ShadowPad Malware is Becoming a Favorite Choice of Chinese Espionage Groups
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
ShadowPad, an infamous Windows backdoor that allows attackers to download further malicious modules or steal data, has been put to use by five different Chinese threat clusters...
Cloudflare mitigated one of the largest DDoS attack involving 17.2 million rps
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date.
The attack,...
Attackers Can Weaponize Firewalls and Middleboxes for Amplified DDoS Attacks
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Weaknesses in the implementation of TCP protocol in middleboxes and censorship infrastructure could be weaponized as a vector to stage reflected denial of service (DoS) amplification attacks,...
Hackers Spotted Using Morse Code in Phishing Attacks to Evade Detection
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Microsoft has disclosed details of an evasive year-long social engineering campaign wherein the operators kept changing their obfuscation and encryption mechanisms every 37 days on average, including...
IT Giant Accenture Hit by LockBit Ransomware; Hackers Threaten to Leak Data
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Global IT consultancy giant Accenture has become the latest company to be hit by the LockBit ransomware gang, according to a post made by the operators on...
Hackers Steal Over $600 Million Worth of Cryptocurrencies from Poly Network
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Hackers have siphoned $611 million worth of cryptocurrencies from a blockchain-based financial network in what's believed to be one of the largest heists targeting the digital asset...
Experts Believe Chinese Hackers Are Behind Several Attacks Targeting Israel
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A Chinese cyber espionage group has been linked to a string of intrusion activities targeting Israeli government institutions, IT providers, and telecommunications companies at least since 2019.
FireEye's...
Chinese government hackers attack Russian companies for the first time
The hacker group APT31, known for numerous attacks on government agencies in different countries, attacked Russian companies for the first time. According to Positive Technologies, in the first half...
Kaseya VSA Zero Day Exploit Explained
This article explains the pre-auth remote code execution exploit against Kaseya VSA Server that was used in the mass Revil ransomware attack on July 2nd, 2021. On July 5th, after...
Dutch Fishing Outlet Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of Customers
Hengelsport (otherwise known as Raven Fishing B.V.), with PII for hundreds of thousands of customers left potentially vulnerable to hackers.
Primarily located in the Netherlands, Raven is a store...
