Jewett-Cameron Trading said hackers exfiltrated IT information as well as financial data the company has been gathering over the past few weeks in preparation of filing its annual fiscal report with the SEC.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Rust-based backdoor called ChaosBot that can allow operators to conduct reconnaissance and execute arbitrary commands on compromised hosts.
"Threat actors leveraged compromised credentials that mapped to both Cisco VPN and an over-privileged Active Directory account named, 'serviceaccount,'" eSentire said in a technical report published
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