China’s APT Groups May Be Looking to Cash In
Two campaigns have resulted in encrypted drives and ransom notes, suggesting that some China-linked nation-state advanced persistent threat groups have added financial gain as a motive, researchers say.A China-linked...
Dark Web Forum Activity Surged 44% in Early COVID Months
Researchers analyzed the activity of five popular English- and Russian-speaking Dark Web forums and discovered exponential membership growth.Dark Web forum activity grew 44% during the spring of 2020 compared...
Bitcoin emergence as ‘digital gold’ could lift price to $146,000, says JPM
Digital currency bitcoin has emerged as a rival to gold and could trade as high as $146,000 if it becomes established as a safe-haven asset, investment bank JPMorgan (JPM)...
A COVID-19 shot for $150? Online scams surge as slow vaccine rollout frustrates
As millions of people await their turn to get a COVID-19 vaccine that could be months away, scammers online, in emails and on messaging apps are luring victims with...
Major Gaming Companies Hit with Ransomware Linked to APT27
Researchers say a recent attack targeting videogaming developers has ‘strong links’ to the infamous APT27 threat group.
A recent slew of related ransomware attacks on top videogame companies has been...
Thousands infected by trojan that targets cryptocurrency users on Windows, Mac and Linux
By:
Steve Zurier
Researchers have found a new remote access trojan (RAT) written from scratch in Golang that...
RCE ‘Bug’ Found and Disputed in Popular PHP Scripting Framework
Impacted are PHP-based websites running a vulnerable version of the web-app creation tool Zend Framework and some Laminas Project releases.
Versions of the popular developer tool Zend Framework and its...
Cyberattacks on Healthcare Spike 45% Since November
The relentless rise in COVID-19 cases is battering already frayed healthcare systems — and ransomware criminals are using the opportunity to strike.
As COVID-19 ravages international healthcare systems, cybercriminals have...
Healthcare Industry Witnessed 45% Spike in Cyber Attacks Since Nov 20
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Cyberattacks targeting healthcare organizations have spiked by 45% since November 2020 as COVID-19 cases continue to increase globally.
According to a new report published by Check Point Research...
After refusing to pay ransom, US-based auto parts distributor has sensitive data leaked by...
A 3GB archive that purportedly belongs to NameSouth, a US-based auto parts shop, has been publicly leaked by the NetWalker ransomware group.NameSouth seems to be the latest victim of...
