FIN7’s Liquor Lure Compromises Law Firm with Backdoor
Using a lure relating to a lawsuit against the owner of Jack Daniels whiskey, the cybergang launched a campaign that may be bent on ransomware deployment.
Financial cybercrime gang FIN7...
Indictments, Attribution Unlikely to Deter Chinese Hacking, Researchers Say
Researchers are skeptical that much will come from calling out China for the Microsoft Exchange attacks and APT40 activity, but the move marks an important foreign-policy change.
The federal government...
NPM Package Steals Passwords via Chrome’s Account-Recovery Tool
In another vast software supply-chain attack, the password-stealer is filching credentials from Chrome on Windows systems via ChromePass.
A credentials-stealing code bomb that uses legitimate password-recovery tools in Google’s Chrome...
This Chat is Being Recorded: Egregor Ransomware Negotiations Uncovered
July 21, 2021 | By Chris Caridi co-authored by Allison Wikoff | 8 min read
Ransomware attacks are topping the charts as the most common attack type to target organizations with a constant drumbeat of attacks impacting industries...
Law Firm to the Fortune 500 Breached with Ransomware
Deep-pocketed clients’ customers & suppliers could be in the attacker’s net, with potential PII exposure from an A-list clientele such as Apple, Boeing and IBM.
Campbell Conroy & O’Neil, P.C....
Researchers: NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Should Spark Bans, Apple Accountability
Our roundtable of experts weighs in on implications for Apple and lawmakers in the wake of the bombshell report showing widespread surveillance of dissidents, journalists and others.
News of a...
Leaked NSO Group Data Hints at Widespread Pegasus Spyware Infections
The secretive Israeli firm was allegedly storing 50,000+ mobile phone numbers for activists, journalists, business executives and politicians — possible targets of iPhone and Android hacking.
Israeli-based NSO Group is...
Protecting Phones From Pegasus-Like Spyware Attacks
Podcast: Can a new SIM card and prepaid service from an MVNO help? Former spyware insider, current mobile white hat hacker Adam Weinberg on how to block spyware attacks.
Pegasus...
The Evolving Role of the CISO
Curtis Simpson, CISO at Armis, discusses the top qualities that all CISOs need to possess to excel.
Digital technologies have infused every aspect of a business, especially with the shutdown...
Linux Variant of HelloKitty Ransomware Targets VMware ESXi Servers
HelloKitty joins the growing list of ransomware bigwigs going after the juicy target of VMware ESXi, where one hit gets scads of VMs.
For the first time, researchers have publicly...
