Delaware, USA – April 3, 2018 – Yesterday Energy Transfer Partners LP reported hacking of data systems related to the company’s pipeline network. The normal functioning of the systems was restored after 6 p. m. New York time. The company said that cyberattack did not affect the transportation of natural gas. The attack was aimed […]
Delaware, USA – April 2, 2018 – Last week, Gemini Advisory reported one of the most massive data card leakages. On Wednesday, March 28, adversaries from the JockerStash group announced a new batch of compromised payment cards, which they called BIGBADABOOM-2, and put up for sale in Darknet nearly 125,000 of the stolen 5 million. […]
Delaware, USA – March 30, 2018 – Sometimes even not very sophisticated or stealthy malware can be quite effective. Researchers from Cybereason discovered a simple keylogger disguising as Kaspersky Internet Security 2017 so they named it Fauxpersky. To create this keylogger, attackers abused AutoHotKey, a popular application for compiling small programs that automate repetitive tasks […]
Delaware, USA – March 29, 2018 – Researchers discovered a new malware family dubbed GoScanSSH that conducts brute force attacks on devices which support authentication via SSH. Infected systems are used to find the next suitable target and compromise it using a list of nearly 7,000 usernames and passwords combinations. To do this, GoScanSSH generates […]
Delaware, USA – March 28, 2018 – Four academics from US universities published research that describes a new CPU side-channel attack on systems with Intel processors. The new attack named BranchScope and is very similar to the second variant of the Spectre attack but unlike it BranchScope targets process that chooses branches of operations to […]
Delaware, USA – March 27, 2018 – Researchers from FireEye discovered a new campaign targeting government departments and agencies with Sanny infostealer. The campaign is conducted by a hacker group, active since 2012 and allegedly located on the Korean Peninsula. Attackers changed their method of malware delivery and upgraded Sanny to bypass User Account Control […]
Delaware, USA – March 26, 2018 – TLS 1.3 is approved by The Internet Engineering Task Force, eight years after the approval of the previous version of the standard. For four years, the IETF reviewed 28 drafts and selected the fastest and safest of them. TLS 1.3 uses new hashing and encryption algorithms, it also […]
Delaware, USA – March 23, 2018 – Several online systems used by the City of Atlanta, Georgia, were attacked by SamSam Ransomware. Yesterday morning, attackers disabled several online city services, including online bill pay services and online court records. They demanded more than $50,000 ransom for the data decryption. Chief Operating Officer Richard Cox said […]
Delaware, USA – March 22, 2018 – Treat actors behind TrickBot banking trojan continue to modify this malware in search of the new opportunities of monetization. Researchers from Webroot company discovered and analyzed the latest modification of the virus, which drops additional ScreenLocker module on the victim’s computer. The module itself is still under development, […]
Delaware, USA – March 21, 2018 – Last week, US-CERT issued Alert TA18-074A, based on the results of FBI and the Department of Homeland Security investigation, which provided indicators of compromise and TTPs of Energetic Bear hacker group (also known as DragonFly). Their campaign has been running since March 2016 targeting government entities and energy […]