A novel and sophisticated backdoor malware named 'Deadglyph' was seen used in a cyberespionage attack against a government agency in the Middle East.
A new PowerShell-based malware dubbed PowerExchange was used in attacks linked to APT34 Iranian state hackers to backdoor on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers.
Mozilla has decided to block DarkMatter from becoming a trusted root certificate authority in Firefox due to concerns that their certificates could be used for malicious purposes. In a double blow, Mozilla has also decided to revoke trust in intermediary certificates used by DarkMatter.
A United Arab Emirates based cybersecurity company named DarkMatter wants to become a trusted root certificate authority in Firefox and security professionals around the world are concerned.