Cybercriminals Abusing Legitimate Windows Programs
Cybercriminals Abuse Built-in Services to Target Windows
Cybercriminals are now abusing inbuilt legitimate services of Windows to perform fileless attacks. Researchers reveal they use spear-phishing emails to spread a zip...
The ransomware ‘industry’ is becoming more commercial and professional than ever
by Adi Gaskell
Recently my wife’s hospital trust in the UK received a rather aggressive sounding email demanding large sums of money or the sender would release large quantities of patient...
Emotet’s SkyRocketing Activities Big Threat for U.S. Agencies, CISA Warns
Emotet, the notorious banking trojan that was first seen in 2014 and became one of the most prominent global cyber threats in the past few months, is showing no indications...
New P2P Botnet Targeting IoT Devices
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a new botnet hijacking Internet-connected smart devices in the wild to perform nefarious tasks, mostly DDoS attacks, and illicit cryptocurrency...
Rare UEFI Malware Found in the wild Kaspersky says
By Mark Lechtik, Igor Kuznetsov, Yury Parshin
Part II. Technical details (PDF)
UEFI (or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) has become a prominent technology that is embedded within designated chips on modern day computer systems....
Hunting for exploits by looking for the author’s fingerprints
Graphology of an Exploit – Hunting for exploits by looking for the author’s fingerprints
Research by: Itay Cohen, Eyal Itkin
In the past months, our Vulnerability and Malware Research teams joined efforts...
Ransomware Attacks Slows Down AstraZeneca Coronavirus Clinical Trial
The ransomware attack at eResearchTechnology that provides software to manage clinical trials data forced researchers to switch to pen and paper, halting their progress at a crucial time
By Krishnendu Banerjee
As...
Russian operation masqueraded as right-wing news site to target U.S. voters
By Jack Stubbs
The Russian group accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has posed as an independent news outlet to target right-wing social media users ahead of this year’s...
Exploit for Firefox 68 on Android Local Area Network SSDP Screencast
Firefox for Android LAN-Based Intent Triggering
Exploit research and development by Chris Moberly (Twitter: @init_string)
Overview
The SSDP engine in Firefox for Android (68.11.0 and below) can be tricked into triggering Android...
Chinese APT SilentFade Defrauded Facebook Users of 4 Million
At the Virus Bulletin 2020 conference , the Facebook security team revealed one of the most challenging malware operations it has ever faced.
The expert report was dedicated to the Chinese hack group...
