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Issue #94 - April 22, 2024

Cisco Fixes Firewall 0-Days After Likely Nation-State Hack

Source: Data Breach Today

Probable nation-state hackers targeted Cisco firewall appliances in a campaign dating to late 2023, the networking giant disclosed Wednesday. The company released three patches - two of them rated critical - for devices running Adaptive Security Appliance and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense software. 




State Hackers' New Frontier: Network Edge Devices

Source: Info Risk Today

Russian intelligence hackers as well as Russian-speaking cybercriminals have targeted devices including firewalls, virtual private networks and email filters. Chinese hackers with Beijing's backing have particularly demonstrated in-depth knowledge of edge device.




Godfather Banking Trojan Spawns 1.2K Samples Across 57 Countries

Source: Dark Reading

North of 1,000 samples of the Godfather mobile banking Trojan are circulating in dozens of countries worldwide, targeting hundreds of banking apps. First discovered in 2022, Godfather — which can record screens and keystrokes, intercepts two-factor authentication (2FA) calls and texts, initiates bank transfers, and more — has quickly become one of the most widespread malware-as-a-service offerings in cybercrime, especially mobile cybercrime.




LA County Health Services: Patients' data exposed in phishing attack

Source: Bleeping Computer

"Between February 19, 2024, and February 20, 2024, DHS experienced a phishing attack. Specifically, a hacker was able to gain log-in credentials of 23 DHS employees through a phishing e-mail," the notifications revealed. "In this case, the DHS employees clicked on the link located in the body of the e-mail, thinking that they were accessing a legitimate message from a trustworthy sender."




North Korea's Lazarus Group Deploys New Kaolin RAT via Fake Job Lures

Source: The Hacker News

These initial access vectors trick targets into launching a malicious optical disc image (ISO) file bearing three files, one of which masquerades as an Amazon VNC client ("AmazonVNC.exe") that, in reality, is a renamed version of a legitimate Windows application called "choice.exe."



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