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Weekly Top Ten Cybersecurity Stories – 5.6.2022

WEEKLY TOP TEN | MAY 6, 2022 13:01 GMT

Our Threat Operations and Intelligence team compiles a daily digest of new cybersecurity threats from around the Internet. This top 10 has been culled from the 40+ unique stories we found relevant over the week, ranked by highest risk:

  1. AvosLocker Variant Abusing Legitimate Security Driver and Log4Shell to Propagate
    https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/22/e/avoslocker-ransomware-variant-abuses-driver-file-to-disable-anti-Virus-scans-log4shell.html
  2. Kaspersky Discovers Fileless Malware Injecting Into Windows Event Logs For Defense Evasion
    https://threatpost.com/attackers-use-event-logs-to-hide-fileless-malware/179484/
  3. Emotet Botnet Operators Testing New Techniques in Advance of Windows VBA Macro Changes
    https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/130739/cyber-crime/emotet-operators-test-new-techniques.html
  4. Synology Discloses Multiple Vulnerabilites in QNAP NAS Devices via Netatalk Security Flaws
    https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/130778/hacking/synology-netatalk-vulnerabilities.html
  5. SentinelOne Officially Discloses Avast Driver Flaw Allowing for Disabling of Security Products and Code Execution
    https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/130944/security/avast-avg-antivirus-flaws.html
  6. Threat Actor UNC3524 Performing Bulk Email Collection To Support Espionage Campaign Focused on Operational Security and Longer Dwell Times
    https://www.mandiant.com/resources/unc3524-eye-spy-email
  7. Security Researchers Discover Multi-year Winnti Campaign That Stole Troves of Intellectual Property Data
    https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252516710/Intellectual-property-theft-operation-attributed-to-Winnti-group
  8. CoFense Discusses Leaked Conti Logs, Focusing on Phishing and Threat Selection Methodology
    https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blogs/phishing-takeaways-from-the-conti/
  9. Pro-Ukraine Hackers Abusing Docker Installs to Launch DDoS Attacks Against Russian Organizations
    https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/130901/cyber-warfare-2/docker-images-ddos-attack-russia.html
  10. Security Researcher Discovers Vulnerability in Several Ransomware Samples, Preventing Encryption via DLL Hijacking
    https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/130883/malware/stoppin-ransomware-with-dll-hijacking.html
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