Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Backdoor

Lazarus Hackers Tamper with Software Packages to Gain Backdoor Access to the Victims Device

A recent investigation conducted by STRIKE, a division of SecurityScorecard, has unveiled the intricate and far-reaching operation of the Lazarus Group, a North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group....

Juniper Routers Exploited via Magic Packet Vulnerability to Deploy Custom Backdoor

A sophisticated cyber campaign dubbed "J-magic" has been discovered targeting enterprise-grade Juniper routers with a backdoor attack that leverages a passive monitoring agent.The...

QSC: Multi-Plugin Malware Framework Installs Backdoor on Windows

The QSC Loader service DLL named "loader.dll" leverages two distinct methods to obtain the path to the Core module code.It either extracts the...

Stealthy Steganography Backdoor Attacks Target Android Apps

BARWM, a novel backdoor attack approach for real-world deep learning (DL) models deployed on mobile devices. Existing backdoor attacks often suffer from limitations such...

SMOKEDHAM Backdoor Mimic As Legitimate Tools Leveraging Google Drive & Dropbox

UNC2465, a financially motivated threat actor, leverages the SMOKEDHAM backdoor to gain initial access to target networks, which are often delivered via phishing emails,...

Rekoobe Backdoor In Open Directories Possibly Attacking TradingView Users

APT31, using the Rekoobe backdoor, has been observed targeting TradingView, a popular financial platform, as researchers discovered malicious domains mimicking TradingView, suggesting a potential...

Researchers Backdoored Azure Automation Account Packages And Runtime Environments

Runtime environments offer a flexible way to customize Automation Account Runbooks with specific packages.While base system-generated environments can't be directly modified, they can...

Hackers Using Supershell Malware To Attack Linux SSH Servers

Researchers identified an attack campaign targeting poorly secured Linux SSH servers, where the attack leverages Supershell, a cross-platform reverse shell backdoor written in Go,...

UNC2970 Hackers Attacking Job Seekers Using Weaponized PDF Reader

UNC2970, a North Korean cyber espionage group, used customized SumatraPDF trojans to deliver MISTPEN backdoors to victims through phishing emails pretending to be job...

New Loki Backdoor Attacking macOS Systems

Cody Thomas developed Apfell, an open-source macOS post-exploitation framework, in 2018 and evolved into Mythic, a cross-platform framework that addresses the limitations of existing...

Backdoor MIFARE Smart Cards Exposes User-Defined Keys On Cards

Researchers analyze the security of MIFARE Classic cards, focusing exclusively on card-only attacks. They uncover multiple new attack vectors by examining the CRYPTO-1 algorithm,...