- EUROPOL: Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment 2018
November 12, 2018
It is my pleasure to introduce the 2018 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), not only as it is the fifth anniversary edition of the report, but also my first as the Executive Director of Europol. The IOCTA has been and continues to be a flagship strategic product for Europol. It provides a unique law enforcement ...
- Emotet Campaign Ramps Up with Mass Email Harvesting Module
November 12, 2018
The new variant can exfiltrate emails for a period going back 180 days, en masse. A large-scale spam campaign has launched, spreading the Emotet banking trojan. Worryingly, the offensive has launched about a week after a fresh module for mass email-harvesting was detected for the malware. Emotet is technically a banking trojan, but it’s most often used ...
- Rapidly Growing Router Botnet Takes Advantage of 5-Year-Old Flaw
November 7, 2018
A sophisticated proxy code has infected hundreds of thousands of devices already. A fresh botnet is spreading across the landscape, targeting router equipment. So far, hundreds of thousands of bot endpoints have already been identified, and they’re apparently being marshaled to send out massive amounts of spam. The botnet first emerged in September, according to 360Netlab telemetry, ...
- Healthcare Targeted by 37 Percent of All Ransomware Attacks in Q3 2018
November 7, 2018
During the third quarter of 2018 ransomware attacks were at an all-time high and the ransoms asked from organizations to decrypt the locked files were also on the rise according to a report from Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services. According to their analysis, the number of ransomware attacks more than doubled during September when compared to ...
- ‘Almost all’ Pakistani banks hacked in security breach, says FIA cybercrime head
November 6, 2018
In a shocking revelation, the head of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing has said data from “almost all” Pakistani banks was stolen in a recent security breach. “According to a recent report we have received, data from almost all Pakistani banks has been reportedly hacked,” FIA Cybercrimes Director retired Capt Mohammad Shoaib told Geo News on Tuesday. When ...
- HSBC discloses security incident
November 6, 2018
Banking giant HSBC disclosed on Monday a security incident that impacted an undisclosed number of the institution’s customers. “HSBC became aware of online accounts being accessed by unauthorized users between October 4, 2018 and October 14, 2018,” the bank wrote in a data breach notification lettersubmitted to Californian authorities. The bank said it suspended access to online accounts ...
- Inception Group Uses POWERSHOWER Backdoor in Two-Stage Spear Phishing Attacks
November 5, 2018
The Inception threat group has been observed exploiting the CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office memory corruption vulnerability and a PowerShell-based backdoor dubbed POWERSHOWER in their most recent multi-stage attack campaign during October 2018. Inception was seen in action since at least 2014, using multiple highly automated malware toolkits targeting a vast array of industries and platforms from all ...
- Two botnets are fighting over control of thousands of unsecured Android devices
November 2, 2018
Two botnet gangs are fighting to take control over as many unsecured Android devices as they can to use their resources and mine cryptocurrency behind owners’ backs. The turf war between these two botnets –one named Fbot and the other named Trinity– has been going on for at least a month if we’re to combine the ...
- Utilities, Energy Sector Attacked Mainly Via IT, Not ICS
November 1, 2018
Stealing administrative credentials to carry out months-long spy campaigns is a top threat. While industrial control systems (ICS) are the most talked-about when it comes to cyberattacks against energy and utilities firms, most attacks actually take aim at the enterprise IT networks used by these organizations, rather than critical infrastructure itself. The Vectra 2018 Spotlight Report on Energy and ...
- Emotet malware gang is mass-harvesting millions of emails in mysterious campaign
October 31, 2018
A notorious malware family that has been on a resurgent path since last year has received a major update this week that will send shivers down any organization’s back. According to a report from Kryptos Logic shared earlier today with ZDNet, the Emotet malware family has started mass-harvesting full email messages from infected victims, starting yesterday. The Emotet group ...