In Lebanon, nearly 1 in 5 people has been displaced by Israeli attacks, leaving the government to manage a modern crisis without modern digital infrastructure.
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new variantΒ ofmalwareΒ called Chaosthat'scapable ofΒ hitting misconfigured cloud deployments, marking an expansion of the botnet's targeting infrastructure.
"Chaos malware is increasingly targeting misconfigured cloud deployments, expanding beyond its traditional focus on routers and edge devices,"Β Darktrace said in a newΒ report.
Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the curtain on a stealthy botnet that's designed for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)Β attacks.
Called Masjesu, the botnet has been advertised via Telegram as a DDoS-for-hire service since it first surfaced in 2023. It's capable of targeting a wide range of IoT devices, such as routers and gateways, spanning multiple architectures.
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The Russian threat actor knownΒ as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard and Pawn Storm) has been linked to a fresh spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukraine and its allies to deploy a previously undocumented malware suiteΒ codenamed PRISMEX.
"PRISMEX combines advanced steganography, component object model (COM) hijacking, and legitimate cloud service abuse for command-and-control," Trend Micro