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...
A New Wiper Malware Was Behind Recent Cyberattack On Iranian Train System
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A cyber attack that derailed websites of Iran's transport ministry and its national railway system earlier this month, causing widespread disruptions in train services, was the result...
Top 30 Critical Security Vulnerabilities Most Exploited by Hackers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Intelligence agencies in Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. issued a joint advisory on Wednesday detailing the most exploited vulnerabilities in 2020 and 2021, once again demonstrating...
Hackers Posed as Aerobics Instructors for Years to Target Aerospace Employees
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
An Iranian cyberespionage group masqueraded as an aerobics instructor on Facebook in an attempt to infect the machine of an employee of an aerospace defense contractor with...
Chinese Hackers Implant PlugX Variant on Compromised MS Exchange Servers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A Chinese cyberespionage group known for targeting Southeast Asia leveraged flaws in the Microsoft Exchange Server that came to light earlier this March to deploy a previously...
Malware Makers Using ‘Exotic’ Programming Languages
Sprechen Sie Rust? Polyglot malware authors are increasingly using obscure programming languages to evade detection.
Malware authors are increasingly using rarely spotted programming languages such as Go, Rust, Nim...
