Lil’ skimmer, the Magecart impersonator
This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura A very common practice among criminals consists of mimicking legitimate infrastructure when...
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Is it game over for VR advergaming?
We’ve been warning about advergaming—the combination of virtual reality (VR) and ads—for years on the Labs Blog. I’ve given a...
REvil Hits Brazilian Healthcare Giant Grupo Fleury
São Paulo-based medical diagnostic firm Grupo Fleury has suffered a ransomware attack that has impaired business operations after the company...
Zyxel Warns Customers About Hackers Targeting its Firewalls & VPN Devices
Zyxel, a manufacturer of enterprise routers and VPN devices, has issued a notification that attackers are targeting its devices and...
Detecting unknown threats: a honeypot how-to
Catching threats is tricky business, especially in today’s threat landscape. To tackle this problem, for many years сybersecurity researchers have...
Microsoft investigates threat actor distributing malicious Netfilter Driver
Microsoft is investigating an strange attack, threat actor used a driver signed by the company, the Netfilter Driver, to implant...
The builder for Babuk Locker ransomware was leaked online
The builder for the Babuk Locker ransomware was leaked online, threat actors can use it to create their own ransomware...
Six typosquatting packages in PyPI repository laced with crypto miner
Researchers discovered six rogue packages in the official Python programming language’s PyPI repository containg cryptocurrency mining malware. Experts from security firm Sonatype have...
A week in security (June 21 – June 27)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Want to stop ransomware attacks? Send the cybercriminals to jail, says Brian Honan: Lock and...
Atlassian Patched Vulnerabilities in its Domains
On Wednesday 23rd of June, cyber-security experts uncovered key vulnerabilities in the Atlassian project and software development platform that might...
Hackers are Remotely Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives
The whole goal of using a network-attached storage device is to have a hard drive where you can back up...
This Malware Generated $2 Million After Abusing 222,000 Windows Systems
Avast researchers published a report on Thursday regarding the discovery of a cryptocurrency mining malware that abuses Windows Safe mode...
800+ Million WordPress Users Records Leaked Online
On 16 April 2021, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler together with the Website Planet Research Team revealed a non-password secured database...
Crackonosh Malware Exploits Windows Safe Mode to Mine Cryptocurrency Secretly
Researchers have uncovered a variant of cryptocurrency-mining malware that exploits Windows Safe Mode during attacks. Researchers at Avast have termed the...
Crackonosh Monero miner made $2M after infecting 222,000 Win systems
Researchers have discovered a strain of cryptocurrency-mining malware, tracked as Crackonosh, that abuses Windows Safe mode to avoid detection. Researchers from Avast...
Security Affairs newsletter Round 320
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for...
Hackers target Cisco ASA devices after a PoC exploit code was published online
Experts warn of attacks against Cisco ASA devices after researchers have published a PoC exploit code on Twitter for a...
Mercedes-Benz data breach impacted roughly 1000 individuals
Mercedes-Benz USA disclosed a data breach that impacted 1.6 million customers, exposed data includes financial data and social security numbers...
Attackers Pummelled the Gaming Industry During the Pandemic
According to Akamai, a content delivery network (CDN), the gaming business has seen more cyberattacks than any other industry during...
VMware Patches Authentication Bypass in Carbon Black App Control
VMware, the California-based cloud computing and virtualization technology firm has patched an authentication bypass vulnerability in its Carbon Black App...
A New GoLang Trojan ChaChi Used in Attacks Against US Schools
A new Trojan written in the Go programming language has shifted its focus from government agencies to schools in the...
Mercedes-Benz USA: Nearly 1,000 Customers’ Data Accessible Online
Mercedes-Benz USA stated on Thursday 24th of June, that sensitive information was made inadvisably accessible on a cloud storage network...
Microsoft: Russia-linked SolarWinds hackers breached three new entities
Microsoft discovered that Russia-linked SolarWinds hackers, tracked as Nobelium, have breached the network of three new organizations. Microsoft revealed on...
New ransomware group Hive leaks Altus group sample files
On June 14th, Altus Group, a commercial real estate software solutions firm, disclosed a security breach, now Hive ransomware gang...
