Delaware, USA – March 22, 2019 – APT32, also known as the OceanLotus group, is notorious for the cyber espionage campaigns targeting Asian countries and large-scale watering hole attacks. Researchers of ESET analyzed recent group campaigns and found changes in the group’s actions. The adversaries send carefully crafted emails for each target, disguised as current […]
Delaware, USA – March 21, 2019 – Carabank group returned to attacks on financial organizations using new tools. The Carabank group (also known as FIN7) has been active for 4 years already; last year U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of three group members, who hid their illegal activities under the flag of Combi […]
Delaware, USA – March 20, 2019 – The Norwegian company Norsk Hydro became a victim of a cyber attack and was forced to switch to manual operations. NorCERT warned the organization about attacks using LockerGoga ransomware and defined that Norsk Hydro was one of its victims. The attack began on Monday night, presumably in the […]
Delaware, USA – March 19, 2019 – More than half of the brute force attacks targeted at tenants of G Suite and Microsoft Office 365 are conducted using the IMAP protocol. According to the Proofpoint study, every fourth such attack ends with a successful compromise. Such a success rate is possible because targeted accounts are […]
Delaware, USA – March 18, 2019 – Less than a month ago, cyber security community became aware of a severe vulnerability in the archiver, which allows throwing a malicious file into Autorun folder, and to date, researchers have discovered over one hundred of WinRAR exploits used in real attacks. McAfee Labs reported their findings on […]
Delaware, USA – March 15, 2019 – Another group gets into the game using the notorious method of stealing payment card data using JavaScript code inserted to the site. The new family of skimmers, which experts from Group-IB called GMO (after the name of the site associated with the malicious campaign), was found on six […]
Delaware, USA – March 14, 2019 – A new tsunami of spam struck Japan, infecting users with the latest versions of the Ursnif and Bebloh trojans. In the current campaign, adversaries use a version of Ursnif compiled just a few weeks ago that has a number of new features. Researchers at Cybereason recorded a massive […]
Delaware, USA – March 13, 2019 – Extending WordPress capabilities with plugins doesn’t only widen the default functions but also brings a number of risks. Woocommerce Abandoned Cart Lite plugin provides a webadmin with the report of the products frequently bought from the site as well as the details about the shopping card list. However, […]
Delaware, USA – March 12, 2019 – Game development business has recently become the target of the notorious Chinese Winnti Group, ESET informs in their research. A gaming platform and two headline games have fallen the victims to the recent attack that compromised the networks and darted in a malicious payload. All three victims of […]
Delaware, USA – March 11, 2019 – Local governmental systems in Jackson County, Georgia, suffered an extensive attack that made the officials pay the ransom equal to $400,000 to restore the access to the systems after shutting down all the operations. The local services laid under the necessity of conducting the on-time performance on paper […]