February 08, 2023The Hacker NewsCyber Security / Cyber Threats To succeed as a cybersecurity analyst, you need to understand the traits, values, and thought processes of hackers, as well as the tools they use to launch their attacks. In a webinar called The Hacker Mindset, Red Team Researcher shared how you can use some of … Read more
A view of the T3 2022 threat landscape on ESET TV and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts In 2022, an unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine shocked the world, with devastating consequences for the country and its people. The war continues to affect everything from energy prices and inflation to … Read more
February 08, 2023Ravi LakshmanaCryptocurrency / Endpoint Security A Russian national pleaded guilty in the US on February 7, 2023 to charges of money laundering and attempting to conceal the source of funds related to the Ryuk ransomware attacks. Denis Mikhalovich Dubnikov, 30, was arrested in Amsterdam in November 2021 before being extradited from the Netherlands … Read more
February 08, 2023Ravi LakshmanaThreat Intelligence / Cyber Warfare Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has issued a warning about cyber attacks against the country’s public authorities deploying legitimate remote access software called Remcos. A massive phishing campaign has been attributed to a threat actor being tracked UAC-0050The agency describes the activity as espionage-motivated, given the … Read more
The rise of the cloud has made business more flexible, agile and streamlined, all of which are good reasons why more than 90% of enterprises are committed to a cross-platform strategy. But complexity creates seams where secrets leak out. Recent high-profile breaches at Microsoft and airports have made misconfigured S3 buckets a guide to cybersecurity. … Read more
A financial app called Money Lover has been found to be leaking user transactions and associated metadata, including wallet names and email addresses. addresses. This is reported by Trustwave, which published its findings in a blog post on February 7. Money Lover, developed by Vietnam’s Finsify, is a tool for managing personal finances: budgeting, expense … Read more
A newly discovered variant of the prolific Clop ransomware family brings both good and bad news for security teams. The good news is that the malware is flawed, and victims can relatively easily decrypt any data it encrypts without first paying a ransom for the decryption key. The bad news is that the new malware … Read more
KrebsOnSecurity is likely to get a decent amount of screen time in the near future Hulu docu-series about the 2015 mega-breach on a marital infidelity website Ashley Madison. While I can’t predict what the producers will do with the footage we shot, it’s fair to say the series will reveal compelling new clues as to … Read more
The latest round of compromises, which exploited unpatched Zimbra devices, was a North Korean government-sponsored effort aimed at stealing intelligence from a collection of public and private medical and energy researchers. Analysts at W Labs explained in a new report that due to the overlap of techniques, and a misstep by one of the threat … Read more
A new Android banking trojan called PixPirate targets more than 100 million Brazilian Pix instant payment accounts. The Pix payment platform was created and operated by the Central Bank of Brazil and is used to make instant mobile payments in Latin America through various banks. Researchers from the Cleafy TIR Team, which have been tracking … Read more