- Round 4: Hacker returns and puts 26Mil user records for sale on the Dark Web
March 17, 2019
A hacker who has previously put up for sale over 840 million user records in the past month, has returned with a fourth round of hacked data that he’s selling on a dark web marketplace. This time, the hacker has put up for sale the data of six companies, totaling 26.42 million user records, for which ...
- Disrupting the Attack Chain Through Detecting Credential Dumping
March 15, 2019
There are various steps that an attacker must follow in order to execute any successful attack, with the initial compromise being just one stage in the overall attack chain. Once attackers have successfully breached the perimeter of an organization, they enter into the lateral movement phase where they attempt to tiptoe through a network, identifying ...
- Island hopping: The latest security threat you should be aware of
March 12, 2019
While island hopping sounds like a great way to spend a holiday in Thailand or Greece, the term also refers to an advanced cyber attack technique. Though it’s not a new phenomenon, this type of attack increased in prevalence in 2018 and will likely become more and more common. The name ‘island hopping’ comes from a WWII ...
- North Korean Hackers Behind $571M Crypto Heists Says UN Report
March 12, 2019
North Korean backed hacking groups were behind multiple cyberattacks impacting financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges as detailed in a report issued by a panel of experts for the United Nations (UN) Security Council. According to the report provided by the panel which comes as a confirmation of what security researchers have previously reported, “cyberspace is used by the DPRK as ...
- New SLUB Backdoor Uses GitHub, Communicates via Slack
March 11, 2019
In mid-February, Kaspersky Lab received a request for incident response from one of its clients. The individual who initially reported the issue to our client refused to disclose the origin of the indicator that they shared. What we do know is that it was a screenshot from one of the client’s internal computers taken on ...
- Georgia county pays a whopping $400,000 to get rid of a ransomware infection
March 9, 2019
Officials in Jackson County, Georgia, paid $400,000 to cyber-criminals this week to get rid of a ransomware infection and regain access to their IT systems. The ransomware hit the county’s internal network last week, on Friday, March 1, 11Alive reported on Wednesday. The infection forced most of the local government’s IT systems offline, with the exception of its website and 911 ...
- Email verification service takes itself offline after 800 million records get publicly exposed
March 8, 2019
An online email verification service has taken itself offline after approximately 809 million of its customers’ emails were exposed through an unprotected server. Researchers discovered a non-password protected MongoDB instance amounting to 150GB of data split across four separate collections last week. They analysed this exposed data, 808,593,939 records in total, and published their findings on Thursday. The exposed ...
- Data-Wiping Cyberattacks Plague Financial Firms
March 6, 2019
Over a quarter of surveyed financial institutions reported that they were targeted by destructive cyberattacks over the past year, bent on completely destroying data. That’s according to a new Carbon Black report unveiled at RSA this year. The report, “Modern Bank Heists: The Bank Robbery Shifts to Cyberspace,” outlines the top attacks that financial firms are facing ...
- Fileless Banking Trojan Targeting Brazilian Banks Downloads Possible Botnet Capability, Info Stealers
March 4, 2019
Trend Micro analyzed a fileless malware with multiple .BAT attachments and a batch file from IoCs reported by researchers online that was capable of opening an IP address, downloading a PowerShell with a banking trojan payload, and installing a hack tool and an information stealer. Looking further, we observed it stealing machine information and user ...
- How the Dark Web Data Bazaar Fuels Enterprise Attacks
March 3, 2019
It seems every aspect of our lives is available to be found somewhere on the internet. And the information available isn’t simply embarrassing browsing histories but ranges from our medical histories to the logon credentials we use to access many of our online services. This is certainly a privacy concern, but it’s also increasingly an enterprise ...