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...
Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Got Hacked; Red-Team Pentest Tools Stolen
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity firms in the world, said on Tuesday it became a victim of a state-sponsored attack by a "highly sophisticated threat actor"...
Animal Jam data breach: 100,000 de-hashed user records leaked, 900,000 more sold on hacker...
A database containing 900,000 user records from the free-to-play game Animal Jam is being sold on hacker forums, with another 100,000 records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample.Animal Jam is...
Phishing Campaign Targets 200M Microsoft 365 Accounts
A well-organized email spoofing campaign has been seen targeting financial services, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, and telecom.A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting 200 million Microsoft 365 users around the...
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...
Hackers Targeting Companies Involved in Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A global spear-phishing campaign has been targeting organizations associated with the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines since September 2020, according to new research.
Attributing the operation to a nation-state...
TrickBot Malware Gets UEFI/BIOS Bootkit Feature to Remain Undetected
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
TrickBot, one of the most notorious and adaptable malware botnets in the world, is expanding its toolset to set its sights on firmware vulnerabilities to potentially deploy...
Experts Uncover ‘Crutch’ Russian Malware Used in APT Attacks for 5 Years
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Cybersecurity researchers today took the wraps off a previously undocumented backdoor and document stealer that has been deployed against specific targets from 2015 to early 2020.
Codenamed "Crutch"...
8.5+ million user records from royalty-free image website leaked on Russian hacker forum
123RF.com is “actively notifying the necessary authorities and 123RF.com members to work with them to remedy the situation” and “tightening the security policies to include tighter passwords and IP...
