Hackers who breached casino giants MGM, Caesars also hit 3 other firms, Okta says

Hackers who breached casino giants MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment in recent weeks also broke into the systems of three other companies in the manufacturing, retail, and technology space, a security executive familiar with the matter said. David Bradbury, Read More …

RedLine/Vidar Abuses EV Certificates, Shifts to Ransomware

Trend Micro researchers have been observing malware families RedLine and Vidar since the middle of 2022, when both were used by threat actors to target victims via spear-phishing scams. Earlier this year, RedLine targeted the hospitality industry with its info Read More …

FIN8 Uses Revamped Sardonic Backdoor to Deliver Noberus Ransomware

Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team, a part of Broadcom, recently observed the Syssphinx (aka FIN8) cyber-crime group deploying a variant of the Sardonic backdoor to deliver the Noberus ransomware. While analysis of the backdoor revealed it to be part of the Read More …

Crown Resorts confirms ransom demand after GoAnywhere breach

Crown Resorts, Australia’s largest gambling and entertainment company, has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after its GoAnywhere secure file-sharing server was breached using a zero-day vulnerability. The Blackstone-owned company has an annual revenue that surpasses $8 billion and Read More …

Managed XDR Exposes Spear-Phishing Campaign Targeting Hospitality Industry Using RedLine Stealer

Recently, Trend Micro researchers noticed a spike in the number of emails received by one of our customers. After further investigation, they found that three other customers in the hospitality industry were also affected. The researchers observed that most of Read More …

Holiday Inn-owner IHG hit by ‘unauthorised activity’ in tech systems

Holiday Inn owner IHG said on Tuesday that bookings on its websites and apps were facing disruptions after its technology systems were hit by “unauthorised activity”. IHG said it was assessing the nature, extent and impact of the incident and Read More …

Dutch newspaper accuses US spy agencies of orchestrating 2016 Booking.com breach

Jointly US-Dutch owned Booking.com was illegally accessed by an American attacker in 2016 – and the company failed to tell anyone when it became aware of what happened, according to explosive revelations. The alleged miscreant, named as “Andrew”, is said Read More …

Adventures in MQTT Part II: Identifying MQTT Brokers in the Wild

The use of publicly accessible MQTT brokers is prevalent across numerous verticals and technology fields. I was able to identify systems related to energy production, hospitality, finance, healthcare, pharmaceutical manufacturing, building management, surveillance, workplace safety, vehicle fleet management, shipping, construction, Read More …