Experts encourage investment in attribution technologies

Attacks by Russian threat operation APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, Strontium, and Forest Blizzard, using the GooseEgg malware to exploit the Windows print spooler flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-38028, have prompted the security issue's inclusion to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, Security Affairs reports.

Attacks leveraging fraudulent job lures to distribute the new Kaolin RAT malware have been launched by North Korean hacking collective Lazarus Group against individuals across Asia last summer, reports The Hacker News.

Millions of devices could still be compromised by the abandoned PlugX USB worm with self-replicating functionality, with infections logged from almost 2.5 million IP addresses over a six-month period beginning September 2023, according to Ars Technica.