Russian APT Steps Up Malicious Cyber Activity in Ukraine
A Russia-based advanced persistent threat group that has been active for almost a decade has stepped up malicious cyberattack activity in Ukraine recently in another example of how geopolitical tensions...
FBI Publishes Indicators of Compromise for LockBit 2.0 Ransomware
The FBI today issued a flash bulletin that details the specific indicators of compromise (IoCs) associated with LockBit 2.0, whose operators offer the ransomware variant via a ransomware-as-a-service model.LockBit 2.0...
Mac Malware-Dropping Adware Gets More Dangerous
The latest version of a Mac Trojan called UpdateAgent, aka WizardUpdate, provides fresh evidence of the growing effort that some threat actors are putting into targeting Apple technologies.The malware,...
China-Linked Group Attacked Taiwanese Financial Firms for 18 Months
The Chinese state-sponsored threat group known as Antlion has targeted at least six financial institutions in Taiwan over the past 18 months, installing a custom backdoor program on compromised...
An ALPHV (BlackCat) representative discusses the group’s plans for a ransomware ‘meta-universe’
Editor’s Note: Late last year, cybersecurity researchers began to notice a ransomware strain called ALPHV that stood out for being particularly sophisticated and coded in the Rust programming language—a...
Tens of Thousands of Websites Vulnerable to RCE Flaw in WordPress Plug-in
Potentially tens — and even hundreds — of thousands of websites powered by WordPress are vulnerable to attack via a remote code execution (RCE) bug in a widely used plug-in called...
Mandiant: 1 in 7 Ransomware Extortion Attacks Exposes OT Data
Ransomware gangs often up their game by extorting their victims on so-called shaming sites, where they dump the stolen information to pressure the victims to pony up and pay...
Aggressive BlackCat Ransomware on the Rise
BlackCat, the latest ransomware threat touted on underground forums, has quickly made inroads into the ransomware-as-a-service cybercriminal marketplace by offering 80% to 90% of ransoms to "affiliates" and aggressively...
Mandiant: One in 7 Ransomware Extortion Attacks Expose OT Data
Ransomware gangs often up their game by extorting their victims on so-called shaming sites, where they dump the stolen information to pressure the victims to pony up and pay...
More Security Flaws Found in Apple’s OS Technologies
Apple's software updates this week for multiple vulnerabilities in its macOS Monterey operating system, iOS, and iPadOS serve as the latest indication of security researchers' and threat actors' growing...
