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The formjacking attack has been one of the fastest-growing cyberattacks in recent years. As explained in our previous blog, “Anatomy of Formjacking Attacks,” the formjacking attack is easy to deploy but hard to detect. It has gained popularity among threat Read More …
Guildma, a threat actor that is part of the Tétrade family of banking trojans, has been working on bringing in new techniques, creating new malware and targeting new victims. Recently, their new creation, the Ghimob banking trojan, has been a Read More …
The Joker malware has consistently plagued mobile users since its discovery in 2017. In January 2020, Google removed 1700 infected applications from the Play Store — a list that grew over three years. More recently, in September, security company Zscaler Read More …
Compal, a Taiwanese electronics company that builds laptops for some of the world’s largest computer brands such as Apple, Acer, Lenovo, Dell, Toshiba, HP, and Fujitsu, suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend. Responsible for the breach is believed to Read More …
The xHunt campaign has been active since at least July 2018 and we have seen this group target Kuwait government and shipping and transportation organizations. Recently, we observed evidence that the threat actors compromised a Microsoft Exchange Server at an Read More …
E-commerce software vendor X-Cart suffered a ransomware attack at the end of October that brought down customer stores hosted on the company’s hosting platform. The incident is believed to have taken place after attackers exploited a vulnerability in a third-party Read More …
A new form of malware is targeting Linux servers and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and adding them to a botnet in what appears to be the first stage of a hacking campaign targeting cloud computing infrastructure – although the Read More …
As security practitioners, Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers spend a lot of time focusing on the threat actors and malware families that leverage the most impactful exploits or affect the highest number of victims. But what happens when a threat Read More …
Kaspersky researchers have recently discovered a new file-encrypting Trojan built as an ELF executable and intended to encrypt data on machines controlled by Linux-based operating systems. After the initial analysis we noticed similarities in the code of the Trojan, the Read More …
The US Justice Department says it’s seized $1bn in bitcoin allegedly stolen by a hacker from Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht before his arrest for running the dark-web market. Announcing the bitcoin seizure from the unnamed hacker, the Department of Read More …