Category: Hacking

December 7, 2022

The Canadian branch of global non-governmental human rights organization Amnesty International suffered a recent cyberattack that was apparently orchestrated by a Chinese state-sponsored attacker. In a press release(opens in new tab), Amnesty International Canada said it spotted “suspicious activity” on […]

November 29, 2022

Today, Google announced a lawsuit against scams targeting small businesses. Scammers have been impersonating Google and charging a fee to set up a Business Profile — a free tool offered by Google that enables businesses to show up in search […]

November 22, 2022

A particularly nasty crypto-stealing malware has gotten a facelift to make it even more dangerous, researchers have claimed. Cybersecurity experts from Avast have warned the ViperSoftX Windows malware, a JavaScript-based RAT that’s been around for more than two years, has […]

November 18, 2022

A Russian-speaking cybercrime group was observed combining powerful infostealing malware with typosquatted domains to steal(opens in new tab) login data for banking sites. The campaign was spotted by cybersecurity experts Hold Security, and reported on by KrebsOnSecurity. According to the […]

November 14, 2022

The price of cryptocurrencies might be surprisingly low these days, but cybercriminals don’t seem to be giving up on the novel technology. In fact, the number of malicious cryptocurrency miners skyrocketed in the third quarter of the year. This is […]

November 8, 2022

A new data-wiping malware has been detected, infecting more and more endpoints with each passing day – but what’s most curious is that it poses as ransomware(opens in new tab). The malware is called Azov Ransomware, and when run on […]

November 8, 2022

The data comes from Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2022 (via ZDNet), which analyzed trillions of signals from the Redmond company’s global ecosystem of products and services to reveal the scale of cyberthreats worldwide. The number of hacking incidents has jumped […]

November 8, 2022

The Amadey malware is being used to deploy LockBit 3.0 ransomware on compromised systems, researchers have warned. “Amadey bot, the malware that is used to install LockBit, is being distributed through two methods: one using a malicious Word document file, […]

November 4, 2022

Several African banks, as well as a number of financial institutions and telecommunications operators in Asia and Latin America, have been victims of a highly sophisticated, well-planned heist campaign, which saw the crooks walk away with at least $30 million. […]

November 4, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers have spotted crooks impersonating major law firm powerhouses to try and trick people into making payments for bogus work. Experts from Abnormal Security uncovered a brand new Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack, conducted by a threat actor dubbed […]

November 2, 2022

Banks in the United States processed almost $1.2 billion in ransomware(opens in new tab) payments last year, a new report has claimed. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) drew on data from the ransomware-related Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) filings throughout […]

November 1, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers from Symantec have discovered a brand new dropper that lurks for months before deploying backdoors, malware(opens in new tab), and other malicious tools. In a blog post(opens in new tab), the company outlined the dropper, known as Geppei, […]

October 28, 2022

Ransomware attacks against businesses in the manufacturing and production industries are getting more complex, while the payment demands rise. A report from cybersecurity(opens in new tab) experts Sophos claims this sector has had the highest average ransom payment of all […]

October 27, 2022

A new cryptojacking campaign has been uncovered targeting vulnerable Docker and Kubernetes infrastructures as part of opportunistic attacks designed to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike dubbed the activity Kiss-a-dog, with its command-and-control infrastructure overlapping with those associated with other […]

October 27, 2022

When thinking about verticals, one may not instantly think of cyber-criminality. Yet, every move made by governments, clients, and private contractors screams toward normalizing those menaces as a new vertical. Ransomware has every trait of the classical economical vertical. A […]

October 25, 2022

Two point-of-sale (PoS) malware variants have been put to use by a threat actor to steal information related to more than 167,000 credit cards from payment terminals. According to Singapore-headquartered cybersecurity company Group-IB, the stolen data dumps could net the […]

October 17, 2022

Scammers may never need to use deepfakes at scale because there are other, more efficient methods to trick people into giving away personal information and payment data, according to John Shier, senior security adviser for cybersecurity firm Sophos. Speaking to […]

October 6, 2022

There is a new malware making rounds, that targets Microsoft SQL servers, and is capable of running programs, snooping in on data, brute-forcing its way into other SQL servers, and dozens of other dangerous things. The malware(opens in new tab), […]

October 6, 2022

Threat actors have found a way to disable antivirus(opens in new tab) solutions and other endpoint(opens in new tab) protection tools using an increasingly popular method. Cybersecurity researchers from Sophos recently detailed how the method, known as called Bring Your […]

October 3, 2022

A quarter of IT professionals either don’t know or don’t think Microsoft 365 data can be impacted by a ransomware attack, research from Hornetsecurity has claimed. In addition, 40% of IT professionals that use Microsoft 365 in their organization admitted […]