Operation StealthyTrident: corporate software under attack
LuckyMouse, TA428, HyperBro, Tmanger and ShadowPad linked in Mongolian supply-chain attack
LuckyMouse, TA428, HyperBro, Tmanger and ShadowPad linked in Mongolian supply-chain attack
Maze ransomware, one of the most dangerous and potent strains of Windows ransomware that have hit companies and organizations around the world and demanded a payment in cryptocurrency in exchange for a safe recovery of encrypted data, has now officially announced the shutting down of its operations on its website on the dark web. Though […]
A group of ransomware operators known as Darkside has been extorting various companies around the world, although they do not seem to pursue the same purposes as other similar hacking groups. Through a dark web forum, criminals posted receipts for $10,000 USD in Bitcoin donations sent to two nonprofits. In their publication hackers claim that […]
Throughout its monitoring, ESET analyzed thousands of malicious samples every month to help this effort
Law enforcement agencies from Great Britain and Romania Cyber division have identified one of the operators behind the infamous GandCrab Ransomware attack. The Man who has been arrested was an affiliate with GandCrab developers and responsible for the infection and earning commission for each ransom payments. GandCrab ransomware attack was a high profile cybercrime, and […]
ESET researchers uncover targeted attacks against high-profile aerospace and military companies
As if it wasn’t hard enough to have their data compromised, businesses who fell victim to Maze ransomware are now facing another threat: their data could become public. Maze’s operators have been collecting data from victim organisations for a while, ultimately using it as a weapon until payment is received to decrypt archives. Now, for […]
Two were sentenced prison for running a “major darkweb dug operation” out of their Liverpool home. According to evidence revealed in court, the duo shipped hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of methamphetamine, MDMA, ketamine, and cocaine to customers across the globe. Officers with the North West Regional Organized Crime Unit raided the Toxteth home […]
In 2014 Europol, the European law enforcement agency, in collaboration with agencies from 18 EU member states, INTERPOL, the US National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center and Eurojust initiated a global operation against piracy websites dubbed ‘Operation In Our Sites X‘ (IOSX). It is a joint investigative effort to put an end to the […]
IM-RAT, which could be had for as little as US$25, was bought by nearly 15,000 people
Operation and Arrests An international operation led by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) took down the Imminent Monitor web page and shut down the sale of the now-defunct Imminent Monitor Remote Access Trojan (IM-RAT). The takedown operation resulted in the arrest of 13 of the ‘most prolific’ users of the Remote Access Trojan (RAT) tool. […]
According to ethical hacking specialists, multinational private security firm Prosegur was the victim of a massive ransomware attack that forced the shutdown of operations on its telecommunications platform. The company, based in Spain, acknowledged the incident through a statement published around noon yesterday (local time). As a security measure, the company decided to restrict communications […]
Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a large amount of monitoring information through a curses or Web based interface. The information dynamically adapts depending on the size of the user interface.It can also work in client/server mode. Remote monitoring could be done via terminal, Web interface or API (XML-RPC and RESTful). […]
Two residents of Melbourne, Australia, admitted they had used the dark web and the postal system to import drugs into Australia for distribution. The duo ran the drug trafficking operation from a two-bedroom apartment in Mernda, Melbourne. Steen McBeth and Jackson Li both 28 years old were arrested on October 27, 2017, following months of […]
Ransomware remains one of the main cybersecurity threats for any individual or company. Vulnerability testing specialists report a serious ransomware infection that has crippled all computer operations in Nunavut, a remote Canadian territory. In a statement, the local government said, “All government services that depend on access to digital resources have been affected by a […]
Ethical hacking specialists report a serious ransomware incident that has infected internal networks at TrialWorks, a platform that provides a legal case management software service. During the incident, more than 10% of the platform’s users were unable to access their accounts and files. The incident would have occurred during the first two weeks of October, […]
Big cities have always been one of the hackers’ favorite targets. This time, a group of threat actors managed to compromise the computer networks of Johannesburg, South Africa’s commercial capital, trying to get a huge ransom. According to experts in web application security, as a security measure the city government decided to suspend the operations […]
Information security specialists reported a serious ransomware infection at automation company Pilz, based in Germany. For more than a week, the company’s operations have been disrupted due to infection with the dangerous encryption malware variant known as BitPaymer. On its website, the company released a statement that says: “Pilz has been the victim of a […]
ESET researchers describe recent activity of the infamous espionage group, the Dukes, including three new malware families
PatrOwl is an advanced platform for orchestrating Security Operations like Penetration testing, Vulnerability Assessment, Code review, Compliance checks, Cyber-Threat Intelligence / Hunting and SOC & DFIR Operations. PatrowlManager is the Front-end application for managing the assets, reviewing risks on real-time, orchestrating the operations (scans, searches, API calls, …), aggregating the results, relaying alerts on third […]
Members of the aviation industry are concerned about a potential security risk for the pilots and crew of some aircraft. “Today any system is exploitable, aviation is not safe from malicious hackers,” says Mark Lepak, vulnerability testing specialist. The problem is related to the Controller Area Network system (commonly known as CAN bus). This cable […]