Lazarus Group Uses PondRAT, ThemeForestRAT and RemotePE in Social‑Engineering Strike on DeFi Organization

Lazarus Group Uses PondRAT, ThemeForestRAT and RemotePE in Social‑Engineering Strike on DeFi Organization Summary of the observed campaign Security researchers at NCC Group’s Fox‑IT observed a social‑engineering campaign in 2024 that has been attributed to the North Korea‑linked actor known as the Lazarus Group. The campaign distributed three distinct pieces of cross‑platform malware — named…

Cloudflare Says It Mitigated Record 11.5 Tbps Volumetric DDoS Attack

Cloudflare Says It Mitigated Record 11.5 Tbps Volumetric DDoS Attack What Cloudflare reported Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said it recently blocked the largest recorded volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). Cloudflare said it recently blocked the largest recorded volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which peaked at 11.5 terabits…

Silver Fox Abuses Microsoft-Signed WatchDog Driver amsdk.sys to Deploy ValleyRAT

Silver Fox Abuses Microsoft-Signed WatchDog Driver amsdk.sys to Deploy ValleyRAT Overview Security researchers attribute a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) campaign to a threat actor known as Silver Fox that leverages a previously unknown vulnerable Windows kernel driver to neutralize endpoint defenses and deploy ValleyRAT. The vulnerable component is a 64-bit, validly signed kernel…

Zscaler Salesforce Breach Exposes Customer Support Data After Salesloft/Drift Vendor Compromise

Zscaler Salesforce Breach Exposes Customer Support Data After Salesloft/Drift Vendor Compromise What happened Cybersecurity firm Zscaler has disclosed a data breach after threat actors gained access to its Salesforce instance and extracted customer information, including the contents of support cases. According to Zscaler’s notification and reporting by BleepingComputer, the intrusion followed compromises at third‑party vendors…