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.
Following the LNK metadata trail
While tracking some prevalent commodity malware threat actors, Talos observed the popularization of malicious LNK files as their initial access method to download and execute payloads. A closer look at the LNK files illustrates how their metadata could be used to identify and track new campaigns.
Threat Spotlight: XLLing in Excel - threat actors using malicious add-ins
As more and more users adopt new versions of Microsoft Office, it is likely that threat actors will turn away from VBA-based malicious documents to other formats such as XLLs or rely on exploiting newly discovered vulnerabilities to launch malicious code.
Threat Spotlight: Cyber Criminal Adoption of IPFS for Phishing, Malware Campaigns
* The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is an emerging Web3 technology that is currently seeing widespread abuse by threat actors. * Cisco Talos has observed multiple ongoing campaigns that leverage the IPFS network to host their malware payloads and phishing kit infrastructure
Emotet coming in hot
Emotet is a ubiquitous and well-known banking trojan that has evolved over the years to become a very successful modular botnet capable of dropping a variety of other threats. Even after a global takedown campaign in early 2021 disrupted the botnet, it reemerged later that year,