US Sanctions Pegasus-maker NSO Group and 3 Others For Selling Spyware
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday added four companies, including Israel-based spyware companies NSO Group and Candiru, to a list of entities engaging in "malicious cyber activities."
The...
Researchers Uncover ‘Pink’ Botnet Malware That Infected Over 1.6 Million Devices
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Cybersecurity researchers disclosed details of what they say is the "largest botnet" observed in the wild in the last six years, infecting over 1.6 million devices primarily...
Russian TrickBot Gang Hacker Extradited to U.S. Charged with Cybercrime
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A Russian national, who was arrested in South Korea last month and extradited to the U.S. on October 20, appeared in a federal court in the state...
Latest Report Uncovers Supply Chain Attacks by North Korean Hackers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Lazarus Group, the advanced persistent threat (APT) group attributed to the North Korean government, has been observed waging two separate supply chain attack campaigns as a means...
Cyber Attack in Iran Reportedly Cripples Gas Stations Across the Country
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A cyber attack in Iran left petrol stations across the country crippled, disrupting fuel sales and defacing electronic billboards to display messages challenging the regime's ability to...
Hackers Exploited Popular BillQuick Billing Software to Deploy Ransomware
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Cybersecurity researchers on Friday disclosed a now-patched critical vulnerability in multiple versions of a time and billing system called BillQuick that's being actively exploited by threat actors...
‘Lone Wolf’ Hacker Group Targeting Afghanistan and India with Commodity RATs
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A new malware campaign targeting Afghanistan and India is exploiting a now-patched, 20-year-old flaw affecting Microsoft Office to deploy an array of commodity remote access trojans (RATs)...
Two Eastern Europeans Sentenced for Providing Bulletproof Hosting to Cyber Criminals
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Two Eastern European nationals have been sentenced in the U.S. for offering "bulletproof hosting" services to cybercriminals, who used the technical infrastructure to distribute malware and attack...
LightBasin Hackers Breach at Least 13 Telecom Service Providers Since 2019
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A highly sophisticated adversary named LightBasin has been identified as behind a string of attacks targeting the telecom sector with the goal of collecting "highly specific information"...
Google: We’re Tracking 270 State-Sponsored Hacker Groups From Over 50 Countries
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on Thursday said it's tracking more than 270 government-backed threat actors from more than 50 countries, adding it has approximately sent 50,000...
