Scammer Infects His Own Machine With Spyware, Reveals True Identity
In what can only be described as a case of karmic irony, a Nigerian scammer responsible for stealing more than 800,000 credentials from some 28,000 victims over the past...
Costa Rica Declares State of Emergency Under Sustained Conti Cyberattacks
Newly elected Costa Rican president Rodrigo Chaves has declared a state of national cybersecurity emergency after weeks of fallout from a Conti ransomware attack that has crippled the country's government and...
5-Buck DCRat Malware Foretells a Worrying Cyber Future
A bargain-basement, $5 price tag on a 3-year-old remote access Trojan (RAT) has concerned some security researchers, who see the move as signs of a possible race to the...
US Pledges to Help Ukraine Keep the Internet and Lights On
The US State Department today announced a coordinated effort between several government agencies to provide Ukraine with the cybersecurity technical expertise, resources, and threat intelligence necessary to protect the electrical...
Novel Nerbian RAT Lurks Behind Faked COVID Safety Emails
Phishing emails purporting to contain COVID-19 safety information from the World Health Organization (WHO) are instead phishing lures intended to spread a novel remote-access Trojan (RAT) called Nerbian.
A team...
Cyber-Espionage Attack Drops Post-Exploit Malware Framework on Microsoft Exchange Servers
A likely China-based, state-sponsored threat actor has been deploying a sophisticated post-exploitation malware framework on Microsoft Exchange servers at organizations in the technology, academic, and government sectors across multiple...
Microsoft Simplifies Security Patching Process for Exchange Server
In a move to ease the process of applying security updates to Exchange Server and help ensure the servers get patched, Microsoft has kicked off new security update packaging for the software.
Previously,...
5 Years That Altered the Ransomware Landscape
The ransomware landscape has evolved considerably since WannaCry dramatically drove home the potential severity of the threat five years ago on May 12. What has changed somewhat less over...
Transforming SQL Queries Bypasses WAF Security
BLACK HAT ASIA 2022 — A team of university researchers used basic machine learning to identify patterns that common Web application firewalls (WAFs) fail to detect as malicious, but...
Black Hat Asia: Democracy’s Survival Depends on Taming Technology
BLACK HAT ASIA 2022 – Technology is an existential threat to global democracy — requiring a shift to a transnationally regulated, culturally sensitive tech ecosystem that provides space for democracies to flourish.
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