Deep Analysis of Snake Keylogger’s New Variant

Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs recently caught a phishing campaign in the wild with a malicious Excel document attached to the phishing email. Fortinet researchers performed a deep analysis on the campaign and discovered that it delivers a new variant of Snake Read More …

UK: Staff details stolen in poultry factory cyber attack

Staff at a poultry factory in Norfolk have had their personal details stolen in a cyber attack. Banham Poultry, based in Attleborough, said criminals had remotely accessed its system in the early hours of 18 August. In an email sent Read More …

Interpol busts Black Axe global crime network, arrest over 300

The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) Police units had in a coordinated action in 21 countries between April and July 2024 arrested over 300 people with links to Nigerian criminal group Black Axe and other affiliated groups. In a statement, Read More …

Hunters International ransomware gang threatens to leak US Marshals data

The Hunters International ransomware group is threatening to leak what it claims to be 386 GB of data from the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), more than a year after the federal law enforcement agency suffered a major ransomware attack. The Read More …

HZ Rat backdoor for macOS attacks users of China’s DingTalk and WeChat

In June 2024, Kaspersky discovered a macOS version of the HZ Rat backdoor targeting users of the enterprise messenger DingTalk and the social network and messaging platform WeChat. The samples Kaspersky found almost exactly replicate the functionality of the Windows Read More …

Ransomware attacks on schools threaten student data nationwide

Imagine a criminal gaining unrestricted access to your child’s most private information — medical records, Social Security numbers and even details about their daily bus ride to school. This alarming scenario is becoming a reality for a growing number of Read More …

Laybuy collapsed after unreported cyber attack

A Klarna rival collapsed into bankruptcy after millions of pounds was stolen in a cyber attack. The collapse of Laybuy, a buy now, pay later (BNPL) start-up, followed a previously unreported hacking between December and February that left the business on Read More …

Port of Seattle says it was hit with possible cyberattack; outage affects airport, phone systems

The Port of Seattle said Saturday it was hit with a “possible cyberattack” that impacted Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, phone systems, and websites. The outage was first reported Saturday morning just after 9 a.m. PT, described as an “internet and web Read More …