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A new and powerful malware named ‘Mars Stealer’ has appeared in the wild, and appears to be a redesign of the Oski malware that shut down development abruptly in the summer of 2020. Mars Stealer is an information-stealing malware that Read More …
A cyberattack on two German oil suppliers has forced energy giant Shell to reroute oil supplies to other depots, according to Reuters and the Handelsblatt newspaper. Handelsblatt was the first to report on Monday that oil companies Oiltanking and Mabanaft, Read More …
The FBI is warning entities associated with the February 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and March 2022 Paralympics that cyber actors could use a broad range of cyber activities to disrupt these events. These activities include distributed denial of service (DDoS) Read More …
The French government is investigating claims from the LockBit ransomware gang that data was stolen from the Ministry of Justice. “The French Ministry of Justice is aware of the alert and has immediately taken actions to proceed to the needed Read More …
Taiwanese network-attached storage giant QNAP urged its customers to update their systems this week after the DeadBolt ransomware was discovered targeting all NAS instances exposed to the internet. “QNAP urges all QNAP NAS users to follow the security setting instructions Read More …
A new .NET malware packer being used to deliver a variety of remote access trojans (RATs) and infostealers has a fixed password named after Donald Trump, giving the new find its name, “DTPacker.” DTPacker was discovered by researchers at Proofpoint Read More …
While monitoring of the LockBit ransomware’s intrusion set, Trend Micro researchers found an announcement for LockBit Linux-ESXi Locker version 1.0 on October 2021 in the underground forum “RAMP,” where potential affiliates can find it. This signifies the LockBit ransomware group’s Read More …
Since December 2021, a growing trend in phishing campaigns has emerged that uses malicious PowerPoint documents to distribute various types of malware, including remote access and information-stealing trojans. According to a report by Netskope’s Threat Labs shared with Bleeping Computer Read More …
A man found guilty of using the Coinhive cryptojacking script to mine Monero on users’ PCs while they browsed the web has been cleared by Japan’s Supreme Court on the grounds that crypto mining software is not malware. Tokyo High Read More …
Indonesia’s central bank said on Thursday that it had been attacked last month by ransomware, but the risk from the attack had been mitigated and did not affect its public services. “We were attacked, but so far so good as Read More …