Delaware, USA – April 5, 2019 – German chemical giant Bayer stood a cyber attack that was meant to steal the company’s sensitive data, Reuters informed. The malware that was further identified as typical of the Chinese Winnti group had infiltrated the system early last year and was closely monitored by Bayer’s Cyber Defence Center […]
One of the largest drinks suppliers Arizona Beverages is restoring their operations caused by a massive ransomware attack that shut down operations of the Sales department, Tech Crunch informs. The company’s IT specialists and hired experts are still working at the recovery of the company’s back-end servers that were victimized by iEnscrypt ransomware and there is […]
Delaware, USA – April 3, 2019 – APT32 continue to improve their techniques for conducting cyber espionage campaigns. Researchers suggest that this group is behind the compromise of Toyota and Lexus sales subsidiaries and the likely theft of personal data of more than 3 million customers. The group returned to business after a relatively long […]
Delaware, USA – April 2, 2019 – Last weekend, a ransomware attack wreaked havoc on the City of Albany, New York. According to Mayor Kathy Sheehan, there is no evidence that any personal info has been stolen, but City employees will be provided with credit monitoring. The attack occurred on Saturday, March 30, and by […]
Delaware, USA – April 1, 2019 – Even though researchers have documented a significant decline in the popularity of DDoS attacks, which is also caused by recent lawsuits over botnet operators and ‘stresser’ services, the adversaries continue to improve DDoS’er malware threats. A recently published article by the MalwareMustDie team reviews ELF malware that is […]
Delaware, USA – March 29, 2019 – Magento has released the update this week patching a critical vulnerability in the platform. It is not known whether it was used for attacks in the wild, but cybercriminal groups who compromise commercial sites to install skimmers will not leave SQL injection vulnerability unheeded. Magento CMS is used […]
Delaware, USA – March 28, 2019 – Elfin group (aka APT33) conducts cyber espionage campaigns primarily focusing on organizations in Saudi Arabia and the United States. State-sponsored actors are interested not only in government organizations, but also in companies in the chemical, engineering, telecommunications, finance, and IT sectors. In addition to cyber espionage, the researchers suspect […]
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Delaware, USA – March 26, 2019 – The new supply chain attack targets ASUS users who downloaded the Live Update software from the official website. The investigation is currently ongoing, but researchers from Kaspersky Lab have published an interim report detailing this campaign dubbed Operation ShadowHammer. Unidentified APT group modified the legitimate version of the […]
Delaware, USA – March 25, 2019 – It became known about two victims of the LockerGoga ransomware that caused a great stir last week. According to Motherboard, this month, in addition to Norsk Hydro, two American chemical companies became victims of large-scale cyber attacks: Hexion and Momentive. The incidents occurred on March 12, but the […]