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The FBI has received multiple reports of cyber criminals increasingly targeting healthcare payment processors to redirect victim payments. In each of these reports, unknown cyber criminals used employees’ publicly-available Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and social engineering techniques to impersonate victims Read More …
Security researchers have developed an implementation of the Sysinternals PsExec utility that allows moving laterally in a network using a single, less monitored port, Windows TCP port 135. PsExec is designed to help administrators execute processes remotely on machines in Read More …
Cisco has confirmed that the data leaked yesterday by the Yanluowang ransomware gang was stolen from the company network during a cyberattack in May. However, the company says in an update that the leak does not change the initial assessment Read More …
AT&T cybersecurity researchers have discovered a sneaky piece of malware targeting Linux endpoints and IoT devices in the hopes of gaining persistent access and turning victims into crypto-mining drones. The malware was dubbed “Shikitega” for its extensive use of the Read More …
A growing number of ransomware groups are adopting a new tactic that helps them encrypt their victims’ systems faster while reducing the chances of being detected and stopped. This tactic is called intermittent encryption, and it consists of encrypting only Read More …
A sovereign Russian internet could lead to cyber criminal safe havens, greater confidence that large-scale attacks can be carried out without consequences, and intelligence blindspots, according to a new report published today by cyber risk analytics expert CyberCube. The research Read More …
For the first time in five years of observations, the lowest percentage in the first half of the year was observed in March. During the period from January to March, the percentage of attacked ICS computers decreased by 1.7 p.p. Read More …
Criminals are cashing in on the energy crisis by offering bogus rebates to try and trick victims into handing over bank account details. Police say in the past fortnight they’ve had nearly 1,600 reports of suspicious emails with links to Read More …
Cisco Talos has discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT), which we are calling “MagicRAT,” that we are attributing with moderate to high confidence to the Lazarus threat actor, a state-sponsored APT attributed to North Korea by the U.S. Cyber Read More …
This joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ransomware variants and ransomware threat actors. These #StopRansomware advisories include recently and historically observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) Read More …