By Dylan DuncanCofense Intelligence is tracking an advanced campaign that is successfully reaching intended targets in the Oil and Gas industry. The campaign delivers an uncommon, but advanced, Malware-as-a-Service information stealer, the Rhadamanthys Stealer. This new and advanced phishing campaig…
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QR code attacks are particularly dangerous because they move the attack vector off a protected computer and onto the target’s personal mobile device, which usually has fewer security protections in place and ultimately has the sensitive information that attackers are after….
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Executive Summary Unit 42 Threat Intelligence analysts have noticed an escalation in Medusa ransomware activities and a shift in tactics toward extortion, characterized by the introduction in early 2023 of their dedicated leak site called the Medusa Blog. Medusa threat actors use this site to disclo…
Attacks on a critical infrastructure target in South Africa, supply-chain attack on Linux machines, Telegram doppelganger used to target people in China.
In early September 2022, we discovered several new malware samples belonging to the MATA cluster. The campaign had been launched in mid-August 2022 and targeted over a dozen corporations in Eastern Europe from the oil and gas sector and defense industry.
More than a week after it suffered a crippling ransomware attack, the hotel giant MGM is struggling to recover. The attack, linked to the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group known as ALPHV, or BlackCat, caused slot machines and ATMs in MGM’s Las Vegas hotels to go dark and forced hotel staff to rev…
Security teams are well aware of the growing problem of software supply chain attacks, but it’s essential that organizations stay abreast of the various threats posed to software supply chains. One of the pain points that organizations need to learn more about and defend against is malicious campaig…
After nearly a year of being disrupted by Google, the Glupteba malware botnet has again become active, infecting devices worldwide. As a result of Google’s efforts, the blockchain-enabled botnet could be seriously disrupted in December 2021 by securing court orders for control of its infrastructure…
Kaspersky Lab experts discovered a targeted cyber espionage campaign, where attackers infect computers with malware that collects all recent documents on the victim’s device, archives them and passes them back to them.The UEFI program is loaded before the operating system and controls all proc…
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing many people around the world to work remotely. This has significantly increased the popularity of video conferencing services such as Zoom. Attackers took advantage of this and began to use fake Zoom domains to spread malware and gain access to other people’s vide…
Cybercriminals used to generate cryptocurrencies not only computers of ordinary Internet users but also the resources of large companies, as well as the websites of government agencies of the Russian Federation. This was announced at a press conference on Monday by Nikolai Murashov, the Deputy Direc…
In September, Russian companies faced the problem of malicious software disguised as accounting documents. The launch of the virus led to leaks of personal data of users and the connection their computers to the botnet. Check Point company claims that 15.3% of Russian Internet users received such le…
Cases of malicious e-mails to Russian companies have become more frequent. Attackers write on behalf of Banks, large air operators, car dealers and mass media. They offer cooperation to companies and advise to open the file in the attachment, where there are details about a good deal. If the user do…
Specialists of the Russian company Dr Web found malicious software that threatens the MacOS operating system, which allows attackers to download and execute any Python code on the user’s device. In addition, sites distributing this malware also infected Windows users with a dangerous spyware Trojan….