More than 100,000 hackers have details exposed through malware on cyber crime forums

Researchers have revealed that more than 100,000 hackers could be operating on compromised devices due to their involvement on cyber crime forums. A study from Hudson Rock identified around 120,000 devices infected with malware that contained login credentials for cyber Read More …

Clorox says certain business operations disrupted in cyber attack

Clorox said on Monday it had taken certain systems offline after unauthorized activity disrupted some business operations. It said it was implementing workarounds for certain offline operations in order to continue servicing its customers and had engaged third-party cybersecurity experts Read More …

Russian and Chinese cyber attack on Foreign Office was kept secret from public

Hackers from Russia and China infiltrated the Foreign Office’s emails and internal messages without the public’s knowledge, it has been revealed. The major security breach meant cyber attackers were able to see the day-to-day business of the government department in Read More …

Connecticut city loses $6 million in multiple cyber attacks on public school district, manages to recoup half

The city of New Haven lost more than $6 million in multiple cyberattacks on its public school district earlier this summer and has so far managed to recoup about half of the money, officials announced Thursday. The thefts, which occurred Read More …

Unknown actor targets power generator with DroxiDat and Cobalt Strike

Recently Kaspersky pushed a report about an interesting and common component of the cybercrime malware set – SystemBC. And, in much the same vein as the 2021 Darkside Colonial Pipeline incident, they found a new SystemBC variant deployed to a Read More …

Attacker combines phone, email lures into believable, complex attack chain

  In the course of performing a postmortem investigation of an infected computer, Sophos X-Ops discovered that the attack began with an innocent-sounding phone call. The caller prompted an employee of a Switzerland-based organization to initiate a complex attack chain Read More …

JanelaRAT: Repurposed BX Rat Variant Targeting LATAM FinTech

In June of 2023, researchers at Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered a threat actor targeting FinTech users in the LATAM region. JanelaRAT involves several tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) such as DLL side-loading, dynamic C2 infrastructure, and a multi-stage attack. The final Read More …

Common TTPs of attacks against industrial organizations

In 2022 Kaspersky investigated a series of attacks against industrial organizations in Eastern Europe. In the campaigns, the attackers aimed to establish a permanent channel for data exfiltration, including data stored on air-gapped systems. Based on similarities found between these Read More …

Germany says Charming Kitten hackers target Iran dissidents

Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) on Thursday warned critics of the Iranian leadership living in Germany that they might be targeted by hackers. The agency said the Charming Kitten online espionage group works by building Read More …