The attack begins with phishing emails impersonating voicemail notifications that direct victims through a multi-stage redirect chain abusing legitimate services, including Google Meet, Google Ads infrastructure, and Amazon S3, before ultimately reaching an attacker-controlled...
Missing authentication for critical function in Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Improper restriction of communication channel to intended endpoints in Azure SQL Managed Instance allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Written by: Tyler McLellan, Austin Larsen Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) continues to track UNC6671 actively conducting compromises leading to data theft extortion, despite the alleged announced retirement of the BlackFile extortion brand in May 2026. Telemetry and infrastructure analysis reveal that rather than disbanding, UNC6671 has diversified its operations across multiple extortion fronts including Redact, Pink, Helix, and Falcon. UNC6671 continues to rely on voice…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 27th July, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Minnesota IT Services has confirmed coordinated cyberattacks affecting more than 30 community water utilities across the state. The incidents briefly disrupted a treatment plant in Braham and affected industrial control systems. Officials reported that drinking water safety was not affected. While the attack was not officially attributed, federal…
Canada’s new Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act (Bill C-8) introduces a strict 72-hour cyber incident reporting mandate. Find out how Tenable is helping critical national infrastructure operators bridge the IT/OT divide to ensure full compliance.Key takeaways:Bill C-8 introduces stringent new cyber incident reporting requirements and heavy financial penalties for critical infrastructure operators. Eliminating network blind spots with a hybrid IT/OT discovery approach, including Safe Active…
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, formerly SD-WAN vSmart, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Validator, formerly SD-WAN vBond, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root by supplying a crafted file to the affected system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a crafted file to the…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 20th July, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Ernst & Young, a global accounting and professional services company, has disclosed a data breach involving a compromised third-party IT support platform. The exposed support tickets may have contained client documents, tax information, employee details, and other sensitive information submitted while requesting technical assistance. Jscrambler, a…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 13th July, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES U.S. auto insurer AssuranceAmerica has disclosed a data breach affecting approximately 7 million people. Attackers targeted an employee and used compromised credentials to access company systems, stealing names, contact information, driver’s license numbers, insurance policy and account data, vehicle information, and claims details. Latvia’s state…
Discover how Distributed Tokenization identifies compromised cards at pre-authorization without exposing raw card data — a technical deep-dive for fraud operations and risk teams.
A malicious version of the @injectivelabs/sdk-ts npm package (version 1.20.21) was briefly published to the official Injective Labs npm namespace after a contributor account was compromised. The package contained credential-stealing functionality that silently exfiltrated cryp...
A Mexican banking fraud operation we're tracking as REF6045 doesn't run on autopilot. A human operator is behind the wheel, monitoring infected machines and deciding what happens next. Victims are infected through fake CAPTCHA pages that trick them into running a single command, which installs SCMBANKER, a PowerShell toolkit with components dating back to at least October 2025. Once installed, the operator can see when a victim opens a banking session, lock the screen behind a fake bank warning…
A Mexican banking fraud operation we're tracking as REF6045 doesn't run on autopilot. A human operator is behind the wheel, monitoring infected machines and deciding what happens next. Victims are infected through fake CAPTCHA pages that trick them into running a single command, which installs SCMBANKER, a PowerShell toolkit with components dating back to at least October 2025. Once installed, the operator can see when a victim opens a banking session, lock the screen behind a fake bank warning…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 22nd June, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has been affected by a third-party data breach involving its license system vendor. The incident exposed driver’s license information, passport numbers, emails, phone numbers, and residential addresses for 3,087,721 hunting and fishing license customers. Social Security numbers and payment data were not affected.…
Se ha descubierto una infraestructura de phishing modular dirigida a múltiples bancos mexicanos, que abusa de GitHub Pages, emplea scripts ofuscados y centraliza la exfiltración de credenciales mediante la API de SheetBest, lo que indica una operación de phishing escalable y persistente de múltiples marcas.
According to investigations, the compromise began when attackers gained access to Klue backend systems and deployed code capable of harvesting OAuth tokens used by customers to integrate Klue with third-party platforms such as Salesforce, Gong, SharePoint, HubSpot, Slack, and ...
A modular phishing infrastructure targeting multiple Mexican banks has been uncovered, abusing GitHub-hosted Pages, employing obfuscated scripts, and featuring a centralized credential exfiltration via SheetBest API, indicating a scalable and persistent multi-brand phishing operation.
SilabRAT (aka SnappyClient) is an advanced Remote Access Trojan (RAT) sold as a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) on Darkweb forums. Developed by the threat actor "o1oo1," SilabRAT is heavily focused on financial gain through credential theft. It offers stability and is capable of bypassing existing security measures.
Improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory ('path traversal') in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an authorized attacker to execute code over a network.
Written by: Chad Reams, Tufail Ahmed, Keith Knapp, Ashley Frazer, Tyler McLellan Introduction From January through May 2026, Mandiant identified a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign executed by the threat cluster UNC3753 (also tracked as "Luna Moth," “Chatty Spider,” and "Silent Ransom Group") targeting dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the United States. UNC3753 leverages voice phishing (vishing) and social engineering deception…
Learn the most common crypto scam types and how they work in practice. Understand how financial institutions can detect fraud earlier and prevent losses at the fiat-to-crypto boundary.
