- Emotet malware now wants you to upgrade Microsoft Word
October 24, 2020
Emotet switched to a new template this week that pretends to be a Microsoft Office message stating that Microsoft Word needs to be updated to add a new feature. Emotet is a malware infection that spreads through emails containing Word documents with malicious macros. When opening these documents, their contents will try to trick the user ...
- WastedLocker ransomware hits Boyne Resorts ski resort operator
October 23, 2020
US-based ski and golf resort operator Boyne Resorts has suffered a cyberattack by the WastedLocker operation that has impacted company-wide reservation systems. Boyne Resorts owns and operates eleven properties located in the USA and Canada and has 11,000 employees. Many of these properties are situated on well-known ski mountains, including Big Sky, Montana, Sugarloaf, Maine, and ...
- New Abaddon RAT malware gets commands via Discord, has ransomware feature
October 23, 2020
The new ‘Abaddon’ remote access trojan may be the first to use Discord as a full-fledged command and control server that instructs the malware on what tasks to perform on an infected PC. Even worse, a ransomware feature is being developed for the malware. Threat actors abusing Discord for malicious activity is nothing new. In the past, ...
- Wireshark Tutorial: Examining Dridex Infection Traffic
October 23, 2020
This tutorial is designed for security professionals who investigate suspicious network activity and review network packet captures (pcaps). Familiarity with Wireshark is necessary to understand this tutorial, which focuses on Wireshark version 3.x. Dridex is the name for a family of information-stealing malware that has also been described as a banking Trojan. This malware first appeared ...
- Phishing Attack Targets Office 365 Users
October 22, 2020
Researchers are warning of a phishing campaign that pretends to be an automated message from Microsoft Teams. In reality, the attack aims to steal Office 365 recipients’ login credentials. Teams is Microsoft’s popular collaboration tool, which has particularly risen in popularity among remote workforces during the pandemic – making it an attractive brand for attackers to ...
- On the trail of the XMRig miner
October 22, 2020
As protection methods improve, the developers of miners have had to enhance their own creations, often turning to non-trivial solutions. Several such solutions (previously unseen by us) were detected during our analysis of the open source miner XMRig. How it all began: ransominer Alongside well-known groups that make money from data theft and ransomware (for example, Maze, ...
- French IT giant Sopra Steria hit by Ryuk ransomware
October 22, 2020
French IT services giant Sopra Steria suffered a cyberattack on October 20th, 2020, that reportedly encrypted portions of their network with the Ryuk ransomware. Sopra Steria is a European information technology company with 46,000 employees in 25 countries worldwide. The company provides a wide range of IT services, including consulting, systems integration, and software development. On October ...
- Life of Maze ransomware
October 21, 2020
In the past year, Maze ransomware has become one of the most notorious malware families threatening businesses and large organizations. Dozens of organizations have fallen victim to this vile malware, including LG, Southwire, and the City of Pensacola. The history of this ransomware began in the first half of 2019, and back then it didn’t have ...
- MobileIron enterprise MDM servers under attack from DDoS gangs, nation-states
October 21, 2020
A month after details were published about three severe vulnerabilities in a type of server used to manage fleets of mobile devices, multiple threat actors are now exploiting these bugs to take over crucial enterprise servers and even orchestrate intrusions inside company networks. The targets of these attacks are MDM servers from software maker MobileIron. MDM stands ...
- Montreal’s STM public transport system hit by ransomware attack
October 21, 2020
Montreal’s Société de transport de Montréal (STM) public transport system was hit with a RansomExx ransomware attack that has impacted services and online systems. On October 19th, STM suffered an outage that affected its IT systems, website, and customer support. While these outages did not affect the operation of buses or metro systems, people with disabilities who ...