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Also, Eurail Breach, ChipSoft Hospital Disruptions, W3LL Phishing TakedownThis week, a "Raccoon"-linked actor hit help desks, Eurail exposed 308K users, Fortinet patched critical flaws, Pushpaganda scams, major data leaks hit healthcare and China, ransomware and phishing ops surged, and multiple breaches impacted firms and hospitals.
Chinese Attackers Among Those Tied to Attempted Exploits of FortiSIEM AppliancesCritical vulnerabilities in edge devices are continuing to be discovered by security researchers and rapidly targeted by attackers. Lately, this includes a critical vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiSIEM appliances, which Chinese and other hackers began targeting just two days post-patch.
This week showed just how fast things can go wrong when no one’s watching. Some attacks were silent and sneaky. Others used tools we trust every day — like AI, VPNs, or app stores — to cause damage without setting off alarms
The threat actors behind a malware family known as Winos 4.0 (aka ValleyRAT) have expanded their targeting footprint from China and Taiwan to target Japan and Malaysia with another remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as HoldingHands RAT (aka Gh0stBins)
Chinese-speaking users are the target of a search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that uses fake software sites to distribute malware
PLUS: Chinese robodogs include backdoor; OpenAI helps spammer; A Dutch data disaster; And more! Infosec In Brief Fortinet last week admitted that attackers have found new ways to exploit three flaws it thought it had fixed last year.…
A new variant of the Snake Keylogger malware is being used to actively target Windows users located in China, Turkey, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Spain
Chinese Hackers Hitting Unpatched Products From Microsoft, Sophos, Fortinet, IvantiChinese nation-state hackers who surreptitiously gained "broad and full" access to telecommunications networks in the U.S. and dozens of other countries have regularly exploited known flaws in their networking gear that the victims failed to patch, security experts have warned.
No word on when or if the issue will be fixed Chinese government-linked snoops are exploiting a zero-day bug in Fortinet's Windows VPN client to steal credentials and other information, according to memory forensics outfit Volexity.…
Chinese threat actors use a custom post-exploitation toolkit named 'DeepData' to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiClient Windows VPN client that steal credentials. [...]
Chinese-speaking users are the target of an ongoing campaign that distributes malware known as ValleyRAT
Discovered by FortiGuard Labs, the ValleyRAT campaign targets Chinese Windows systems
The China-nexus cyber espionage actor linked to the zero-day exploitation of security flaws in Fortinet, Ivanti, and VMware devices has been observed utilizing multiple persistence mechanisms in order to maintain unfettered access to compromised environments
State-sponsored threat actors backed by China gained access to 20,000 Fortinet FortiGate systems worldwide by exploiting a known critical security flaw between 2022 and 2023, indicating that the operation had a broader impact than previously known
Dutch intelligence services have blamed China for an attack last year targeting FortiGuard devices
Chinese state-backed hackers broke into a computer network that's used by the Dutch armed forces by targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices
Beijing Used FortiGate Vulnerability to Install TrojanChinese espionage hackers penetrated Dutch military systems in early 2023, using a zero-day exploit in a Fortinet virtual private network to obtain access, Netherlands intelligence agencies disclosed Tuesday. They attributed the hacking to Chinese state actors with high confidence.
An advanced China-nexus cyber espionage group previously linked to the exploitation of security flaws in VMware and Fortinet appliances has been linked to the abuse of a critical vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server as a zero-day since late 2021
A new botnet consisting of firewalls and routers from Cisco, DrayTek, Fortinet, and NETGEAR is being used as a covert data transfer network for advanced persistent threat actors, including the China-linked threat actor called Volt Typhoon
The zero-day exploitation of a now-patched medium-security flaw in the Fortinet FortiOS operating system has been linked to a suspected Chinese hacking group