (APT) group affiliated with
From The Hacker News – OpenAI, Meta, TikTok Disrupt Multiple AI-Powered Disinformation Campaigns
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From The Hacker News – OpenAI, Meta, TikTok Disrupt Multiple AI-Powered Disinformation Campaigns

OpenAI on Thursday disclosed that it took steps to cut off five covert influence operations (IO) originating from China, Iran, Israel, and Russia that sought to abuse its artificial intelligence (AI) tools to manipulate public discourse or political outcomes online while obscuring their true identity. These activities, which were detected over the past three months, used its AI models to
From The Hacker News – CISA Alerts Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw
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From The Hacker News – CISA Alerts Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting the Linux kernel to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2024-1086 (CVSS score: 7.8), the high-severity issue relates to a use-after-free bug in the netfilter component that permits a local attacker to elevate privileges
From The Hacker News – FlyingYeti Exploits WinRAR Vulnerability to Deliver COOKBOX Malware in Ukraine
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From The Hacker News – FlyingYeti Exploits WinRAR Vulnerability to Deliver COOKBOX Malware in Ukraine

Cloudflare on Thursday said it took steps to disrupt a month-long phishing campaign orchestrated by a Russia-aligned threat actor called FlyingYeti targeting Ukraine. "The FlyingYeti campaign capitalized on anxiety over the potential loss of access to housing and utilities by enticing targets to open malicious files via debt-themed lures," Cloudflare's threat intelligence team Cloudforce One
From The Hacker News – Cyber Espionage Alert: LilacSquid Targets IT, Energy, and Pharma Sectors
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From The Hacker News – Cyber Espionage Alert: LilacSquid Targets IT, Energy, and Pharma Sectors

A previously undocumented cyber espionage-focused threat actor named LilacSquid has been linked to targeted attacks spanning various sectors in the United States (U.S.), Europe, and Asia as part of a data theft campaign since at least 2021. "The campaign is geared toward establishing long-term access to compromised victim organizations to enable LilacSquid to siphon data of interest to