Takeaways from the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack
Hank Schless, senior manager of security solutions at Lookout, notes basic steps that organizations can take to protect themselves as ransomware gangs get smarter. [...]
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Avaddon Ransomware Gang Evaporates Amid Global Crackdowns
Ransomware group releases decryptors for nearly 3,000 victims, forfeiting millions in payouts. [...]
Malicious PDFs Flood the Web, Lead to Password-Snarfing
SolarMarker makers are using SEO poisoning, stuffing thousands of PDFs with tens of thousands of pages full of SEO keywords & links to redirect to the malware. [...]
Moobot Milks Tenda Router Bugs for Propagation
An analysis of the campaign revealed Cyberium, an active Mirai-variant malware hosting site. [...]
Cyberpunk 2077 Hacked Data Circulating Online
CD Projekt Red confirmed that employee and game-related data appears to be floating around the cyber-underground, four months after a hack on the Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 developer. [...]
Monumental Supply-Chain Attack on Airlines Traced to State Actor
Airlines are warned to scour networks for traces of the campaign, likely the work of APT41, lurking in networks. [...]
STEM Audio Table Rife with Business-Threatening Bugs
The desktop conferencing IoT gadget allows remote attackers to install all kinds of malware and move laterally to other parts of enterprise networks. [...]
Steam Gaming Platform Hosting Malware
Emerging malware is lurking in Steam profile images. [...]
JBS Paid $11M to REvil Gang Even After Restoring Operations
The decision to pay the ransom demanded by the cybercriminal group was to avoid any further issues or potential problems for its customers, according to the company’s CEO. [...]
Mystery malware steals 26M passwords from 3M PCs. Are you affected?
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Researchers have discovered yet another massive trove of sensitive data, a dizzying 1.2TB database containing login credentials, browser cookies, autofill data, and payment information extracted by malware that has yet to be identified. In all, researchers from NordLocker said on Wednesday, the database contained …
Mystery malware steals 26M passwords from millions of PCs. Are you affected?
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Researchers have discovered yet another massive trove of sensitive data, a dizzying 1.2TB database containing login credentials, browser cookies, autofill data, and payment information extracted by malware that has yet to be identified. In all, researchers from NordLocker said on Wednesday, the database contained …
Mysterious Custom Malware Collects Billions of Stolen Data Points
A nameless malware resulted in a huge data heist of files, credentials, cookies and more that researchers found collected into a cloud database. [...]
DarkSide Pwned Colonial With Old VPN Password
Attackers accessed a VPN account that was no longer in use to freeze the company’s network in a ransomware attack whose repercussions are still vibrating. [...]
Lewd Phishing Lures Aimed at Business Explode
Socially engineered BEC attacks using X-rated material spike 974 percent. [...]
TrickBot Coder Faces Decades in Prison
A Latvian malware developer known as "Max" has been arraigned on 19 counts related to fraud, identity theft, information theft and money laundering. [...]
Evil Corp Impersonates PayloadBin Group to Avoid Federal Sanctions
The cybercriminals try to pin new ransomware on Babuk Locker in an effort to fly under the radar of an ongoing FBI investigation. [...]
FBI Claws Back Millions of DarkSide’s Ransom Profits
The tables have been turned, the FBI & DOJ said after announcing the use of blockchain technology to track down the contents of DarkSide's cryptocurrency wallet. [...]
Bad Apple: App Store Rife with Fraud, Fleeceware
Malicious apps make up 2 percent of top grossing apps in Apple App Store. [...]
Novel ‘Victory’ Backdoor Spotted in Chinese APT Campaign
Researchers said the malware has been under development for at least three years. [...]
Cyberattack Suspected in Cox TV and Radio Outages
Cox Media Group tv, radio station streams affected by a reported ransomware attack. [...]
REvil Ransomware Gang Spill Details on US Attacks
The REvil ransomware gang is interviewed on the Telegram channel called Russian OSINT. [...]
Google PPC Ads Used to Deliver Infostealers
The crooks pay top dollar for Google search results for the popular AnyDesk, Dropbox & Telegram apps that lead to a malicious, infostealer-packed website. [...]
Exchange Servers Targeted by ‘Epsilon Red’ Malware
REvil threat actors may be behind a set of PowerShell scripts developed for encryption and weaponized to exploit vulnerabilities in corporate networks, the ransom note suggests. [...]
Podcast: The State of Ransomware
In this Threatpost podcast, Fortinet’s top researcher sketches out the ransom landscape, with takeaways from the DarkSide attack on Colonial Pipeline. [...]
Banking Attacks Surge Along with Post-COVID Economy
FinTech fraud spikes 159 percent in Q1 2021 along with stimulus spending. [...]
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