Microsoft and DOJ shut Russian hacking domains

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The U.S. Department of Justice and Microsoft seized over 100 internet domains used by a Russian state-sponsored hacking group called COLDRIVER. The domains were being used to conduct credential harvesting campaigns targeting NGOs, think tanks, and other organizations. Cloudflare reported stopping a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second.

The attack lasted 65 seconds and is part of a recent wave of over 100 large-scale DDoS attacks targeting the financial services, internet, and telecom industries since early September 2024. Researchers discovered that North Korean hackers known as APT37 have been using a new remote access trojan called VeilShell in a stealthy campaign targeting Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries. The malware is being spread through spear-phishing emails.

A large fraud operation involving fake trading apps on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store was uncovered. The apps were used to scam victims in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as part of a “pig butchering” scheme. The malicious apps have been removed from the app stores.

Security flaws were found in over 700,000 DrayTek routers that could allow attackers to remotely take over vulnerable devices.

Microsoft and DOJ dismantle hacking networks

The company has released patches to fix the 14 vulnerabilities after they were responsibly disclosed by researchers.

Chinese hackers known as Salt Typhoon breached the networks of major U.S. internet providers AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen. The hackers likely accessed data from systems used for court-ordered wiretaps, collecting internet traffic from many businesses and millions of Americans. Government agencies in the U.K. and U.S. warned that Iranian hackers linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been conducting spear-phishing campaigns.

The hackers are using social engineering to try to gain access to accounts related to Iranian and Middle Eastern issues. An analysis found that the U.S. National Vulnerability Database has a major backlog of over 18,000 security flaws that have not yet been analyzed. As of September 21, 2024, 72.4% of the recently published vulnerabilities in the database remain unanalyzed.

German researchers uncovered critical security holes in the cryptographic system used to secure the internet’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing system. The flaws in the Resource Public Key Infrastructure could allow denial-of-service attacks and authentication bypasses. Telegram’s recent change in policy to share user IP addresses and phone numbers with authorities has pushed cybercriminal groups to start using alternative encrypted messaging apps like Jabber, Tox, Matrix, Signal, and Session instead.

However, Telegram remains an important platform for various cyber activities due to its huge global user base.

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