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Researchers discovered 22 malicious Android apps that uploaded in Google playstore with Sophisticated click fraud functionality affected around 2 million Android users. Some of the malicious apps are unnoticed for a month and year, some of the apps were uploaded in June 2018 and one of the malicious flashlight apps alone downloaded around 1 million […]
DanaBot Banking Trojan came out with new features which harvest email addresses from the victim’s mailbox and send out spam emails. This Trojan turned out to be the latest example for the malware which focused on stealing useful information rather than demanding ransom from victims. The campaign primarily focuses on corporate and public administration emails. DanaBot […]
A new ransomware strain spreading as a result of supply chain attack targeting Chinese users starting from December 1 and infected more than 100,000 computers. The ransomware not only encrypting the system files, but it is also capable of stealing login credentials of popular Chinese online services such as Taobao, Baidu Cloud, NetEase 163, Tencent […]
Researchers observed a new Powershell based backdoor via Microsoft office document that infects similar to MuddyWater threat actor hacking tools to steal victims sensitive data and share it via C&C server to the attacker. MuddyWater is a widely known cyber crime group and they active since 2017 and performs various PowerShell script attacks on private […]
Moscow’s first ever cable car system was forced to shut down within two hours after the launch. Cybercriminals hacked into the cable car system and infected with ransomware. The cyber attack forced all the passengers to leave the cable car and the police reported that the cable car will no longer work. An unknown person […]
A new study by PhishLabs nearly half of the phishing sites using SSL HTTPS connection and shows padlock which indicates a means of telling it as a legitimate site. The reason for the alarming rise is because still the internet user’s believe in the padlock “look for the lock” and believe the website is legitimate […]
Ransomware attack on East Ohio Regional Hospital and Ohio Valley Medical Center network caused a downtime and the emergency rooms are unable to take patients. According to Times Leader, the ransomware hits hospital systems on Friday, Nov. 23, evening and the hospitals were not able to accept the emergency squad patients. “At the moment, our […]
Malicious hackers launching a new phishing campaign that targets Spotify customers to hijacking the user’s account and steal the credentials. Spotify customers targeted via emails along with malicious links that redirect into a deceptive website which leads users to give away their credentials. Once users enter their credentials, username and password will be sent to […]
Cyber attacks handling and Data Recovery are the most stressful Operation in any of the organization and individual for both Personal and Enterprise computer. Sensitive data stealing and damaging the asset will be most the cyber crimes Primary Motivation. After the incidents, Data recovery is one of the tricky processes and we need to be […]
Recent research revealed that most of the ATM’s around the world are vulnerable to compromise and cash out from the ATM by attackers within 30 min. Cyber criminals are using various sophisticated methods including physical access and remote access by compromise the bank network in order to steal the money from ATM. Recent ATM based […]
Cybercriminals group behind the SamSam Ransomware continuously targeting various organizations network which is located in different countries in order to encrypt the sensitive data. This is one of the ransomware which is highly active in 2018 to break down the 67 different types of organization network across the world especially in the U.S. Mainly targeting […]
Trickbot Malware reemerging with new ticks and future to steal various sensitive information such as passwords, History, cookies from application & Browsers. New Trickbot arriving with new password grabber module that targets the Applications & browsers including Microsoft Outlook, Filezilla, WinSCP, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge. Cybercriminals continually adding new sophisticated […]
Outlaw Hacking group uses command injection vulnerability in IoT devices and Linux servers to distribute botnets. The threat actors compromised the FTP servers of Japanese institution and Bangladeshi government site. Security researchers from TrendMicro uncovered the hacking operation named “Outlaw”, the hacker group used compromised servers and linked to availability cluster to host an IRC […]
Emotet Malware re-emerging to perform mass email exfiltration with a new form of infection capabilities to steal sensitive Email data directly from victims Email Client. The US-Cert team already issued an alert for an advanced Emotet malware attack that targets governments, private and public sectors in the most destructive way to steal various sensitive information. […]
SamSam ransomware campaigns continue to launch attacks against various organizations sectors including Government, Healthcare and Industrial control sectors. Unlike other Ransomware, SamSam trying to exploiting the critical vulnerabilities in the target organization network instead of using wide spreading Spam approach to compromise the target that used by other ransomware families. The SamSam ransomware group behind […]
Cyber Criminals abusing Bing Search results to delivery dangerous Malware when users try to download Google Chrome via Bing from brand new Windows computer. Attackers deliver the malware using phishing site and it was appearing top of the result once user search as “Download Chrome” and it leads to land the phishing page that exactly […]
Researchers discovered a new malware that abusing two legitimate windows files and use it against compromised victims to steal sensitive information. One file wmic.exe is a command line utility and the other file certutil.exe is a program that manages certificates for Windows. These files are used for download the payload on the infected windows machine […]
Cyber criminals distributing new Android malware via Phishing email campaign that turns infected smartphones into hidden mobile proxies. This malicious app installing a fake voice-message app and turns it as a network proxies without users knowledge. This Malware named as TimpDoor that act as a backdoor with stealthy access to the home and corporate network […]
The federal government spends an upwards of $1 billion each year on unclassified cybersecurity research. This fuel a part of Homeland Security technology research and results in the development of new software programs that helps thwart new age cyberthreats. These are not top-secret research projects that are too sensitive to declassify. In fact, the government […]
While cyber attacks occur almost daily in the world, sometimes with catastrophic results, we do not hear about successful attempts of disrupting the world’s largest financial market. Are the systems that support the trading of currencies in the number of trillions of dollars every day impenetrable to hacks, or is the Forex market so secure, […]
An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor group known by several different names such as Tick, Redbaldknight and Bronze Butler carried out a number of cyber attacks targeting East Asia. The APT group used custom tools and compromised websites for C2 servers, the hacker group primarily targets South Korea and Japan. Security researchers from Cisco Talos […]