Year: 2019

Developer Program Launch

Delaware, USA ā€“ April 19, 2019 ā€“ SOC Prime, Inc. announces Developer program for the global Threat Detection Marketplace. SOC Prime and the TDM platform has, first and foremost, always been focused on enabling the security community through our open-source and free to access tools. Weā€™re doubling down on that commitment by introducing the Developer […]

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Sea Turtle Operation Targets at Least 40 Organizations in 13 Countries

Delaware, USA ā€“ April 18, 2019 ā€“ Sea Turtle cyberespionage campaign lasts for more than 2 years targeting military organizations, energy companies, and government entities in North Africa and the Middle East. Several APT groups actively carry out their operations in this region (1, 2, 3), and Cisco Talos published details about the new operation […]

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MegaLocker Virus Attacks Samba Servers

Delaware, USA ā€“ April 17, 2019 ā€“ ā€˜MegaLocker Virusā€™ ransomware first discovered about a month ago now attacks accessible Samba servers. The first file infections happened presumably via FTP and all attacks were aimed solely at NAS devices. The owners of the compromised devices received instructions to contact the cybercriminals via email and pay the […]

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Scranos Malware Crosses China Boundaries

Delaware, USA ā€“ April 16, 2019 ā€“ In these recent times, cybercriminals having developed and tested malware in China are expanding their list of targets to the nearest countries, or even to the whole world. Bitdefender Labs’ experts published the analysis of the Scranos malware, which appeared at the end of last year and is […]

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Sophisticated Monero Coinminer Spreads Across Asian Countries

Delaware, USA ā€“ April 15, 2019 ā€“ Despite the fall of the Monero cryptocurrency and the closure of Coinhive platform, adversaries do not lose interest in coinminers and continue to modify them to attack organizations. Last week it became known about the attack of sophisticated coinminer on Hoya Corporation which caused about 40% drop in […]

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Emotet Borrows Technique of North Korean APT Group

Delaware, USA ā€“ April 12, 2019 ā€“ The authors of Emotet consistently maintain the reputation of their creation as the most dangerous malware. Researchers at Cofense have discovered a new technique in the arsenal of this trojan: now malware sends customized templates based on previously stolen emails. Email harvesting module was added in October 2018, […]

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TajMahal APT Tool Uses 80 Attack Modules

Delaware, USA ā€“ April 11, 2019 ā€“ TajMahal cyberespionage framework was unnoticed by experts for five years. In a recently published report, KasperskyLab’s experts disclosed that the earliest attack using this malicious tool dates back to 2014, and the most recent version of TajMahal was compiled last year. This is probably the most sophisticated and […]

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Refreshed Mirai Noticed

Delaware, USA ā€“ April 10, 2019 ā€“ The researchers of Palo Alto Networks Unit 24 published a report informing about a strain of Mirai malware compiled to target Xilinx MicroBlaze, Altera Nios II, Tensilica Xtensa and OpenRISC processors is in the wild. Along with the gained abilities to target new systems like digital signal processors, […]

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Hoya Corp Focalizes Cryptojacking Attempt

Delaware, USA ā€“ April 9, 2019 ā€“ The largest optical products manufacturer Hoya Corporation suffered a cyber attack that infected more than 100 computers compromising usersā€™ credentials and tried to take root for cryptocurrency mining, The Japan Times informs. The network controlling server was brought down on March 1 and the orders processing and production […]

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Ransomware Targets Michigan Daily Graft

Delaware, USA ā€“ April 8, 2019 ā€“ Another local infrastructure was hit by massive ransomware attack. Disruption of routine operations requiring a computer and inability to process payments is only the top of the iceberg of all the issues that Genesee County, Michigan faced trying to restore after the Packman ransomware attack, the abc12 informs. […]

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