Kroll has analyzed incidents throughout Q1 2023 where drive-by compromise was the initial infection vector for GOOTLOADER malware. It is likely that the threat actors are utilizing SEO to drive individuals to either their own malicious website or to infected WordPress sites. These sites are then used to host documents that would be attractive to employees within the legal and professional services sectors.
Despite the security controls that OpenAI has imposed on ChatGPT to try to make it a secure space capable of assisting users in a variety of tasks, cybercriminals have managed to exploit this technology for malicious purposes. Recent research has shown that this generative artificial intelligence is capable of creating a new branch of polymorphic malware with relative ease. The main risk lies in ChatGPT's versatility, which allows it to create code that could easily be used for malware.
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Mac computers are becoming increasingly popular in business and enterprise applications. This growing adoption has had one negative side effect: Adversaries are increasingly targeting Macs, hoping that companies buy into the concept of macOS being immune to cyberattack. While macOS does provide advanced security features, these can be defeated by a determined attacker.
On May 24, 2023, industry and government sources detailed China-nexus activity in which the threat actor dubbed Volt Typhoon targeted U.S.-based critical infrastructure entities. CrowdStrike Intelligence tracks this actor as VANGUARD PANDA. Since at least mid-2020, the CrowdStrike Falcon® Complete managed detection and response (MDR) team and the CrowdStrike® Falcon OverWatch™ threat hunting team have observed related historical activity in multiple sectors.
In quick succession at the end of May into mid-June, software developer Progress released three advisories that any customers using its popular managed file transfer (MFT) solution MOVEit should immediately update to the latest release. In this time, they were made aware of three critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-34362 on May 31, CVE-2023-35036 on June 9, and CVE-2023-35708 on June 15.
Chinese hackers use DNS-over-HTTPS for Linux malware communication, a new Golang-based Skuld malware strand steals Discord and browser data from Windows PCs, and a massive phishing campaign uses 6,000 sites to impersonate brands.
