Russia-Linked TA505 targets financial institutions in a new malspam campaign
Russia-linked TA505 group leverages a lightweight Office file to spread malware in a campaign, tracked as MirrorBlast, aimed at financial...
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US Treasury FinCEN linked $5.2 billion in BTC transactions to ransomware payments
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) linked roughly $5.2 billion worth of Bitcoin transactions to ransomware. The...
Accenture discloses data breach after LockBit ransomware attack
IT and consulting giant Accenture confirmed a data breach after the ransomware attack conducted by LockBit operators in August 2021....
Juniper Networks released +40 security advisories to fix +70 vulnerabilities
Cybersecurity provider Juniper Networks released more than 40 security advisories to address over 70 vulnerabilities that affect its solutions. Cybersecurity...
Boffins devise a new side-channel attack affecting all AMD CPUs
A group of researchers from the Graz University of Technology and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security devised a new...
What is an .exe file? Is it the same as an executable?
You may often see .exe files but you may not know what they are. Is it the same as an...
Three more ransomware attacks hit Water and Wastewater systems in 2021
A joint cybersecurity advisory published by US agencies revealed that three ransomware attacks on wastewater systems this year. A joint cybersecurity advisory published...
WhatsApp made available end-to-end encrypted chat backups
WhatsApp made available end-to-end encrypted chat backups on iOS and Android to prevent anyone from accessing user chats. WhatsApp is...
Since 2020, at least 130 different ransomware families have been active
The popular Google’s VirusTotal scanning service has published an interesting analysis of more than 80 Million ransomware samples. VirusTotal has...
Adblocker promises to blocks ads, injects them instead
Researchers at Imperva uncovered a new ad injection campaign based on an adblocker named AllBlock. The AllBlock extension was available...
Google sent over 50,000 warnings of state-sponsored attacks, +33% from same period in 2020
Google revealed to have sent roughly 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or hacking attempts to customers since January. Google announced...
For the first time, an Israeli hospital was hit by a major ransomware attack
The Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, Israel, was hit by a ransomware attack that was defined by Israel’s National...
Acer suffered the second security breach in a few months
Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer discloses a security breach suffered by its after-sales service systems in India after an isolated...
Inside Apple: How Apple’s attitude impacts security
Last week saw the fourth occurrence of the Objective by the Sea (OBTS) security conference, which is the only security...
New Yanluowang ransomware used in highly targeted attacks on large orgs
Researchers spotted a new strain of ransomware, dubbed Yanluowang, that was used in highly targeted attacks against enterprises. Researchers from...
Apple silently fixed iOS zero-day without crediting the expet who reported it
Apple has silently addressed a zero-day vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain access to sensitive user data. Apple has...
MyKings botnet operators already amassed at least $24 million
The MyKings botnet (aka Smominru or DarkCloud) is still alive and continues to spread, allowing its operators to make huge...
“Free Steam game” scams on TikTok are Among Us
TikTok has long since evolved beyond being thought of as “just” dance clips, also becoming a home for educational and...
Patch now! Microsoft fixes 71 Windows vulnerabilities in October Patch Tuesday
Yesterday we told you about Apple’s latest patches. Today we turn to Microsoft and its Patch Tuesday. Microsoft tends to...
Dutch police warn customers of a popular DDoS booter service
Dutch police warn customers of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) website of stopping using the service to avoid prosecution. Dutch police...
Crooks use math symbols to evade anti-phishing solutions
Threat actors are using mathematical symbols on impersonated company logos to evade detection in phishing campaigns. Researchers from anti-phishing cybersecurity...
Chinese APT IronHusky use Win zero-day in recent wave of attacks
A Chinese-speaking hacking group exploited a Windows zero-day vulnerability in a wave of attacks on defense and IT businesses. A...
MysterySnail attacks with Windows zero-day
Executive Summary In late August and early September 2021, Kaspersky technologies detected attacks with the use of an elevation of...
SAS 2021: Learning to ChaCha with APT41
Straight from the sunny UK to the stage of SAS-at-Home 2021, John Southworth (PwC) will be giving some insights about...
