Malware

The alleged creator of the phishing-as-a-service malware was among those apprehended in the international operation.

Information-stealing trojan RedLine Stealer has gained a more advanced variant leveraging the Lua bytecode and spoofing game cheats to facilitate increased stealth, The Hacker News reports.

Intrusions with the Waterbear backdoor and its updated variant dubbed "Deuterbear" have been deployed by China-linked threat operation BlackTech — also known as Earth Hundun, Manga Taurus, Circuit Panda, Temp.Overboard, Palmerwom, Red Djinn, and HUAPI — against government, research, and technology organizations across the Asia-Pacific, reports The Hacker News.

More than 600 servers worldwide have been subjected to recent attacks with the Androxgh0st malware, reports Hackread.

Security pros say using Windows backdoor in a malvertising campaign could expose companies to other malware attacks.

Fifty percent more distributed denial-of-service attacks have been launched by threat actors during the first quarter of 2024 over the same period last year, with thwarted DDoS attacks increasing by 93% year-over-year, SiliconAngle reports.

Security Affairs reports that attacks with an updated iteration of the LightSpy iOS spyware using the "F_Warehouse" framework have been deployed against Southern Asian targets as part of a new cyberespionage campaign.

Operations of Russia's industrial sensor and monitoring infrastructure were claimed to have been disrupted by Ukrainian hacking operation Blackjack following a Fuxnet malware attack against Moscow-based underground infrastructure firm Moscollector, reports SecurityWeek.