New Malware Loader 'Verblecon' Infects Hacked PCs with Cryptocurrency Miners

The Hacker News Daily Updates The 2022 State of Protective Intelligence Report To better understand the current threat landscape, Ontic surveyed 300 physical security, legal and compliance leaders from U.S. enterprise companies. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Mar 29, 2022 New Hacking Campaign by Transparent Tribe Hackers Targeting Indian Officials A threat actor of likely Pakistani origin has been attributed to yet another campaign designed to backdoor targets of interest with a Windows-based remote access trojan named CrimsonRAT since at least June 2021. "Transparent Tribe has been a highly active APT group in the Indian subcontinent," ... Read More Privid: A Privacy-Preserving Surveillance Video Analytics System A group of academics has designed a new system known as "Privid" that enables video analytics in a privacy-preserving manner to combat concerns with invasive tracking. "We're at a stage right now where cameras are practically ubiquitous. If there's a camera on every street corner, every place you ... Read More Critical Sophos Firewall RCE Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation Cybersecurity firm Sophos on Monday warned that a recently patched critical security vulnerability in its firewall product is being actively exploited in real-world attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-1040, is rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scoring system and impacts Sophos Firewall versions ... Read More New Malware Loader 'Verblecon' Infects Hacked PCs with Cryptocurrency Miners An unidentified threat actor has been observed employing a "complex and powerful" malware loader with the ultimate objective of deploying cryptocurrency miners on compromised systems and potentially facilitating the theft of Discord tokens. "The evidence found on victim networks appears to ... Read More Experts Detail Virtual Machine Used by Wslink Malware Loader for Obfuscation Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a malicious loader that runs as a server and executes received modules in memory, laying bare the structure of an "advanced multi-layered virtual machine" used by the malware to fly under the radar. Wslink, as the malicious loader is called, was ... Read More The 2022 State of Protective Intelligence Report To better understand the current threat landscape, Ontic surveyed 300 physical security, legal and compliance leaders from U.S. enterprise companies. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to myemailku.ghdbrevo2018@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India