Frontier Communications Systems Shut Down by Breach
Frontier Communications’ parent company announced that the telco company is facing disruptions due to shutting down its systems as a result of a data breach.
Frontier’s regulatory filing regarding the breach disclosed that they believe the attack was initiated by a threat actor group that could have access to personal information.
OpenMetaData Kubernetes Vulnerabilities Exploited
Microsoft announced the exploitation of five OpenMetaData vulnerabilities by threat actors since the first week of April.
Stemming from internet-exposed Kubernetes workloads, the OpenMetaData vulnerabilities could allow threat actors to achieve code execution on the Kubernetes containers running the OpenMetaData image.
Middle Eastern Governments Targeted by Evasive “CR4T” Backdoor
Kaspersky reported on their discovery of the cyber campaign labeled “DuneQuixote,” which targets Middle Eastern government agencies through a sophisticated backdoor to spread malware.
The backdoor, “CR4T,” is a C/C++-based memory-only implant that enables threat actors to access consoles for command-line execution. This can lead to uploading and downloading illicit files onto affected systems.
