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Targeted ransomware attacks on banking and finance, government, healthcare, and critical infrastructure are on the rise, with the latest victim being the state government of Louisiana. The state government of Louisiana was hit by a large-scale coordinated ransomware attack yesterday, which forced the state to take several state agency servers offline, including government websites, email […]
A new JavaScript skimmer dubbed Pipka attacks eCommerce websites to steal the payment data entered into online payment forms of the websites. It extracts details such as payment account number, expiration date, CVV, and cardholder name and address, from the checkout pages. The Pipka found to be installed on more than sixteen eCommerce websites, the […]
Security researchers have tracked down activities of a new group of financially-motivated hackers that are targeting several businesses and organizations in Germany, Italy, and the United States in an attempt to infect them with backdoor, banking Trojan, or ransomware malware. Though the new malware campaigns are not customized for each organization, the threat actors appear […]
A spokesperson from the Labour Party in the United Kingdom has confirmed that the party’s digital platforms suffered a massive DDoS attack due to which its security systems were blocked. The attack occurred only a few weeks before the General Elections due on December 12, 2019, however, it is also claimed that none of the […]
Recently, there has been a surge in ransomware attacks as we know it, and web hosting service providers are the new eye candy of cybercriminals. Now, the leading web hosting service provider for ASP.net called SmarterASP.NET, is the latest victim of a major ransomware attack. The company has already released a statement confirming the news […]
Spain’s largest radio station Cadena SER and IT service provider Everis suffered ransomware attacks which crippled its service. While the protests in Catalonia may be or may not be a bad thing depending on who you ask, everyone in Spain would agree that what happened today is nothing short of unpleasant. Earlier this week, two […]
Everis, one of the largest IT consulting companies in Spain, suffered a targeted ransomware attack on Monday, forcing the company to shut down all its computer systems until the issue gets resolved completely. Ransomware is a computer virus that encrypts files on an infected system until a ransom is paid. According to several local media, […]
Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new cyberattack that is believed to be the very first but an amateur attempt to weaponize the infamous BlueKeep RDP vulnerability in the wild to mass compromise vulnerable systems for cryptocurrency mining. In May this year, Microsoft released a patch for a highly-critical remote code execution flaw, dubbed BlueKeep, in its Windows […]
The growing variety and sophistication of cybersecurity threats have outpaced the development of conventional security tools. Apart from commoditized and automated hacking methods such as viruses, file-based malware, and botnets, advanced persistent threats (APTs) have also risen to become threats to anyone’s security. APTs are persistent malicious actors that attempt to gain access to infrastructure […]
Finally, for the very first time, an encrypted messaging service provider is taking legal action against a private entity that has carried out malicious attacks against its users. Facebook filed a lawsuit against Israeli mobile surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, alleging that the company was actively involved in hacking users of its end-to-end encrypted […]
As Japan gears up for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo for the next year, the country needs to brace itself for sophisticated cyberattacks, especially from state-sponsored hackers. Microsoft has issued a short notice, warning about a new wave of highly targeted cyberattacks by a group of Russian state-sponsored hackers attempting to hack over […]
Italian bank giant UniCredit disclosed that 3 million Italian clients’ data was exposed in the 2015 data breach. The bank confirms the threat the actors accessed a file containing the customer records. The bank also confirms that with the compromised details the attacker could not able to gain access to the customer accounts or perform […]
Under “usual circumstances,” AWS makes headlines for exposing databases of companies using its services. A few days ago (Oct 22, 2019), the world’s large cloud services provider – Amazon Web Services (AWS) – was hit by a series of DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) resulting in portions of it going offline for several hours. […]
Winnti hacker group uses a new malware dubbed skip-2.0 to attack Microsoft SQL Servers and to gain persistence access. Winnti group believed to be operating from China and the group active at least from 2012 and responsible for high-profile supply-chain against Gaming studios and Software companies. ESET Security researchers discovered a new malware strain skip.2-0 […]
Cyberattacks rapidly growing every day, it emerges as one of the biggest challenges for businesses. Network intruders and ransomware developer groups develop an alliance with each other to maximize the revenue with the ransomware market. They partnership together to attack the most secure and lucrative targets. AdvIntel report shows how the underground community developing multidimensional […]
Researchers discovered a new track of ATM jackpotting attack through infamous ATM malware called “Cutlet Maker” which is now rapidly growing up around the world. Cutlet Maker malware specially designed to spit the cash from an ATM machine without using a debit card and the malware initially attack ATM ‘s in Germany in 2017. In […]
A decade-old botnet malware that currently controls over 450,000 computers worldwide has recently shifted its operations from infecting machines with ransomware or crypto miners to abusing them for sending out sextortion emails to millions of innocent people. Extortion by email is growing significantly, with a large number of users recently complaining about receiving sextortion emails […]
“There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story is a confession, then so is mine.” – Captain Benjamin L. Willard, Apocalypse Now. 16:05, Atrium Bar President Hotel, London – Having spent a quarter of a century in information technology and thirteen years in one uniform or another […]
Another day, another revelation of a critical unpatched zero-day vulnerability, this time in the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, Android. What’s more? The Android zero-day vulnerability has also been found to be exploited in the wild by the Israeli surveillance vendor NSO Group—infamous for selling zero-day exploits to governments—or one of its customers, […]
Researchers linked multiple Cyber-espionage campaigns across Asia to the threat actor group PKPLUG. The group uses its PlugX malware and the number of additional payloads in the campaign. The group primarily targets Southeast Asia regions such as particularly Myanmar, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Indonesia and other parts of Asia such as Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia. Based […]
Phishing is still one of the widely used strategies by cybercriminals and espionage groups to gain an initial foothold on the targeted systems. Though hacking someone with phishing attacks was easy a decade ago, the evolution of threat detection technologies and cyber awareness among people has slowed down the success of phishing and social engineering […]