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UNC7017 tampers with AOMEI Backupper update servers in short windows to deliver CROSSROAD and SHINYROAD backdoors

Between May and July 2026, attackers tracked by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) as UNC7017 altered files on AOMEI's own update servers for windows of 5 to 10 minutes. Any copy of AOMEI Backupper that checked for updates during a window downloaded and ran a backdoor. GTIG, Mandiant and ManageEngine's Threat Analysis Lab disclosed t…

thehackernews.com · · 2 fontes · 2 atualizações high

BRONZE SANDCASTLE: suspected China-based cluster uses Sandboxie DLL sideloading and custom backdoors to steal ntds.dit in Asia and Africa

BRONZE SANDCASTLE (written Bronze Sandcastle by thehackernews.com) is a previously undocumented intrusion set disclosed by SophosLabs on 2026-10-21. It is assessed as China-based or China-aligned and has been active since mid-2025 (thehackernews.com). Between August 2025 and August 2026 it compromised victims in the Philippines, Taiwan, A…

thehackernews.com · · 4 fontes · 4 atualizações critical

Attackers abuse UpdraftCentral keys stolen in TeamUpdraft breach to backdoor WordPress sites via malicious plugins

Unknown threat actors breached the TeamUpdraft website on 17-18 October 2026 and likely accessed its customer database, which holds connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault and UpdraftClone. Patchstack observed an attacker holding valid UpdraftCentral dashboard keys issuing signed commands to install backdoor plugins on connected …

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CL-STA-0954 exploits FortiOS CVE-2025-61624 to deploy memory-resident ARM64 implant PEERSTITCH after FortiJump breach

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 reports that a suspected advanced actor tracked as CL-STA-0954 (aka UNC5820) deployed a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 implant, PEERSTITCH, on Fortinet FortiGate firewalls. The group exploited the FortiOS path traversal flaw CVE-2025-61624 for the final stage. The intrusion hit a telecommunications …

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Cyber Partisans (Partisan Zmiy) hid Vasilek backdoor in VMware Tools in two-year intrusion at Russian healthcare organization

Russian firm Solar (a Rostelecom subsidiary) reported a nearly two-year intrusion at an unnamed Russian healthcare organization, attributed to the Belarus-aligned hacktivist cluster Partisan Zmiy (Cyber Partisans). Solar found the compromise in December 2025, but the earliest signs date to early 2024. Unlike the group's usual destructive …

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Compromised ConnectWise Cloud Backup (SkyKick) OAuth app credential used to access 173+ Microsoft 365 tenants

An active supply chain attack is abusing a compromised credential for the ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) Microsoft 365 OAuth application, giving unknown actors access to customer tenants. Huntress confirmed unauthorized sign-ins in 173 partner/customer tenants, and Microsoft reports broad successful service principal authenti…

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Fake Web3 'Apex Accelerator' (REF8801) uses malicious npm packages to deploy stealers, CloudSyncD backdoor and hijack AI agent traffic

Elastic Security Labs is tracking REF8801, a campaign in which a fake Web3 venture capital accelerator, Apex Accelerator (Apex Foundation), targets cryptocurrency startups and founders with malicious npm packages. The packages, @apexacc/cli and @apexacc/audit, pose as an AI advisor and an MCP-based security scanner, with offers of free Cl…

thehackernews.com · · 2 fontes · 2 atualizações high

Attackers hijack 300+ Tor exit relays to intercept SSH password logins and deploy Ebury 1.8.3 backdoor

Attackers took over more than 300 Tor exit relays in early October 2026 and changed their exit policies so SSH (TCP port 22) traffic was redirected to 12 attacker-controlled interception servers that harvested passwords and attempted to install the Ebury 1.8.3 backdoor. Researcher kaba found 333 redirecting exits (roughly 10% of about 3,0…

thehackernews.com · · 4 fontes · 5 atualizações critical

Plex2Shell: Plex Media Server exploit chain exploited within a day of PoC to drop XMRig and myawesomeproxy; CISA adds four CVEs to KEV

Attackers began exploiting Plex2Shell, a chain of four Plex Media Server vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-96652, CVE-2026-96654, CVE-2026-96655, CVE-2026-96656), on October 17, 2026. That was about a day after researcher Zach Main published a write-up and PoC on October 16. The chain gives unauthenticated remote code execution with the privilege…

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Qilin and Settra exploit PAN-OS CVE-2026-0257; ThreatsDay roundup of new RATs, stealers, WordPress backdoor and Meta GitHub breach

Qilin and Settra ransomware groups are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in PAN-OS GlobalProtect and Prisma Access disclosed in May 2026, according to ReliaQuest. Because access arrives through the victim's own VPN, it can resemble legitimate remote work and go unnoticed until credential theft, lateral movement, …