Researchers discovered a new, modular banking trojan with ties to Cerberus and Alien that has the capability to become a much larger threat than it is now.
Researchers said a Jan. 27 attack that aired footage of opposition leaders calling for assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader was a clumsy and unsophisticated wiper attack.
Kraken has already spread like wildfire, but in the past few months, the malware’s author has been tinkering away, adding more infostealers and backdoors.
On Tuesday, institutions central to Ukraine’s military and economy were hit with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Impact was limited, but the ramifications are not.
Threat actors are infiltrating the increasingly popular collaboration app to attach malicious files to chat threads that drop system-hijacking malware.
Researchers have never before seen SquirrelWaffle attackers use typosquatting to keep sending spam once a targeted Exchange server has been patched for ProxyLogon/ProxyShell.
The ‘ModifiedElephant’ threat actors are technically unimpressive, but they’ve evaded detection for a decade, hacking human rights advocates’ systems with dusty old keyloggers and off-the-shelf RATs.
The Maze gang are purportedly never going back to ransomware and have destroyed all of their ransomware source code, said somebody claiming to be the developer.
Sonya Duffin, ransomware and data-protection expert at Veritas Technologies, shares three steps organizations can take today to reduce cyberattack fallout.
Attackers infiltrated the media giant’s network using BEC, while Microsoft moved to stop such attacks by blocking VBA macros in 5 Windows apps. Included: more ways to help stop BEC.
However, groups are rebranding and recalibrating their profiles and tactics to respond to law enforcement and the security community’s focus on stopping ransomware attacks.
