Cyber Security News Weekly Round-Up (Vulnerabilities, Threats & New Stories)
The weekly cybersecurity news wrap-up provides readers with the latest information on emerging risks, vulnerabilities, ways to reduce them, and harmful schemes to help make defensive measures proactive.
A well-developed knowledge base is necessary for securing networks from the newest targets and vulnerabilities in the face of the changing risk landscape.
Staying updated with the latest trends, reports, and news is completely necessary nowadays.
Cyber Attacks
CoralRaider Hackers Steal Data
XClient stealer and RotBot are two attack tools that Vietnamese threat actor CoralRaider uses to steal financial data, login credentials, and social media information from victims in Asian and Southeast Asian countries.
Since 2023, the group has been operational with complex approaches where they would integrate Vietnamese vocabularies into their payloads as a sort of hard coding.
The most recent campaign by this threat group involves using Windows shortcut files to distribute malware targeting South Korean, Bangladeshi, and Chinese nationals. This is a significant threat to individuals and businesses in the region.
Chinese Hackers Using AI Tools To Influence Upcoming Elections
The report concerns how Chinese hackers could use AI to influence the elections. While no instances are specifically mentioned in the report, it cautions against this cyber risk.
Not only that even AI can be used to generate deepfake videos, control social media sites and undertake highly developed cyber offences which makes it a very powerful tool to influence the elections.
Moreover, the report stresses on increasing cybersecurity defenses against such threats including improvements in detection and response capabilities.
While it highlights the need of remaining alert and proactive towards changing cyber risks especially in line with elections and politics at large.
Threat Actors Deliver Malware Via YouTube Video
The report highlights a recent malware campaign in which Vidar, StealC, and Lumma Stealer information-stealing malware are disseminated via YouTube videos by hackers.
These videos that pretend to be guides for getting free software or game upgrades have links to cracked video games and pirated…
