Europol Shuts Down Manson Market Fraud Marketplace, Seizes 50 Servers Europol on Thursday announced the shutdown of a clearnet marketplace called Manson Market that facilitated online fraud on a large scale. The operation, led by German authorities, has resulted in the seizure of more than 50 servers associated with the Read more…
Russia-Linked Turla Exploits Pakistani Hackers' Servers to Target Afghan and Indian Entities The Russia-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Turla has been linked to a previously undocumented campaign that involved infiltrating the command-and-control (C2) servers of a Pakistan-based hacking group named Storm-0156 to conduct its own operations since Read more…
Critical Flaw in ProjectSend Under Active Exploitation Against Public-Facing Servers A critical security flaw impacting the ProjectSend open-source file-sharing application has likely come under active exploitation in the wild, according to findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability, originally patched over a year-and-a-half ago as part of a commit pushed in May Read more…
INTERPOL Disrupts Over 22,000 Malicious Servers in Global Crackdown on Cybercrime Nov 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Cybercrime INTERPOL on Tuesday said it took down more than 22,000 malicious servers linked to various cyber threats as part of a global operation. Dubbed Operation Synergia II, the coordinated effort ran from Read more…
Cybercriminals Exploiting Docker API Servers for SRBMiner Crypto Mining Attacks Oct 22, 2024Ravie LakshmananDocker Security / Cloud Security Bad actors have been observed targeting Docker remote API servers to deploy the SRBMiner crypto miner on compromised instances, according to new findings from Trend Micro. “In this attack, the threat actor Read more…
New Perfctl Malware Targets Linux Servers for Cryptocurrency Mining and Proxyjacking Oct 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananLinux / Malware Linux servers are the target of an ongoing campaign that delivers a stealthy malware dubbed perfctl with the primary aim of running a cryptocurrency miner and proxyjacking software. “Perfctl is particularly elusive and Read more…
New PHP Vulnerability Exposes Windows Servers to Remote Code Execution Details have emerged about a new critical security flaw impacting PHP that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution under certain circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4577, has been described as a CGI argument injection vulnerability affecting all versions Read more…
Europol Shuts Down 100+ Servers Linked to IcedID, TrickBot, and Other Malware Europol on Thursday said it shut down the infrastructure associated with several malware loader operations such as IcedID, SystemBC, PikaBot, SmokeLoader, Bumblebee, and TrickBot as part of a coordinated law enforcement effort codenamed Operation Endgame. “The actions focused Read more…
Ebury Botnet Malware Compromises 400,000 Linux Servers Over Past 14 Years A malware botnet called Ebury is estimated to have compromised 400,000 Linux servers since 2009, out of which more than 100,000 were still compromised as of late 2023. The findings come from Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which characterized it as one Read more…
Android Malware Wpeeper Uses Compromised WordPress Sites to Hide C2 Servers Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented malware targeting Android devices that uses compromised WordPress sites as relays for its actual command-and-control (C2) servers for detection evasion. The malware, codenamed Wpeeper, is an ELF binary that leverages the HTTPS protocol Read more…