Matthew Keys, a former Reuters journalist, who was sentenced to 2 years in prison for hacking attacks on California media is now charged with an attack on a magazine. Matthew Keys is a former Reuters journalist who was convicted in October 2015 of supporting the Anonymous collective and that was sentenced to 24 months in prison for […]
Kaspersky experts uncovered a new wave of phishing scams that use a COVID-19 theme and impersonate shipping carriers, including FedEx, UPS, and DHL. The COVID-19 outbreak is forcing people to work from home and make shopping online causing a consequent increase in the number of home deliveries. Crooks are attempting to exploit the crisis and […]
The Outlaw Hacking Group is back, malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab have uncovered a new botnet that is targeting European organizations Introduction During our daily monitoring activities, we intercepted a singular Linux malware trying to penetrate the network of some of our customers. The Linux malware is the well-known “Shellbot”, it is a crimetool belonging […]
The operators behind the Shade Ransomware (Troldesh) shut down their operations and released over 750,000 decryption keys. Good news for the victims of the infamous Shade Ransomware, the operators behind the threat have shut down their operations and released over 750,000 decryption keys. The cybercrime gang also apologized for the damages they have caused their […]
Group-IB helped Russian Police in detaining the operators of a fraudulent online service, selling fake digital passes to move around Moscow amid COVID-19 lockdown. Group-IB, an international cybersecurity company, and the Moscow Department of Information Technology have helped Moscow police in identifying and detaining the operators of a fraudulent online service, selling fake digital passes […]
Experts managed to sinkhole several C2 servers of the VictoryGate botnet that already infected over 35,000 devices and propagates via infected USB devices. The VictoryGate botnet is active since at least May 2019, the botnet is more active in Latin America the most. More than 90% of the infected devices are located in Peru. Experts from […]
This post includes the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from April 19 to April 25, 2020. Please give me your vote for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERShttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8AkYMfAAwJ4JZzYRm8GfsJCDON8q83C9_wu5u10sNAt_CcA/viewform Threat actors exploit the interest in the Coronavirus outbreak while infections increase worldwide, experts are observing new campaigns on a daily bases. Below […]
Several US universities and colleges were targeted in phishing attacks aimed at delivering malware previously used by China-linked APT groups. Faculty and students at several U.S. universities and colleges were targeted in phishing attacks, threat actors attempted to infect the victims’ systems with a remote access Trojan (RAT) previously used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. The […]
Experts from Cyble identified a threat actor attempting to sell Huiying Medical Technology’s source code for AI-assisted COVID-19 detection and experimental data. Researchers from the data breach notification firm Cyble have identified a credible bad actor that goes online with moniker ‘THE0TIME’ claiming to have gained access to Huiying Medical Technology’s COVID-19 detection’s technology. “As part of […]
Researchers at Zscaler observed an increase of 30,000% in Coronavirus-themed attacks in March when compared to the beginning of 2020. Researchers from Zscaler observed an increase of 30,000% in Coronavirus-themed attacks in March when compared to the beginning of 2020. In January experts started observing first attacks using COVID-19-related lures and themes, just two months later […]