Merchants face $53B in card fraud losses but lack access to compromised card data. Discover the three barriers keeping merchants in the dark — and the solution.
In this blog entry, researchers from the TrendAI™ MDR team discuss how they mapped the full end-to-end operation of SHADOW-WATER-063’s Banana RAT banking malware by analyzing server-side artifacts and victim-side data.
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TrendAI™ Research has identified two emerging threat campaigns—SHADOW-AETHER-040 and SHADOW-AETHER-064—that use agentic AI to drive intrusion operations against government and financial organizations in Latin America, marking these among the first cases we have observed of AI agents executing attacks from initial access to data exfiltration.
Elastic Security Labs identified a new Brazilian banking trojan that we are tracking as TCLBANKER, a malware family we assess is a major update of the MAVERICK/SORVEPOTEL family. The campaign, tracked as REF3076, features a loader with robust anti-analysis capabilities that deploys two embedded .NET Reactor-protected modules: a full-featured banking trojan and a worm module for self-propagation. The banking trojan monitors the victim's browser address bar via UI Automation, targeting 59…
A follow-up publication will provide a deeper technical analysis of PHANTOMPULSE itself, covering its injection engines, persistence internals, and C2 protocol in greater detail. Preamble Elastic Security Labs has identified a novel social engineering campaign that abuses the popular note-taking application, Obsidian, as an initial access vector. The campaign, which we track as REF6598, targets individuals in the financial and cryptocurrency sectors through elaborate social engineering on…
A phishing campaign has been reported leveraging the EvilTokens Phishing-as-a-Service platform to target O365 users. The attackers use device code phishing to bypass Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and they also utilize Railway to host their malicious infrastructure. The ca...
The attack originated reportedly from a security incident affecting Anodot, a SaaS analytics and anomaly detection platform that integrates with multiple cloud services (e.g., Snowflake, S3, and streaming pipelines). Threat actors reportedly obtained authentication tokens asso...
Group-IB researchers uncover an ongoing phishing campaign targeting major banks in the Philippines. This blog details how threat actors abuse trusted and legitimate platforms to deceive users and evade detection. It highlights a significant threat escalation with the successful hijacking of a legitimate domain to host malicious infrastructure, enabling threat actors to operate with even greater credibility and reduced detection.
Global regulators are mandating fraud intelligence sharing. Learn how financial institutions can collaborate in real-time while maintaining privacy compliance through Distributed Tokenization.
Національною командою реагування на кіберінциденти, кібератаки, кіберзагрози CERT-UA 26-27 березня 2026 року зафіксовано випадки розповсюдження електронних листів нібито від імені CERT-UA із закликом завантажити з сервісу Files.fm захищений паролем архів ("CERT_UA_protection_tool.zip", "protection_tool.zip") та встановити "спеціалізоване програмне забезпечення". Серед отримувачів листів: державні організації, медичні центри, охоронні фірми, навчальні заклади, фінансові установи, компанії…
Key takeaways A South Asian financial institution was targeted with two custom malware components: a modular backdoor (BRUSHWORM) and a keylogger (BRUSHLOGGER) BRUSHWORM features anti-analysis checks, AES-CBC encrypted configuration, scheduled task persistence, modular DLL payload downloading, USB worm propagation, and broad file theft targeting documents, spreadsheets, email archives, and source code The keylogger masquerades as libcurl via DLL side-loading, capturing system-wide keystrokes…
Tracing the evolution of cloud phone technology from harmless social media engagement automation to industrial-scale financial fraud that’s invisible to modern detection systems.
Railway PaaS is being weaponized as a clean token replay engine in an active AiTM and device code phishing campaign impacting 268+ M365 organizations and 100+ MSPs.
LexisNexis confirmed a cloud-based data breach after threat actor FulcrumSec leaked ~2GB of stolen data. The attacker exploited an unpatched React2Shell vulnerability in a frontend application to gain access to the company’s AWS environment, leading to large-scale data exfiltr...
Continuing from the previous report, this second installment introduces the presentations delivered during the Day 2 Main Track. Following the Trace: Reconstructing Attacks from Ext4 and XFS Journals Speaker: Minoru Kobayashi, Internet Initiative Japan Inc. Presentation Materials (English) Minoru Kobayashi presented an approach for inferring file operations and reconstructing them as a timeline based on the journal structures and analysis methods of the ext4 and XFS file systems. Through a…
26. Februar 2026 Beschreibung In Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN existieren mehrere kritische Sicherheitslücken. Die schwerwiegendste Schwachstelle (CVE-2026-20127) ermöglicht es einem nicht authentifizierten Angreifer aus der Ferne, die Authentifizierung zu umgehen und administrative Berechtigungen auf einem betroffenen System zu erlangen. Weitere Schwachstellen betreffen den Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager und ermöglichen unter anderem Authentication Bypass, Privilege Escalation, Information Disclosure…