Malware

Malware-as-a-service threat group Eternity Project has included the new LilithBot malware in its arsenal, according to The Hacker News.

Colorado, Connecticut, Mississippi, and Kentucky had their state government websites impacted by outages on Wednesday following a distributed denial-of-service attack by Russian hacking group Killnet, reports StateScoop.

Iranian hacking group AppMilad has been distributing the Android spyware RatMilad in a new attack campaign targeted at enterprise users, according to SecurityWeek.

Hundreds of Microsoft SQL servers around the world have already been infected by the novel backdoor dubbed "Maggie," with the malware infections being most prevalent in South Korea, India, Vietnam, China, Russia, Germany, Thailand, and the U.S., reports BleepingComputer.

Numerous state-sponsored threat actors were able to compromise and exfiltrate data from a U.S.-based defense industrial base organization between January and November last year, BleepingComputer reports.