Hundreds of companies have been recently exposed to a massive supply chain attack on the software company Kaseya. A zero-day bug in Kaseya’s VSA software was nefariously leveraged by the REvil gang to infect 30 managed service providers (MSPs) and multiple their customers with ransomware. Although the vendor has been aware of the vulnerability since […]
Security researchers from FortiGuard Labs have uncovered a new FormBook variant being delivered in a massive phishing campaign. Particularly, adversaries target users with malware-laced Microsoft PowerPoint documents disguised as a follow-up to the recent purchase order. Those who fell for the bait of scammers got their devices infected with a notorious data-stealing malware. New FormBook […]
Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a long-lasting cyber espionage operation launched by a Chinese nation-backed actor to target government and military institutions across Vietnam. The hacker group, known as Cycldek, APT27, GoblinPanda, and LuckyMouse, relied on a brand-new and highly evasive remote access Trojan to reach its malicious goal. The RAT, called FoundCore, […]
Cybersecurity analysts have detected a sophisticated malware sample that attacks Apple users in the wild. The joint research from Red Canary, Malwarebytes, and VMWare Carbon Black details that approximately 30,000 hosts across 153 countries have been compromised by the new threat dubbed Silver Sparrow. The topmost infection rates were spotted in the United States, Canada, […]
Data theft malware continues to get the ride of popularity among financially-motivated hackers. Increased interest boosts the development of new sophisticated strains promoted on the underground market. Obviously, the cheapest and simultaneously functional offerings grab attention first. This is where Oski stealer comes to the spotlight as highly dangerous and relatively low-priced malware. Oski Stealer […]
The in-depth inspection of the SolarWinds breach revealed the fourth piece of malicious software connected to this historical incident. According to the infosec experts, the new threat, dubbed Raindrop, is a Cobalt Strike downloader. It was applied in the post-compromise phase of attack to enhance lateral movement across a selected number of targeted networks. Raindrop […]
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 […]