Portugal Media Giant Impresa Crippled by Ransomware Attack
The websites of the company and the Expresso newspaper, as well as all of its SIC TV channels remained offline Tuesday after the New Year’s weekend attack. [...]
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What the Rise in Cyber-Recon Means for Your Security Strategy
Expect many more zero-day exploits in 2022, and cyberattacks using them being launched at a significantly higher rate, warns Aamir Lakhani, researcher at FortiGuard Labs. [...]
5 Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2022
Here’s what cybersecurity watchers want infosec pros to know heading into 2022. [...]
Claims Polish government used spyware is ‘crisis for democracy’, says opposition
Opposition leader Donald Tusk calls for inquiry after watchdog says government’s rivals were targeted by Pegasus spyware Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk said on Tuesday reports that the government spied on its opponents represented the country’s biggest “crisis for democracy” since the end of communism. A cybersecurity …
2021 Wants Another Chance (A Lighter-Side Year in Review)
The year wasn't ALL bad news. These sometimes cringe-worthy/sometimes laughable cybersecurity and other technology stories offer schadenfreude and WTF opportunities, and some giggles. [...]
Global Cyberattacks from Nation-State Actors Posing Greater Threats
Casey Ellis, CTO at Bugcrowd, outlines how international relations have deteriorated into a new sort of Cold War, with espionage playing out in the cyber-domain. [...]
The 5 Most-Wanted Threatpost Stories of 2021
A look back at what was hot with readers in this second year of the pandemic. [...]
Telegram Abused to Steal Crypto-Wallet Credentials
Attackers use the Telegram handle “Smokes Night” to spread the malicious Echelon infostealer, which steals credentials for cryptocurrency and other user accounts, researchers said. [...]
‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Download Installs Cryptominer
The origin of the Monero cryptominer file has been traced to a Russian torrent website, researchers report. [...]
PYSA Emerges as Top Ransomware Actor in November
Overtaking the Conti ransomware gang, PYSA finds success with government-sector attacks. [...]
Conti Ransomware Gang Has Full Log4Shell Attack Chain
Conti has become the first professional-grade, sophisticated ransomware group to weaponize Log4j2, now with a full attack chain. [...]
UN-backed investigator into possible Yemen war crimes targeted by spyware
Exclusive: Analysis of Kamel Jendoubi’s mobile phone reveals he was targeted in August 2019 The mobile phone of a UN-backed investigator who was examining possible war crimes in Yemen was targeted with spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, a new forensic analysis of the device has revealed …
How cut-and-pasted programming is putting the internet and society at risk | John Naughton
A vulnerability has been exposed in Minecraft, the bestselling video game of all time – and the security implications outside the world of gaming are vast In one of those delicious coincidences that warm the cockles of every tech columnist’s heart, in the same week that the entire internet …
Facebook Bans Spy-for-Hire Firms for Targeting 50K People
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said that the seven banned actors run fake accounts on its platforms to deceive users and plant malware on targets’ phones. [...]
Malicious Joker App Scores Half-Million Downloads on Google Play
Joker malware was found lurking in the Color Message app, ready to fleece unsuspecting users with premium SMS charges. [...]
Convergence Ahoy: Get Ready for Cloud-Based Ransomware
Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra AI, takes us inside the coming nexus of ransomware, supply-chain attacks and cloud deployments. [...]
Conti Gang Suspected of Ransomware Attack on McMenamins
The incident occurred last weekend at the popular chain of restaurants, hotels and breweries, which is still facing disruptions. [...]
Google Play app with 500,000 downloads sent user contacts to Russian server
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) An Android app with more than 500,000 downloads from Google Play has been caught hosting malware that surreptitiously sends users’ contacts to an attacker-controlled server and signs up users to pricey subscriptions, a security firm reported. The app, named Color Message, was still available …
Backdoor gives hackers complete control over federal agency network
Enlarge (credit: Jeremy Brooks / Flickr ) A US federal agency has been hosting a backdoor that can provide total visibility into and complete control over the agency network, and the researchers who discovered it have been unable to engage with the administrators responsible, security firm Avast said on Thursday. The …
‘Tropic Trooper’ Reemerges to Target Transportation Outfits
Analysts warn that the attack group, now known as 'Earth Centaur,' is honing its attacks to go after transportation and government agencies. [...]
‘PseudoManuscrypt’ Mass Spyware Campaign Targets 35K Systems
It’s similar to Lazarus’s Manuscrypt malware, but the new spyware is splattering itself onto government organizations and ICS in a non-Lazarus-like, untargeted wave of attacks. [...]
‘DarkWatchman’ RAT Shows Evolution in Fileless Malware
The new tool manipulates Windows Registry in unique ways to evade security detections and is likely being used by ransomware groups for initial network access. [...]
Relentless Log4j Attacks Include State Actors, Possible Worm
More than 1.8 million attacks, against half of all corporate networks, have already launched to exploit Log4Shell. [...]
Malicious Exchange Server Module Hoovers Up Outlook Credentials
"Owowa" stealthily lurks on IIS servers, waiting to harvest successful logins when an Outlook Web Access (OWA) authentication request is made. [...]
Apache’s Fix for Log4Shell Can Lead to DoS Attacks
Not only is the jaw-dropping flaw in the Apache Log4j logging library ubiquitous; Apache’s blanket of a quickly baked patch for Log4Shell also has holes. [...]
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