Apple distributes update for scareware protection

Intrusions with spear-phishing emails and geofenced payloads have been deployed by suspected Indian state-sponsored advanced persistent threat operation Sidewinder to compromise various government entities in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka with the StealerBot malware, reports The Hacker News.

Chinese advanced persistent threat group UnsolicitedBooker which overlaps with the Space Pirates and the still-unnamed Zardoor backdoor-using hacking operation has launched an attack with the new MarsSnake backdoor against an international organization based in Saudi Arabia, according to Security Affairs.

Vulnerable Redis servers targeted for cryptojacking Internet-exposed Redis servers have been subjected to attacks deploying the XMRig cryptocurrency mining malware as part of the new RedisRaider Linux cryptojacking campaign, The Hacker News reports.