US Cyber Command has issued an unprecedented alert about the "active malicious use" of a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook by Iranian hackers. The warning follows recent reports that Iran …
Ransomware Hits Georgia Courts As Municipal Attacks Spread
The Administrative Office of the Georgia Courts has become the latest government entity to suffer a ransomware attack. The attack was discovered on Saturday, prompting the office to shut down its …
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OceanLotus APT Uses New Ratsnif Trojan for Network Attacks
Researchers with Blackberry Cylance recently studied four variants of the Ratsnif remote access Trojan used by Vietnamese advanced persistent threat (APT) group OceanLotus (aka APT32, CobaltKitty, …
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Facebook abused to spread Remote Access Trojans since 2014
Check Point researchers have uncovered a years-long, "large-scale" cyber campaign in which threat actors used Facebook in order to distribute Remote Access Trojans (RATs). The campaign was active …
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Ten years later, malware authors are still abusing ‘Heaven’s Gate’ technique
A new report by Cisco Talos sheds light on three new malware campaigns that take advantage of "Heaven's Gate," a technique for avoiding detection by anti-malware suites that was discovered over a …
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New Dridex Variant Slips By Anti-Virus Detection
Security researchers with eSentire have detected a new phishing campaign involving a sophisticated new version of Dridex, a banking Trojan that was first spotted in 2011. The new Dridex version is …
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China’s ‘Cloud Hopper’ Hacked Eight Tech Service Companies
An exclusive report by Reuters details a vast China-sponsored cyber espionage campaign that targeted eight major tech companies: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Fujitsu, Tata Consultancy Services, …
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Russian Tech Giant Yandex Targeted With ‘Regin’ Malware: Report
According to a new Reuters report, Russian tech giant Yandex suffered a security breach between October and November of last year, after it was targeted by hackers that were likely working for Western …
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Brazil leads in ransomware attacks
New research by Trend Micro identifies the United States and Brazil as the two most targeted countries when it comes to ransomware attacks. In Q1 of this year, the US accounted for 11,06% of all …
Iran-linked APT33 Shakes Up Cyberespionage Tactics
After Symantec released a detailed report on the modus operandi of Iranian cyber espionage group APT33 in March, the threat group made significant changes to its infrastructure, new research by …
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