Malware

Italian luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari has dismissed being impacted by a ransomware attack after the RansomEXX ransomware operation claimed to have stolen 7GB of data from the car maker, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Chinese cyberespionage operation Emperor Dragonfly, also known as Bronze Starlight and DEV-0401, has been behind the new Linux-based ransomware strain Cheerscrypt, reports The Hacker News.

Numerous telecommunications, industrial, healthcare, technology, insurance, and manufacturing organizations in North America and Europe have been targeted in a new supply chain attack leveraging a trojanized version of the Comm100 Live Chat installer by Canadian customer engagement software firm Comm100, according to SecurityWeek.

Cobalt Strike beacons are being deployed in a new malware campaign involving fraudulent job-themed lures, which was initially identified in August, reports The Hacker News.

Threat actors behind the campaign, which has a robust command-and-control infrastructure and extensively obfuscated PowerShell stagers, commence the attack with phishing emails sent to their targets' employees, with the messages including a ZIP attachment with a shortcut file that facilitates PowerShell script execution for malware deployment, according to a report from Securonix.

Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers discovered that the Agent Tesla remote access trojan is being spread using Quantum Builder in a new malware campaign involving LNK files, The Hacker News reports.