- FBI: Easy Access to Information for Conducting Fraudulent Emergency Data Requests Impacts US-Based Companies and Law Enforcement Agencies
November 4, 2024
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this Private Industry Notification to highlight a trend of compromised US and foreign government email addresses used to conduct fraudulent emergency data requests to US-based companies, exposing personally identifying information (PII). While the concept of fraudulent emergency data requests was previously used by other threat actors, such as ...
- Crooks bank on Microsoft’s search engine to phish customers
November 4, 2024
Malwarebytes Labs researchers identified a new wave of phishing for banking credentials that targets consumers via Microsoft’s search engine. A Bing search query for ‘Keybank login’ currently returns malicious links on the first page, and sometimes as the top search result. Malwarebytes Labs has reported the fraudulent sites to Microsoft already. While Microsoft’s Bing only has ...
- GoZone Ransomware Adopts Coercive Tactics to Extract Payment
November 4, 2024
This week, the SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team analyzed a ransomware that not only encrypts files but also accuses the victim of harboring explicit content on their computer and then threatens to turn it over to authorities if ransom is not paid. Extortion attacks often come as unsolicited emails, and GoZone has stooped to pretending ...
- New Trend in MSI File Abuse: New OceanLotus Group First to Use MST Files to Deliver Tromas
November 4, 2024
During recent daily operations, the QiAnXin Threat Intelligence Center discovered that the new OceanLotus group, which we have been continuously tracking since mid-2022, has begun to re-activate and is using a new tactic of MSI file misuse. Even though the MSI TRANSFORMS technique was theoretically disclosed in 2022, this is the first time that QiAnXin researchers have ...
- Stealc Malware Checks Everything – Even the Screen Resolution
November 4, 2024
This week, the SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team reviewed a sample of Stealc malware. This is an infostealer that digs through a victim’s system to extract credentials from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets and fileshare servers. Processes are monitored, as well as keystrokes, active windows and mouse clicks. It will also disable security applications and change network ...
- Canada labels India a ‘cyber adversary’ in new security report
November 1, 2024
India has been described as an adversary for the first time in an official Canadian government document. That description came in the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026 released by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, on Tuesday. In its section on cyber threat from “state adversaries”, it includes China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and India. In ...
- Telematics giant Microlise suffers cyber attack
November 1, 2024
Telematics giant Microlise suffers cyber attack By Gareth Roberts | 1 November 2024 Connected vehicles Microlise has suffered a cyber attack, with a large proportion of the company’s services affected, leaving fleets without some tracking services. The Microlise board says it has appointed external cyber security specialists whose investigations are underway to establish the nature and ...
- UK: Council website back online after cyber attack
November 1, 2024
Burnley Council website is back online after being disrupted by a cyber attack yesterday afternoon. Services across numerous councils in the North West, including Tameside Council and Salford City Council were targeted with a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). IT teams have now successfully restored the website, and no data has been compromised. Read more… Source: MSN ...
- Phish ’n’ Ships Fakes Online Shops to Steal Money and Credit Card Information
October 31, 2024
HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence and Research team recently uncovered and disrupted a sprawling fraud operation centered on fake web shops that abuse digital payment providers to steal consumers’ money and credit card information. The threat, dubbed Phish ’n’ Ships, is made up of hundreds of fake web shops offering in-demand items. The threat actors, whose internal ...
- Loose-lipped neural networks and lazy scammers
October 31, 2024
One topic being actively researched in connection with the breakout of LLMs is capability uplift – when employees with limited experience or resources in some area become able to perform at a much higher level thanks to LLM technology. This is especially important in information security, where cyberattacks are becoming increasingly cost-effective and larger-scale, causing ...