The criminal market in online profiles
One of the earliest memes describing the internet posited that on the web, no one knows you’re a dog. The meme highlighted the often anonymous nature of the internet...
Cyber Criminals Exploit Accellion FTA for Data Theft and Extortion
Starting in mid-December 2020, malicious actors that Mandiant tracks as UNC2546 exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Accellion’s legacy File Transfer Appliance (FTA) to install a newly discovered web shell...
Cybercrime Groups More Prolific, Focus on Healthcare in 2020
Almost four of every five attacks attributed in 2020 were conducted by cybercriminal groups, a significant jump from 2019, with attacks on healthcare or using the pandemic rising fast.While...
Chinese-Affiliated APT31 Cloned & Used NSA Hacking Tool
APT31 cloned and reused a Windows-based hacking tool for years before Microsoft patched the vulnerability, researchers report.APT31, an attack group affiliated with China, copied and used a National Security...
EU looks to drones, space communication to get ahead in tech race
The European Commission on Monday announced three flagship projects – in drone technologies, space communication and space traffic management – aimed at giving the 27-country bloc a competitive edge...
Chinese spyware code was copied from America’s NSA: researchers
Chinese spies used code first developed by the U.S. National Security Agency to support their hacking operations, Israeli researchers said on Monday, another indication of how malicious software developed...
Microsoft: SolarWinds Attackers Downloaded Azure, Exchange Code
However, internal products and systems were not leveraged to attack others during the massive supply-chain incident, the tech giant said upon completion of its Solorigate investigation.
Threat actors downloaded some...
Accellion FTA Zero-Day Attacks Show Ties to Clop Ransomware, FIN11
The threat actors stole data and used Clop’s leaks site to demand money in an extortion scheme, though no ransomware was deployed.
Researchers have identified a set of threat actors...
Who’s hacking your smart home?
The market for smart home devices is tipped to explode over the next few years, but many consumers remain woefully ignorant of the threats such tech can incur.It might...
Brave Browser Leaked DNS Queries for Onion Services
Brave, a browser that allows users to access onion services, had a bug that sent queries for onion addresses to public DNS resolvers.Brave is a browser that advertises itself...
