Skip to content
LOTUSLITE Backdoor Targets U.S. Policy Entities Using Venezuela-Themed Spear Phishing

LOTUSLITE Backdoor Targets U.S. Policy Entities Using Venezuela-Themed Spear Phishing

Security experts have disclosed details of a new campaign that has targeted U.S. government and policy entities using politically themed lures to deliver a backdoor known as LOTUSLITE. The targeted malware campaign leverages decoys related to the recent geopolitical developments between the U.S. and Venezuela to distribute a ZIP archiveRead More »LOTUSLITE Backdoor Targets U.S. Policy Entities Using Venezuela-Themed Spear Phishing

Cisco Patches Vulnerability Exploited by Chinese Hackers

UAT-9686 exploited the bug to deploy the AquaShell backdoor on Cisco appliances with certain ports open to the internet. The post Cisco Patches Vulnerability Exploited by Chinese Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

China-Linked APT Exploits Sitecore Zero-Day in Attacks on American Critical Infrastructure

China-Linked APT Exploits Sitecore Zero-Day in Attacks on American Critical Infrastructure

A threat actor likely aligned with China has been observed targeting critical infrastructure sectors in North America since at least last year. Cisco Talos, which is tracking the activity under the name UAT-8837, assessed it to be a China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) actor with medium confidence based on tacticalRead More »China-Linked APT Exploits Sitecore Zero-Day in Attacks on American Critical Infrastructure

Cisco Patches Zero-Day RCE Exploited by China-Linked APT in Secure Email Gateways

Cisco Patches Zero-Day RCE Exploited by China-Linked APT in Secure Email Gateways

Cisco on Thursday released security updates for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, nearly a month after the company disclosed that it had been exploited as a zero-day by a China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) actorRead More »Cisco Patches Zero-Day RCE Exploited by China-Linked APT in Secure Email Gateways

AWS CodeBuild Misconfiguration Exposed GitHub Repos to Potential Supply Chain Attacks

AWS CodeBuild Misconfiguration Exposed GitHub Repos to Potential Supply Chain Attacks

A critical misconfiguration in Amazon Web Services (AWS) CodeBuild could have allowed complete takeover of the cloud service provider’s own GitHub repositories, including its AWS JavaScript SDK, putting every AWS environment at risk. The vulnerability has been codenamed CodeBreach by cloud security company Wiz. The issue was fixed by AWSRead More »AWS CodeBuild Misconfiguration Exposed GitHub Repos to Potential Supply Chain Attacks

Copyright © 2026 infosecintel.net