Cybercriminals Targeting Law Firms with GootLoader and FakeUpdates Malware
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Mar 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Malware
Six different law firms were targeted in January and February 2023 as part of two disparate threat campaigns distributing GootLoader and FakeUpdates...
Platypus Finance creates compensation portal for users following $9.1M exploit
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Platypus Finance has created a portal that enables users to view how much the platform owes them following the recent $9.1 million exploit.On Feb. 16,...
Dutch Police Arrest 3 Hackers Involved in Massive Data Theft and Extortion Scheme
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Feb 27, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan
The Dutch police announced the arrest of three individuals in connection with a "large-scale" criminal operation involving data theft, extortion, and money laundering.
The suspects include...
LastPass Reveals Second Attack Resulting in Breach of Encrypted Password Vaults
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Feb 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananPassword Security / Data Breach
LastPass, which in December 2022 disclosed a severe data breach that allowed threat actors to access encrypted password vaults, said it...
CISA Issues Warning on Active Exploitation of ZK Java Web Framework Vulnerability
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Feb 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Cyber Attack
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity flaw affecting the ZK Framework to its Known Exploited...
New EX-22 Tool Empowers Hackers with Stealthy Ransomware Attacks on Enterprises
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Feb 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Malware
A new post-exploitation framework called EXFILTRATOR-22 (aka EX-22) has emerged in the wild with the goal of deploying ransomware within enterprise networks while...
MyAlgo users urged to withdraw, as cause of $9.2M hack remains unknown
A wallet provider for the Algorand (ALGO) network, MyAlgo, has warned its users to withdraw funds from any wallets created with a seed phrase amid an ongoing exploit that...
Lendhub protocol exploiters spotted shifting $3.85M into Tornado Cash
The suspected actors behind the $6 million exploit of decentralized finance lending protocol Lendhub have just sent more than half of their ill-gotten gains from January into sanctioned crypto...
$700,000 drained from BNB Chain-based DeFi protocol LaunchZone
$700,000 worth of funds has been drained from BNB Chain-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol LaunchZone, with the project alleging an attacker carried out an exploit.Details remain scarce after more...
New Threat Actor WIP26 Targeting Telecom Service Providers in the Middle East
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Feb 16, 2023Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Cyber Threat
Telecommunication service providers in the Middle East are being targeted by a previously undocumented threat actor as part of a suspected...
