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Attacks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities

Suspected Pakistani actor modifies its custom remote access trojan with nefarious new capabilities (PR Newswire) Black Lotus Labs, the threat intelligence arm of Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN), today announced that ReverseRat – the remote access trojan it…

ReverseRat Reemerges with a (Night)Fury New Campaign and New Developments, Same Familiar Side-Actor – Lumen (Lumen) We have continued to track this actor and recently uncovered an updated version of the ReverseRat agent, which we are calling ReverseRat 2.0.

Pakistan’s cyber-attack malware mutates, adopts nefarious new capabilities  (India Today) A Pakistan-originated malware that previously targeted the power sector and government organisations in India and Afghanistan, has developed the ability to adopt new cyber-attack capabilities. 

Threat Thursday: Ficker Infostealer Malware (BlackBerry) Ficker is a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) information stealer that targets victims’ web browsers, credit card information, crypto-wallets and FTP clients. The malware can also download additional malware once a system is successfully compromised.

Crypto-mining botnet modifies CPU configurations to increase its mining power (The Record by Recorded Future) A crypto-mining botnet is modifying CPU configurations on hacked Linux servers in order to increase the performance and output of its cryptocurrency mining code.

Trend Micro Confirms In-the-Wild Zero-Day Attacks (SecurityWeek) Security vendor Trend Micro has issued a warning for in-the-wild zero-day attacks hitting customers using its Apex One and Apex One as a Service products.

Hackers tried to exploit two zero-days in Trend Micro’s Apex One EDR platform (The Record by Recorded Future) Cyber-security firm Trend Micro said hackers tried to exploit two zero-day vulnerabilities in its Apex One EDR platform in an attempt to go after its customers in attacks that took place earlier this year.

Ransomware group demanding US$50M in Accenture security breach: cyber firm (CRN Australia) According to dark web and cybercrime monitoring firm.

Ransomware Gang Leaks Files Allegedly Stolen From Accenture (SecurityWeek) Accenture has confirmed being targeted by…