Coverage of named threat actors and intrusion sets examines reported incidents, infrastructure, disruption, and defensive guidance.
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Coverage under this tag concerns a named threat actor or intrusion set: an individual, group, or organized operation assessed to be responsible for malicious cyber activity. Reports may describe incidents, malware, attack infrastructure, disruption efforts, or analyst assessments. Attribution is often provisional, so actor names and reported links should be treated as intelligence judgments rather than established identity, nationality, sponsorship, or motive.
For defenders, such reporting can help connect incidents and prioritize monitoring, but indicators and techniques may be reused or become obsolete. Validate reported infrastructure, hashes, and behaviors against local telemetry; use confirmed weaknesses to guide vulnerability remediation and access controls. If activity is suspected, preserve relevant logs and evidence, contain affected accounts or systems, and coordinate investigation without relying on an actor label alone.
IT asset tracker and auditor software has a critical issue with insecure object deserialization that could allow threat actors to execute code, researchers say.
A threat actor is infecting industrial control systems (ICS) to create a botnet through password "cracking" software for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). [...]
The group, going by the name H0lyGh0st, has been developing and conducting cross-national malware attacks for over a year
Falling cryptocurrency prices are making it harder for threat actors to monetize their attacks
The operators behind the Qakbot malware are transforming their delivery vectors in an attempt to sidestep detection
Two ransomware gangs and a data extortion group have adopted a new strategy to force victim companies to pay threat actors to not leak stolen data. [...]