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Researchers discovered a previously undetected multi-platform malware called ACbackdoor that has both Linux and Windows Variant to infect the respective users and steal sensitive information. Dubbed ACbackdoor Linux variant has a completely no detection rate while the Windows variant has a higher detection rate than the Linux variant. Researchers believe that the ACbackdoor variant is […]
Researchers discovered a new malware campaign that drops two different Remote Access Trojan(RAT) on targeted Windows systems and steal sensitive information from popular browsers such as Chrome and Firefox. The samples that uncovered by Fortinet researchers drop the RevengeRAT and WSHRAT malware and it has various obfuscation functionalities that use the various stage to maintain […]
A new threat has caught the attention of the cybersecurity community in Los Angeles, California. According to the district attorney office, some public USB charging points contain dangerous malware that could infect users’ devices. The alert, published directly by the Prosecutor’s Office, refers to reports on a technique known as “juice-jacking”, in which a threat […]
Researchers detect a wave of malware campaigns from a new hacking group named TA2101 that targeting various organizations in German and Italy to deploy the backdoor malware in their network. Threat actors from this new hacking group using legitimate and licensed penetration testing tools and backdoor framework such as Cobalt Strike and Metasploit to perform […]
Researchers uncovered a new wave of a targeted cyberattack against the organizations in the Middle East, the U.S., and Asia using an obfuscated Malware with dozen live Command and Control (C&C) botnet servers. A Well-known threat group is known as APT33 behind the attack, and the group has a record of aggressively attack the oil aviation, governments, […]
Hackers are going crazy with malware campaigns of ransomware, screen lockers, remote access trojan that use political figures to attract victims, according to Cisco Talos. While the US President Donald Trump is the popular demand, security researchers say that Hillary Clinton and Russian President Vladimir Putin are also being used as a decoy. Despite political […]
Researchers discovered a new PureLocker Ransomware that capable of encrypting files in Windows, Linux, and macOS. The ransomware used by threat actors to perform a targeted attack against production servers of the enterprise networks. Code reuse analysis against Purelocker reveals that the ransomware related to the “more_eggs”, a backdoor malware often used by Cobalt Gang, FIN6 […]
Researchers uncovered a new ransomware family named “Buran” ransomware that works as a Ransomware-as-a-Service(RaaS) model and actively selling in a well-known Russian forum. Ransomware authors advertising in well known Russian underground forums and the Buran Ransomware compatible with all versions of the Windows OS and Windows server. Unlike other RaaS based ransomware such as GandCrab that earned […]
According to reports from digital forensics experts, the dangerous hacker group known as Platinum has announced the release of Titanium, a new backdoor Trojan that includes advanced features to control an infected computer completely. The report, published by security firm Kaspersky Lab, mentions that this backdoor can hide from the sight of victims posing as […]
Researchers discovered a mass malware distribution campaign that utilizing the well-known political figures in the U.S. including President Donald Trump, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with a series of ransomware, screen lockers, RATs and other malicious applications. A variety of malicious applications uncovered with this campaign, and it was developed to infect the victims with […]
A new wave of malware attack strikes again from the Titanium APT group that infects windows with hidden backdoor by mimicking common legitimate software and fileless technique. Titanium APT is one of the technologically advanced hacking group, they are using the various sophisticated technique to attack the target, and their method of attack makes very […]
Platinum, the infamous Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group, has launched a new backdoor trojan named Titanium that has advanced capabilities of taking complete control over the target’s PC. As reported by the Kaspersky Lab researchers, Titanium is capable of hiding in plain sight by disguising itself as a DVD burner software, sound driver, or even […]
A serious incident has compromised the computer systems of a US school district. According to digital forensics specialists, a ransomware attack has infected about 30,000 computers belonging to the Las Cruces school district, New Mexico, US. The incident caused servers and Internet devices to shut down throughout the district. During a press conference, Superintendent Karen […]
Data breaches and hacks are now a common part of our day-to-day lives and unless you’re a cybersecurity professional or your personal data is at risk, you don’t really care if a new vulnerability has been exposed. As the Federal Trade Commission notes, over five hundred million users of the Marriott hotel chain had their […]
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 […]
Researchers found the existence of the new APT Framework named “DarkUniverse” using Tips from a script that used in the NSA breach in 2017 in which, shadow brokers published their well-known ‘Lost in Translation’ Hacking tools leak. “Lost in Translation” cyber-espionage campaign leaked some of the deadliest exploits such as DarkPulsar, Eternal Blue that cause […]
WordPress is probably the most popular content management system (CMS) today, so it’s no wonder it’s also the subject of multiple cybersecurity threats. According to cybersecurity experts, the most serious of these threats is a criminal campaign deployed by a group identified as WP-VCD, from which most hacking incidents against WordPress sites stem. A report […]
Malware delivery trends change every day. For the last few years, we have observed various hacker groups like ( APT12 to Turla ) uses various techniques to deliver malware on the system or network. One of the best technique hackers groups used is to write malicious code and obfuscate it and embed with Office documents […]
Security researchers spotted the first mass cyberattack campaign exploiting BlueKeep RDP Flaw to install a cryptocurrency miner on the vulnerable installations. Bluekeep(CVE-2019-0708) is a wormable critical RCE vulnerability in Remote desktop services that let hackers access the vulnerable machine without authentication. As vulnerability is wormable, it could rapidly compromise millions of machines in a short […]
A new malware dubbed “Messagetap” designed to monitor and record SMS traffic of certain phone numbers, IMSI numbers, and based on keywords for subsequent theft. The new malware was developed by the Chinese APT41 hacker group to deploy in the telecommunications network. The malware was discovered by FireEye during an investigation at a telecommunications network […]
Amongst the various reasons out there to buy an iPhone, one of them is definitely going to be clear after this article. In the latest, another malware named xHelper is on the rise of infecting Android based devices, a number staggering over 45,000. Symantec which happens to be one of the initial discoverers has reported […]