New Horabot campaign targets the Americas
Cisco Talos has observed a threat actor deploying a previously unidentified botnet program Talos is calling “Horabot,” which delivers a known banking trojan and spam tool onto victim machines in a campaign that has been ongoing since at least November 2020.
Mercenary mayhem: A technical analysis of Intellexa's PREDATOR spyware
Commercial spyware use is on the rise, with actors leveraging these sophisticated tools to conduct surveillance operations against a growing number of targets. Cisco Talos has new details of a commercial spyware product sold by the spyware firm Intellexa (formerly known as Cytrox).
Newly identified RA Group compromises companies in U.S. and South Korea with leaked Babuk source code
Cisco Talos recently discovered a new ransomware actor called RA Group that has been operating since at least April 22, 2023.
State-sponsored campaigns target global network infrastructure
This campaign, dubbed "Jaguar Tooth," is an example of a much broader trend of sophisticated adversaries targeting networking infrastructure to advance espionage objectives or pre-position for future destructive activity.
Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerabilities in popular Japanese word processing software could lead to arbitrary code execution, other issues
Ichitaro uses the ATOK input method (IME) and uses the proprietary .jtd file extension. It’s the second most-popular word processing system in Japan behind only Microsoft word.
Typhon Reborn V2: Updated stealer features enhanced anti-analysis and evasion capabilities
The stealer is for sale on dark web forums for $59 a month, or $540 for a lifetime subscription, which is relatively inexpensive compared to other infostealers.
Vulnerability Spotlight: Buffer overflow vulnerability in ADMesh library
A specially crafted STL file can lead to a heap buffer overflow.
Talos uncovers espionage campaigns targeting CIS countries, embassies and EU health care agency
Cisco Talos has identified a new espionage oriented threat actor, which we are naming “YoroTrooper,” targeting a multitude of entities in Europe and Turkey.
New MortalKombat ransomware and Laplas Clipper malware threats deployed in financially motivated campaign
Since December 2022, Cisco Talos has been observing an unidentified actor deploying two relatively new threats, the recently discovered MortalKombat ransomware and a GO variant of the Laplas Clipper malware, to steal cryptocurrency from victims.