Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 10 April to 16 April 2023

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Summary

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HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, they identified a total of nine attacks that were executed. These attacks were taking advantage of seven different vulnerabilities in various systems. Additionally, HiveForce Labs identified five different adversaries that were actively carrying out these attacks.

Interestingly, all the seven vulnerabilities are part of the known exploited vulnerability catalog by CISA. 

Moreover, HiveForce Labs also found that UNC4466  was exploiting a group of three old vulnerabilities to deploy Blackcat ransomware to carry out attacks.

Furthermore, they identified new actor called DEV-1084 building partnership with an old actor MERCURY to perform destructive attacks.

Apart from these threats, there was also an increase in the ransomware attacks over the past week. These attacks included Blackcat, Nokoyawa, Trigona and Cylance. All these attacks were observed to be on the rise, posing a significant threat to users all over the world.