REvil Ransomware Gang Arrests Trigger Uncertainty, Concern in Cybercrime Forums
Law enforcement action typically does little to deter cybercriminal activity. But last week's arrests in Russia of several members of the notorious REvil ransomware group, as well as the...
Researchers Discover Dangerous Firmware-Level Rootkit
Firmware-based rootkits, though still relatively rare, are gaining in popularity because they give threat actors a way to maintain a persistent, hard-to-detect, and difficult-to-eradicate presence on a target network.Kaspersky...
Nigerian Police Arrest 11 Individuals in BEC Crackdown
Police in Nigeria, with the help of Interpol, have arrested 11 individuals in the country for their alleged involvement in business email compromise (BEC) scams associated with more than...
FireEye & McAfee Enterprise Renamed as Trellix
The company created from the merger of security firms McAfee Enterprise and FireEye will be called Trellix, with an aim to become a force in the field of extended...
When Patching Security Flaws, Smarter Trumps Faster
Organizations that use the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to prioritize the patching of software security vulnerabilities reduce their potential exploitability compared with randomly fixing issues, but not by...
A top Ukrainian security official on defending the nation against cyber attacks
Editor’s Note: In November 2020, The Record published an interview between Recorded Future expert threat intelligence analyst Dmitry Smilyanets and Serhii Demediuk, the Deputy Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security...
Take ‘Urgent’ Steps to Secure Systems From Damaging Attacks, CISA Says
The US Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today published a bulletin for senior leaders of US organizations to "immediately implement" a list of specific...
Researchers Explore Hacking VirusTotal to Find Stolen Credentials
Security researchers have found a method to collect vast amounts of stolen user credentials by executing searches on VirusTotal, the online service used to analyze suspicious files and URLs.
With...
Microsoft Details Recent Damaging Malware Attacks on Ukrainian Organizations
Multiple organizations in Ukraine were hit last week in a destructive, likely nation-state-backed malware operation designed to render targeted systems completely inoperable.
The two-stage malware looks like ransomware on the...
Name That Toon: Nowhere to Hide
Who says you can't teach an old snowman new tricks? Now we need the perfect caption for the above cartoon. And for that we turn to you, Dark Reading...
