An interview with Ukrainian hacker ‘Herm1t’ on countering pro-Kremlin attacks
Editor’s Note: Andrey Baranovich, who is known online as “Herm1t,” spent much of the ’90s and ’00s chronicling the history of malware development on a site known in the...
An interview with initial access broker Wazawaka: ‘There is no such money anywhere as...
Editor’s Note: Last April, a ransomware group threatened to expose police informants and other sensitive information if the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department did not pay a demand.
The brazen attack...
Kaseya VSA Zero Day Exploit Explained
This article explains the pre-auth remote code execution exploit against Kaseya VSA Server that was used in the mass Revil ransomware attack on July 2nd, 2021. On July 5th, after...
Tracking One Year of Malicious Tor Exit Relay Activities (Part II)
Malicious Tor Exit Relays Using MITM Proxy Attacks on Tor Users
nusenu21 hours ago·19 min read
>25% of the Tor network’s exit capacity has been attacking Tor users
In August 2020 I...
Microsoft to Block Excel Add-ins to Stop Office Exploits
Microsoft plans to add a feature to Office Excel that will make it harder for cyberattackers to exploit the spreadsheet application's "add-ins" function to run malicious code on a...
‘DragonSpark’ Malware: East Asian Cyberattackers Create an OSS Frankenstein
We imagine that the world’s most successful hackers write their own dangerous code and invest heavily in the technologies they use to breach their targets. In recent months, however,...
Ransomware Facts, Trends & Statistics for 2020
By: Eric C
Being ever-evolving as an attack tool, even the simplest form of ransomware can cost significant time and money, but more severe attacks can deal a crippling blow...
Chinese government hackers attack Russian companies for the first time
The hacker group APT31, known for numerous attacks on government agencies in different countries, attacked Russian companies for the first time. According to Positive Technologies, in the first half...
Ransomware Payoffs Surge by 311% to Nearly $350 Million
Payments to ransomware gangs using cryptocurrency more than quadrupled in 2020, with less than 200 cryptocurrency wallets receiving 80% of funds.Ransomware payments using cryptocurrency surged 311% in 2020, nearing...
Phishing Campaign Targets 200M Microsoft 365 Accounts
A well-organized email spoofing campaign has been seen targeting financial services, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, and telecom.A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting 200 million Microsoft 365 users around the...
