- Connecticut city loses $6 million in multiple cyber attacks on public school district, manages to recoup half
August 11, 2023
The city of New Haven lost more than $6 million in multiple cyberattacks on its public school district earlier this summer and has so far managed to recoup about half of the money, officials announced Thursday. The thefts, which occurred in June and involved hackers impersonating the city’s chief operating officer and private vendors in emails, ...
- 5 arrested in Poland for running bulletproof hosting service for cybercrime gangs
August 11, 2023
This week, the Polish Central Cybercrime Bureau (Centralne Biuro Zwalczania Cyberprzestępczości) under the supervision of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Katowice (Prokuratura Regionalna w Katowicach) took action against LolekHosted.net, a bulletproof hosting service used by criminals to launch cyber-attacks across the world. Five of its administrators were arrested, and all of its servers seized, rendering LolekHosted.net ...
- Unknown actor targets power generator with DroxiDat and Cobalt Strike
August 10, 2023
Recently Kaspersky pushed a report about an interesting and common component of the cybercrime malware set – SystemBC. And, in much the same vein as the 2021 Darkside Colonial Pipeline incident, they found a new SystemBC variant deployed to a critical infrastructure target. This time, the proxy-capable backdoor was deployed alongside Cobalt Strike beacons in ...
- Attacker combines phone, email lures into believable, complex attack chain
August 10, 2023
In the course of performing a postmortem investigation of an infected computer, Sophos X-Ops discovered that the attack began with an innocent-sounding phone call. The caller prompted an employee of a Switzerland-based organization to initiate a complex attack chain that compromised the employee’s computer. Sophos Incident Response analysts found that the attackers may have targeted the ...
- JanelaRAT: Repurposed BX Rat Variant Targeting LATAM FinTech
August 10, 2023
In June of 2023, researchers at Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered a threat actor targeting FinTech users in the LATAM region. JanelaRAT involves several tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) such as DLL side-loading, dynamic C2 infrastructure, and a multi-stage attack. The final malware involved in this campaign is a heavily modified variant of BX RAT. Because of this, ...
- Common TTPs of attacks against industrial organizations
August 10, 2023
In 2022 Kaspersky investigated a series of attacks against industrial organizations in Eastern Europe. In the campaigns, the attackers aimed to establish a permanent channel for data exfiltration, including data stored on air-gapped systems. Based on similarities found between these campaigns and previously researched campaigns (e.g., ExCone, DexCone), including the use of FourteenHi variants, specific TTPs ...
- An overview of the new Rhysida ransomware targeting the Healthcare sector
August 9, 2023
On August 4, 2023, the HHS’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) released a security alert about a relatively new ransomware called Rhysida (detected as Ransom.PS1.RHYSIDA.SM), which has been active since May 2023. In this blog entry, Trend Micro reaseachers will provide details on Rhysida, including its targets and what they know about its infection ...
- Attackers Distribute Malware via Freeze.rs And SYK Crypter
August 9, 2023
FortiGuard Labs recently detected a new injector written in Rust—one of the fastest-growing programming languages—to inject shellcode and introduce XWorm into a victim’s environment. While Rust is relatively uncommon in malware development, several campaigns have adopted this language since 2019, including Buer loader, Hive, and RansomExx. FortiGuard Labs analysis also revealed a significant increase in injector ...
- Personal data of at least 26,212 people accessed in ransomware attack, Dallas tells state
August 9, 2023
Computer hackers accessed the personal information of at least 26,212 Texans in the recent ransomware attack on the city of Dallas, according to an official disclosure made public Monday on the Texas attorney general’s web site, three months after the breach. The city’s notice to the attorney general’s office says the data breach included names, addresses, ...
- Paracetamol maker Granules India’ Q1 profit hurt by cyber attack disruptions
August 9, 2023
Granules India Ltd the maker of paracetamol and ibuprofen pain relievers, reported a 62.5% fall in first-quarter profit on Wednesday, as a cyber security incident significantly disrupted operations. The generic drug maker’s consolidated net profit tumbled to 478.9 million rupees ($5.8 million) in the April-June quarter, from 1.27 billion rupees a year earlier. Granules faced a ...