- Denonia malware targets AWS Lambda environments
April 6, 2022
A new malware variant that targets AWS Lambda has been discovered. On Wednesday, researchers from Cado Security published their findings on Denonia, malware currently being used in targeted attacks against Lambda. Lambda is a scalable compute service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for running code, server and OS maintenance, capacity provisioning, logging, and operating numerous backend ...
- Borat RAT: Multiple threat of ransomware, DDoS and spyware
April 4, 2022
A new remote access trojan (RAT) dubbed “Borat” doesn’t come with many laughs but offers bad actors a menu of cyberthreats to choose from. RATs are typically used by cybercriminals to get full control of a victim’s system, enabling them to access files and network resources and manipulate the mouse and keyboard. Borat does all this ...
- Modem-wiping malware caused Viasat satellite broadband outage in Europe
April 1, 2022
Tens of thousands of Viasat satellite broadband modems that were disabled in a cyber-attack some weeks ago were wiped by malware with possible links to Russia’s destructive VPNFilter, according to SentinelOne. On February 24, as Russian troops invaded Ukraine, Viasat terminals in Europe and Ukraine were suddenly and unexpectedly knocked offline and rendered inoperable. This caused, ...
- Lazarus Trojanized DeFi app for delivering malware
March 31, 2022
For the Lazarus threat actor, financial gain is one of the prime motivations, with a particular emphasis on the cryptocurrency business. As the price of cryptocurrency surges, and the popularity of non-fungible token (NFT) and decentralized finance (DeFi) businesses continues to swell, the Lazarus group’s targeting of the financial industry keeps evolving. We recently discovered a ...
- Meet BlackGuard: a new infostealer peddled on Russian hacker forums
March 31, 2022
Researchers have uncovered a new infostealer malware being peddled in Russian underground forums. Dubbed BlackGuard, zScaler says that the new malware strain is “sophisticated” and has been made available to criminal buyers for a monthly price of $200. Infostealers are forms of malware designed to harvest valuable data, potentially including operating system information, contact lists, screenshots, network ...
- IcedID malware, in the hijacked email thread, with the insecure Exchange servers
March 29, 2022
Cyber-criminals are using compromised Microsoft Exchange servers to spam out emails designed to infect people’s PCs with IcedID. IcedID is bad news because if you’re tricked into running it, it opens a backdoor allowing further malware, such as ransomware, to be injected into your system. Marks typically receive an encrypted .zip as an attachment, with the ...
- China APT group using Russia invasion, COVID-19 in phishing attacks
March 28, 2022
A China-based threat group is likely running a month-long campaign using a variant of the Korplug malware and targeting European diplomats, internet service providers (ISPs) and research institutions via phishing lures that refer to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and COVID-19 travel restrictions. The ongoing campaign was first seen in August 2021 and is being tied to ...
- TRITON Malware Remains Threat to Global Critical Infrastructure Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
March 24, 2022
The FBI is warning that the group responsible for the deployment of TRITON malware against a Middle East–based petrochemical plant’s safety instrumented system in 2017, the Russian Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics (TsNIIKhM), continues to conduct activity targeting the global energy sector. This warning follows the 24 March 2022 unsealing of a ...
- Lockbit wins ransomware speed test, encrypts 25,000 files per minute
March 23, 2022
Ransomware moves more quickly than most organizations can respond. Though knowing they have a specific limited window should help inform where to put their defenses, according to security data shop Splunk. The vendor’s research team Surge today published research on how long it takes 10 of the big ransomware families including Lockbit, Conti, and REvil to ...
- Android app with 100,000 downloads contained password-stealing malware, say security researchers
March 22, 2022
Google has removed an app with over 1000,000 downloads from its Play Store after security researchers warned that the app was able to harvest the Facebook credentials of smartphone users. Researchers at French mobile security firm Pradeo said the app embeds Android trojan malware known as “Facestealer” because it dupes victims into typing in their Facebook ...