Microsoft Warns CrowdStrike of Hackers Targeting Azure Cloud Customers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
New evidence amidst the ongoing probe into the espionage campaign targeting SolarWinds has uncovered an unsuccessful attempt to compromise cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike and access the company's email.
The...
A Second Hacker Group May Have Also Breached SolarWinds, Microsoft Says
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
As the probe into the SolarWinds supply chain attack continues, new digital forensic evidence has brought to light that a separate threat actor may have been abusing...
Microsoft Says Its Systems Were Also Breached in Massive SolarWinds Hack
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The massive state-sponsored espionage campaign that compromised software maker SolarWinds also targeted Microsoft, as the unfolding investigation into the hacking spree reveals the incident may have been...
Software Supply-Chain Attack Hits Vietnam Government Certification Authority
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a new supply-chain attack targeting the Vietnam Government Certification Authority (VGCA) that compromised the agency's digital signature toolkit to install a backdoor on...
New Evidence Suggests SolarWinds’ Codebase Was Hacked to Inject Backdoor
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The investigation into how the attackers managed to compromise SolarWinds' internal network and poison the company's software updates is still underway, but we may be one step...
Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers via Wi-Fi Signals (Without Wi-Fi Hardware)
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A security researcher has demonstrated that sensitive data could be exfiltrated from air-gapped computers via a novel technique that leverages Wi-Fi signals as a covert channel—surprisingly, without...
Nearly 18,000 SolarWinds Customers Installed Backdoored Software
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
SolarWinds, the enterprise monitoring software provider which found itself at the epicenter of the most consequential supply chain attacks, said as many as 18,000 of its high-profile...
US Agencies and FireEye Were Hacked Using SolarWinds Software Backdoor
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
State-sponsored actors allegedly working for Russia have targeted the US Treasury, the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and other government agencies to monitor internal...
Mount Locker Ransomware Offering Double Extortion Scheme to Other Hackers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A relatively new ransomware strain behind a series of breaches on corporate networks has developed new capabilities that allow it to broaden the scope of its targeting...
Hackers-For-Hire Group Develops New ‘PowerPepper’ In-Memory Malware
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed details of a previously undiscovered in-memory Windows backdoor developed by a hacker-for-hire operation that can execute remotely malicious code and steal sensitive...
