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When abused by threat actors with sophisticated social-engineering chops, remote-access tools demand that enterprises remain sharp in both defense strategy and employee-awareness training.

ESET researchers have discovered Lazarus attacks against targets in the Netherlands and Belgium that use spearphishing emails connected to fake job offers.

Researchers from Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) released a report detailing a malware they have been tracking since January 2021.

The Brute Ratel C4 (BRc4) pentesting tool has been abused for evasion in recent attacks attributed to Russian state-sponsored hacking group Cozy Bear.

By SecurityWeek News on January 08, 2021 A global cyber espionage campaign has resulted in the networks of many organizations around the world becoming compromised after the attackers managed to breach the systems of Texas-based IT management and monitoring solutions provider SolarWinds. Specifically, the attackers compromised the build system for the company’s Orion monitoring product, which enabled them to deliver trojanized updates to the company’s customers for at least three months. T...

One internet blog says "the interview" has been shared illegally about 750,000 times. the fbi is not commenting on report that is north korea probably was not behind the hack on sony pictures. here is cnns brian todd with that part of the story. >> reporter: the forensic trail of the sony hack is mysterious, difficult to follow and now is sparking increasing doubt over the fbis belief that hackers working for north korea is responsible. >> its clear to us based on forensic and other evidence w...