Students are using a 'backdoor' to attend their dream schools

High-school grads find an alternative way into top-choice colleges, moving to town, enrolling in online classes and taking ...

More companies use ‘backdoor’ job references to counter AI

What your former co-workers think of you could land you a job or torpedo your chances.
The Hacker News

China-Linked SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands to Windows with Driver-Based Stealth

ESET found two Windows SprySOCKS variants with 30+ commands, C2 over TCP, UDP, and WebSocket, and government targets in 4 ...

Chinese APT deploys new malware to keep access to hacked networks

A Chinese espionage group tracked as UNC5221 has been accessing Microsoft 365 environments using the Brickstorm backdoor and ...
WeLiveSecurity

FishMonger’s arsenal upgraded: SprySOCKS for Windows

ESET researchers have discovered SprySOCKS for Windows, FishMonger’s backdoor weaponizing a kernel driver for advanced ...
Dark Reading

APT41 Delivers 'Zero-Detection' Backdoor to Harvest Cloud Credentials

The notorious Chinese threat group APT41 is using an undetectable backdoor malware to target Linux-based cloud workloads to steal credentials from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP ...
Bleeping Computer

Docker Hub still hosts dozens of Linux images with the XZ backdoor

The XZ-Utils backdoor, first discovered in March 2024, is still present in at least 35 Linux images on Docker Hub, potentially putting users, organizations, and their data at risk. Docker Hub is the ...
SecurityWeek

Microsoft Teams Relay Servers Abused in DragonForce Ransomware Attack

DragonForce ransomware operators are using a new backdoor that relies on Microsoft Teams relay servers for C&C.
WeLiveSecurity

You will always remember this as the day you finally caught FamousSparrow

In July 2024, ESET Research noticed suspicious activity on the system of a trade group in the United States that operates in the financial sector. While helping the affected entity remediate the ...