Teenage Mutant Ninja Hackers, Mark Twain, TP-Link, Intel, Papercut, Rustbucket, Solarwinds, Blue Check Marks, Jason Wood, and more on this edition of the Security Weekly News.
BleepingComputer reports that the U.S. and Europe have been facing more attacks distributing the EvilExtractor data theft tool, with intrusions peaking last month, most of which involved a phishing campaign.
The Hacker News reports that China-linked threat operation Daggerfly, also known as Bronze Highland and Evasive Panda, has been targeting African telecommunications providers in cyberattacks since November.
Cyberespionage operation Blind Eagle, also known as APT-C-36, has been using a new multi-stage attack chain to facilitate njRAT remote access trojan deployment, The Hacker News reports.
While the Linux malware is unrelated to the 3CX software supply chain hack disclosed in March, ESET researchers said that the discovery of the malware chain helped them confirm with a “high level of confidence” that the incident was carried out by hackers associated with Lazarus Group.
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