Cyber-criminals constantly take advantage of the “hottest” media topics to lure victims and infect them with malware. This time hackers decided to profit from the increased attention to the last US presidential elections and launched a Donald Trump-themed spam campaign. The final goal of this operation is to distribute the latest QRAT Trojan malware variant, […]
The banking sector has always been an attractive target for cyber-criminals. After Zeus and Gozi emerged in 2007, prominent banking Trojans regularly made the headlines by emptying accounts of customers. Recently, security researchers have spotted yet another member of the financial malware family. This time the campaign is aimed at the US and Canadian banking […]
In today’s post, we want to remind our readers about LokiBot infostealer that provides backdoors to the victim Windows OS and enables fraudsters to steal sensitive data and even bring in place different payloads. LokiBot infostealer comes to the victims via malspam campaigns often masquerading as a trusted sender, containing an attached document luring the […]
Delaware, USA – June 21, 2019 – Another phishing campaign with the upgraded DanaBot trojan is reported to target Poland and Italy. The new DanaBot strain comes with a Blitzkrieg ransomware module that changes the extension of the encrypted files to .non. Initially, the DanaBot malware was observed during the phishing campaign in Australia back […]
Delaware, USA – June 18, 2019 – One of the leaders of airplane parts manufacturing was informed to have shut down operations at its plants because of a large-scale ransomware attack. Asco Industries who is the leader in the design and manufacture of major functional components for Boeing and Airbus commercial passenger jets, Airbus A400M […]
Delaware, USA – April 10, 2019 – 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, […]
Delaware, USA – April 9, 2019 – The largest optical products manufacturer Hoya Corporation suffered a cyber attack that infected more than 100 computers compromising users’ 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 […]
It’s been a hot summer for security industry: in less than a week since the initially suspected ransomware Petya.A has turned out to be much more than meets the eye. Security researchers around the world have rightfully dubbed it NotPetya and EternalPetya, as the malware was never meant to ask for ransom – it was […]
Good news everyone! After a rather long day, night and morning of studying the news, researching and hunting the #WannaCry ransomwareworm there are some discoveries to be shared.. This includes Host and Network IOCs, their analysis obtained with help of fellow security researchers and practitioners, review of C2 infrastructure and its interactions with Tor. Last but not least are some free SIEM use cases that […]