Our weekly summary of cybersecurity news provides information on the most recent threats, vulnerabilities, innovations, attacks, dangers, and stories in the field.
It also discusses possible upcoming malicious tactics that can threaten the devices and make you take defensive measures just in time.
This is important as it enables us to put appropriate security measures in place on time consequently being defensive.
In addition, this continuing situational comprehension promotes a comprehensive perception that ensures proper system strengthening against ever-changing threat matrixes and risk management.
Threats
8220 Gang Exploiting Oracle WebLogic Server Flaw
A notorious cryptojacking group, ‘The 8220 Gang’ is actively leveraging a six-year-old Oracle WebLogic loophole (CVE-2017-3506) to release cryptocurrency mining viruses.
Once this vulnerable point is exploited then any person can gain unauthenticated access to remote commands and it means that someone’s sensitive data or even the whole system could get compromised.
To evade the detection from the Windows Antimalware Scan Interface, the gang has been using PowerShell and gets its payload as an obfuscated one. Further,…
