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Category: Firewall Security

Qubitstrike Targets Jupyter Notebooks with Crypto Mining and Rootkit Campaign

Qubitstrike Targets Jupyter Notebooks with Crypto Mining and Rootkit Campaign

A threat actor, presumably from Tunisia, has been linked to a new campaign targeting exposed Jupyter Notebooks in a two-fold attempt to illicitly mine cryptocurrency and breach cloud environments. Dubbed Qubitstrike by Cado, the intrusion set utilizes Telegram API to exfiltrate cloud service provider credentials following a successful compromise. “The payloads for the Qubitstrike campaign are all

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Unraveling Real-Life Attack Paths – Key Lessons Learned

Unraveling Real-Life Attack Paths – Key Lessons Learned

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, attackers are always searching for vulnerabilities and exploits within organizational environments. They don’t just target single weaknesses; they’re on the hunt for combinations of exposures and attack methods that can lead them to their desired objective. Despite the presence of numerous security tools, organizations often have to deal with

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Google TAG Detects State-Backed Threat Actors Exploiting WinRAR Flaw

Google TAG Detects State-Backed Threat Actors Exploiting WinRAR Flaw

A number of state-back threat actors from Russia and China have been observed exploiting a recent security flaw in the WinRAR archiver tool for Windows as part of their operations. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2023-38831 (CVSS score: 7.8), which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code when a user attempts to view a benign file within a

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ExelaStealer: A New Low-Cost Cybercrime Weapon Emerges

ExelaStealer: A New Low-Cost Cybercrime Weapon Emerges

A new information stealer named ExelaStealer has become the latest entrant to an already crowded landscape filled with various off-the-shelf malware designed to capture sensitive data from compromised Windows systems. “ExelaStealer is a largely open-source infostealer with paid customizations available from the threat actor,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher James Slaughter said in a technical report. Written in Python and incorporating support

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