Author Archives: Onsite Computing, Inc.

North Korean Hackers Using New VeilShell Backdoor in Stealthy Cyber Attacks

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed delivering a previously undocumented backdoor and remote access trojan (RAT) called VeilShell as part of a campaign targeting Cambodia and likely other Southeast Asian countries. The activity, dubbed SHROUDED#SLEEP by Securonix, is believed to be the handiwork of APT37, which is also known as InkySquid, […]

Critical Ivanti flaw finds in-the-wild RCE despite available patches

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned Ivanti customers of active exploitation of a critical Endpoint Manager (EPM) vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) that the company fixed in May 2024. Tracked as CVE-2024-29824, the flaw is an SQL injection vulnerability in the Ivanti EPM core server that allows an unauthenticated attacker […]

Meta partners with banks in the UK to combat online scams

Meta is working with banks in the UK to curb the menace of online frauds that originate or are executed on social media platforms such as Facebook or Instagram. The Facebook parent company has announced the expansion of its Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange (FIRE) program, a threat intelligence sharing initiative designed to protect people against […]

INTERPOL Arrests 8 in Major Phishing and Romance Fraud Crackdown in West Africa

INTERPOL has announced the arrest of eight individuals in Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria as part of a crackdown on phishing scams and romance cyber fraud. Dubbed Operation Contender 2.0, the initiative is designed to tackle cyber-enabled crimes in West Africa, the agency said. One such threat involved a large-scale phishing scam targeting Swiss citizens that […]

LockBit Ransomware and Evil Corp Leaders Arrested and Sanctioned in Joint Global Effort

A new wave of international law enforcement actions has led to four arrests and the takedown of nine servers linked to the LockBit (aka Bitwise Spider) ransomware operation, marking the latest salvo against what was once a prolific financially motivated group. This includes the arrest of a suspected LockBit developer in France while on holiday […]

Ivanti Endpoint Manager Flaw Actively Targeted, CISA Warns Agencies to Patch

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a security flaw impacting Endpoint Manager (EPM) that the company patched in May to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-29824, carries a CVSS score of 9.6 out of a maximum of 10.0, indicating […]

AI could provide the cyber-risk crystal ball every CISO needs

As much as cybersecurity professionals might prefer otherwise, ours is a field defined by reaction — just ask the average cyber analyst or threat hunter about their day to get a sense of how true this is. We are a technology-centric field in a functional sense, but technology evolves interactively alongside trends in economics, sociopolitical […]

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