- Watch out for this triple-pronged PayPal phishing and fraud scam
December 2, 2022
My day started rough. It was 7 a.m., and I was just partially through my first cup of coffee, when I noticed a new message in my email inbox. It was from PayPal and the subject line said, “You’ve got a money request.” And so began my first look at this three-pronged PayPal phishing scam. Read more… Source: ZDNet
- #StopRansomware: Cuba Ransomware
December 1, 2022
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are releasing this joint CSA to disseminate known Cuba ransomware IOCs and TTPs associated with Cuba ransomware actors identified through FBI investigations, third-party reporting, and open-source reporting. This advisory updates the December 2021 FBI Flash: Indicators of Compromise Associated with Cuba Ransomware. Note: ...
- Medibank hackers reportedly release all data on dark web
December 1, 2022
Hackers who breached Medibank’s systems have dumped another batch of data on the dark web, along with claims the files contain all of the data they took in a heist that impacted 9.7 million customers. The Australian insurance group confirms six zipped files of data have been released, while government officials reiterate the overdue need ...
- New DuckLogs malware service claims having thousands of ‘customers’
December 1, 2022
A new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation named ‘DuckLogs’ has emerged, giving low-skilled attackers easy access to multiple modules to steal information, log key strokes, access clipboard data, and remote access to the compromised host. DuckLogs is entirely web-based. It claims to have thousands of cybercriminals paying a subscription to generate and launch more than 4,000 malware builds. The ...
- Lastpass says hackers accessed customer data in new breach
November 30, 2022
LastPass says unknown attackers breached its cloud storage using information stolen during a previous security incident from August 2022. The company added that, once in, the threat actors also managed to access customer data stored in the compromised storage service. “We recently detected unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service, which is currently shared by both ...
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences restores e-Hospital data after cyber attack
November 30, 2022
The server at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi has been down for the eighth day in a row, and according to reports, more analysts from Delhi are under consideration for suspension for cybersecurity violations after two of them were already suspended. According to the sources quoted by the report, “The sanitising ...
- Crafty threat actor uses ‘aged’ domains to evade security platforms
November 30, 2022
A sophisticated threat actor named ‘CashRewindo’ has been using ‘aged’ domains in global malvertising campaigns that lead to investment scam sites. Malvertising involves the injection of malicious JavaScript code in digital ads promoted by legitimate advertising networks, taking website visitors to pages that host phishing forms, drop malware, or operate scams. The CashRewindo malvertising campaigns are spread ...
- Trigona ransomware spotted in increasing attacks worldwide
November 29, 2022
A previously unnamed ransomware has rebranded under the name ‘Trigona,’ launching a new Tor negotiation site where they accept Monero as ransom payments. Trigona has been active for some time, with samples seen at the beginning of the year. However, those samples utilized email for negotiations and were not branded under a specific name. As discovered by ...
- Criminals use trending TikTok challenge to make data-stealing malware invisible
November 29, 2022
Malware-slinging miscreants are taking advantage of a trending TikTok challenge — and viewers’ dirty minds — to spread data-stealing malware via a phony app that’s had more than one million views so far. The new TikTok trend is called Invisible Challenge, and it involves a person filming themself naked while using an effect called Invisible Body ...
- Over a million user accounts ‘stolen’ in South Africa
November 28, 2022
Cyber security firm Kaspersky has warned that over a million company user accounts were compromised using a ‘data stealer’ in South Africa since 2021, and that the data may well have ended up on forums and markets on the dark web. The company said the average price that criminals charge for access to corporate systems in ...