Iran-linked APT groups continue to evolve
The researchers at Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) are warning of increasingly sophisticated operations carried out by Iranian threat actors....
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Mandiant links Ghostwriter operations to Belarus
Security researchers at the Mandiant Threat Intelligence team believe that Ghostwriter APT group is linked to the government of Belarus....
GitHub addressed two major vulnerabilities in the NPM package manager
Maintainers of the npm package manager for the JavaScript programming language disclosed multiple flaws that were recently addressed. GitHub disclosed two major vulnerabilities...
TrickBot helps Emotet come back from the dead
Probably one of the best known threats for the past several years, Emotet has always been under intense scrutiny from...
When renting a hitman online goes horribly wrong
You might think looking up an illegal act online, and then visiting a website claiming to be all about doing...
SoNot SoSafe: Android malware disguises itself as secure messaging app
If you haven’t heard of SoSafe Chat, you will now. This Android app, purported as a secure messaging application that...
SharkBot Android banking Trojan cleans users out
Researchers have discovered and analyzed a new Android banking Trojan that allows attackers to steal sensitive banking information such as...
Adult cam site StripChat exposes the data of millions of users and cam models
The popular adult cam site StripChat has suffered a security breach, the personal data of millions of users and adult...
New Mac malware raises more questions about Apple’s security patching
Apple’s reputation on security has been taking a beating lately. As mentioned in some of our previous coverage, security researcher...
Intel addresses 2 high-severity issues in BIOS firmware of several processors
Intel disclosed two high-severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-0157 and CVE-2021-0158, that affect the BIOS firmware in several processor families. Intel...
SharkBot, a new Android Trojan targets banks in Europe
Security researchers from Cleafy discovered a new Android banking trojan, named SharkBot, that is targeting banks in Europe. At the...
Operation Reacharound – Emotet malware is back
The Emotet botnet is still active, ten months after an international operation coordinated by Europol shut down its infrastructure. Early...
US-CERT Bulletin (SB21-319):Vulnerability Summary for the Week of November 8, 2021
The CISA Vulnerability Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards...
Cloudflare mitigated 2 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest attack it has seen to date
Cloudflare announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at almost 2 terabytes per second (Tbps). Cloudflare,...
FBI server hijacked to send up to 100,000 bogus attack mails
If you received a scary missive from what appears to be from the FBI over the last few days, you’re...
North Korea-linked Lazarus group targets cybersecurity experts with Trojanized IDA Pro
North Korea-linked APT Lazarus targets security researchers using a trojanized pirated version of the popular IDA Pro reverse engineering software....
Microsoft rolled out emergency updates to fix Windows Server auth failures
Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address authentication issues affecting Windows Server. Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to fix...
Evasive maneuvers: HTML smuggling explained
Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) last week disclosed “a highly evasive malware delivery technique that leverages legitimate HTML5 and JavaScript...
Instagram’s memorialize feature abused to memorialize…Instagram’s boss
The mechanisms for memorialising the social network accounts of people who’ve died haven’t really suffered a lot of scrutiny up...
Happy 10th Birthday, Security Affairs
Ten years together! I’m very excited. I launched Security Affairs for passion in 2011 and millions of readers walked with...
QAKBOT Trojan returns using Squirrelwaffle as a dropper
Experts warn of a surge in infections of the QBot (aka Quakbot) banking trojan which seems to be associated with...
A week in security (Nov 8 – Nov 14)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Multiple video games break after domain name snafuHow to remove adware on an Android phoneSmart...
Two Sony PS5 exploits disclosed the same day
Threat actors stole PS5 root keys using kernel exploits demonstrating the need to improve the security of the popular gaming...
ENISA – The need for Incident Response Capabilities in the health sector
ENISA analyzed the current state of development of sectoral CSIRT capabilities in the health sector since the implementation of the...
