Attacks with an updated TheMoon botnet variant have impacted more than 40,000 end-of-life small office and home office routers and internet of things devices across 88 countries during the first two months of 2024, while the botnet's latest campaign earlier this month facilitated the compromise of over 6,000 Asus routers in less than three days, Security Affairs reports.
Stealthier attacks have been facilitated by threat actors through the utilization of several strategically positioned internet-connected GEOBOX devices.
BleepingComputer reports that threat actors could leverage the novel GoFetch side-channel attack to facilitate the exfiltration of secret cryptographic keys from devices running on Apple M1, M2, and M3 processors.
Organizations across Europe have been subjected to a deluge of attacks involving AceCryptor malware as part of campaigns that sought to exfiltrate email and browser credentials during the second half of 2023.
Ireland has been a notable addition to the alliance being the headquarters of U.S.-sanctioned spyware firms Intellexa Limited and Thalestris Limited, while the inclusion of Japan and South Korea would help expand the partnership in Asia.
Android banking trojan PixPirate has been updated to enable the concealment of the malicious app delivering the malware from targeted devices to facilitate stealthier intrusions across Brazil,.
Seven malicious Python Package Index packages, which amassed nearly 7,500 downloads prior to their removal, have been leveraged by threat actors to facilitate the exfiltration of cryptocurrency wallet recovery passwords.
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