- What to know about cyberattacks targeting energy pipelines
March 1, 2020
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this past month disclosed a disruptive cyberattack on a U.S. energy facility, raising new concerns about protections for energy providers. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a division of DHS, said a ransomware attack hit a “natural gas compression facility,” leading to a two-day shutdown for the entire pipeline. While the agency ...
- RSAC 2020: Ransomware a ‘National Crisis,’ CISA Says, Ramps ICS Focus
February 28, 2020
Industrial control systems (ICS) and critical infrastructure will be a main focus for the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this year – especially as ransomware looms as a main threat to the sector going forward. That’s according to Christopher Krebs, director of CISA, speaking at RSA Conference 2020 this week. “My agency ...
- Roaming Mantis, part V
February 27, 2020
Kaspersky has continued to track the Roaming Mantis campaign. The group’s attack methods have improved and new targets continuously added in order to steal more funds. The attackers’ focus has also shifted to techniques that avoid tracking and research: whitelist for distribution, analysis environment detection and so on. We’ve also observed new malware families: Fakecop (also ...
- Ransomware Against the Machine: How Adversaries are Learning to Disrupt Industrial Production by Targeting IT and OT
February 24, 2020
Since at least 2017, there has been a significant increase in public disclosures of ransomware incidents impacting industrial production and critical infrastructure organizations. Well-known ransomware families like WannaCry, LockerGoga, MegaCortex, Ryuk, Maze, and now SNAKEHOSE (a.k.a. Snake / Ekans), have cost victims across a variety of industry verticals many millions of dollars in ransom and ...
- ObliqueRAT linked to threat group launching attacks against government targets
February 21, 2020
Researchers have uncovered a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that appears to be the handiwork of a threat group specializing in attacks against government and diplomatic targets. On Thursday, Cisco Talos researchers said the malware, dubbed ObliqueRAT, is being deployed in a new campaign focused on targets in Southeast Asia. The latest campaign started in January 2020 and ...
- SMS Attack Spreads Emotet, Steals Bank Credentials
February 19, 2020
Attackers are sending SMS messages purporting to be from victims’ banks – but once they click on the links in the text messages, they are asked to hand over their banking credentials and download a file that infects their systems with the Emotet malware. Emotet has continued to evolve since its return in September, including a new, ...
- Iran-Backed APTs Collaborate on 3-Year ‘Fox Kitten’ Global Spy Campaign
February 18, 2020
Two Iran-backed APTs could be working together on a sprawling, three-year campaign to compromise high-value organizations from the IT, telecom, oil and gas, aviation, government and security sectors in Israel and around the world, according to a report by researchers at ClearSky. They maintain, APT34/OilRig and APT33/Elfin appear to be linked to the campaign (which they ...
- Israeli soldiers tricked into installing malware by Hamas agents posing as women
February 17, 2020
Members of the Hamas Palestinian militant group have posed as young teenage girls to lure Israeli soldiers into installing malware-infected apps on their phones, a spokesperson for the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) said today. Some soldiers fell for the scam, but IDF said they detected the infections, tracked down the malware, and then took down Hamas’ ...
- LokiBot Impersonates Popular Game Launcher and Drops Compiled C# Code File
February 14, 2020
LokiBot, which has the ability to harvest sensitive data such as passwords as well as cryptocurrency information, proves that the actors behind it is invested in evolving the threat. In the past, we have seen a campaign that exploits a remote code execution vulnerability to deliver LokiBot using the Windows Installer service, a Lokibot variant that uses ISO ...
- US Cyber Command, DHS, and FBI expose new North Korean malware
February 14, 2020
US Cyber Command, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations have exposed today a new North Korean hacking operation. Authorities have published security advisories detailing six new malware families that are currently being used by North Korean hackers. According to the Twitter account of the Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), a subordinate unit ...