- China: Rast ransomware gang aiming at domestic government and enterprises
September 29, 2024
From December 2023 to the present, QiAnXin Threat Intelligence Center observed that a ransomware written in rust language is very active on the Chinese Internet, and a large number of machines in China have been ransomed, with up to more than 20 victimized units only in the terminals of government and enterprises, which the researchers call ...
- Iranian Cyber Actors Targeting Personal Accounts to Support Operations
September 27, 2024
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Cyber Command – Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) are disseminating this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to highlight continued malicious cyber activity by cyber actors working on behalf of the Iranian Government’s Islamic Revolutionary ...
- Ransomware attacks increasingly target Vietnam’s financial sector
September 26, 2024
At a recent conference on digital finance, Le Van Tuan, Director of the Department of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications, said finance is a sector with a high ranking in digital transformation, but at the same time, the risk of information security is always lurking with the sector. According to statistics from ...
- Storm-0501: Ransomware attacks expanding to hybrid cloud environments
September 26, 2024
Microsoft has observed the threat actor tracked as Storm-0501 launching a multi-staged attack where they compromised hybrid cloud environments and performed lateral movement from on-premises to cloud environment, leading to data exfiltration, credential theft, tampering, persistent backdoor access, and ransomware deployment. The said attack targeted multiple sectors in the United States, including government, manufacturing, transportation, and ...
- Australia’s biggest medical imaging provider I-MED data breach exposes tens of thousands of patient files
September 26, 2024
Tens of thousands of patients from Australia’s biggest medical imaging provider I-MED have had swaths of sensitive health and personal information exposed in a data breach using details that have been public for a year. This information includes medical reports, scan images, names, addresses and other details that were stored in I-MED’s internal systems, which were ...
- Threat landscape for industrial automation systems, Q2 2024
September 26, 2024
In the second quarter of 2024, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked decreased by 0.9 pp from the previous quarter to 23.5%. The percentage has decreased by 3.3 pp compared to the second quarter of 2023, when the indicator reached its highest level since records began in 2022. Read more… Source: Kaspersky Sign up ...
- From 12 to 21: How Kaspersky discovered connections between the Twelve and BlackJack groups
September 25, 2024
While analyzing attacks on Russian organizations, Kaspersky team regularly encounters overlapping tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) among different cybercrime groups, and sometimes even shared tools. Kaspersky researchers recently discovered one such overlap: similar tools and tactics between two hacktivist groups – BlackJack and Twelve, which likely belong to a single cluster of activity. In this report, ...
- ‘Two-factor authentication may have stopped Synnovis cyber attack’
September 25, 2024
The cyber attack on pathology provider Synnovis could have been prevented by two-factor authentication, according to Beverley Bryant, strategic advisor in the frontline digitisation team at NHS England. Speaking at the Health Excellence Through Technology (HETT) conference on 24 September 2024, in a session titled ‘Best practice in cyber security: Achieving excellence in the health and ...
- Ransomware Attackers Target Kansas Water Treatment Facility
September 24, 2024
On Sunday, a cyber attack on a water utility in Arkansas City, Kansas prompted its treatment facility to revert to manual operations. The city manager, Randy Frazer, confirmed that the water supply remains unaffected and safe, with no disruption to service reported. The plant’s manual operation is a precautionary measure to enhance security while the situation ...
- Staying a Step Ahead: Mitigating the DPRK IT Worker Threat
September 23, 2024
Since 2022, Mandiant has tracked and reported on IT workers operating on behalf of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). These workers pose as non-North Korean nationals to gain employment with organizations across a wide range of industries in order to generate revenue for the North Korean regime, particularly to evade sanctions and fund ...