Month: November 2019

The advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked by Microsoft as Platinum is using a new stealthy backdoor malware dubbed Titanium to infiltrate and take control of their targets’ systems. […]

A clever spam campaign is underway that pretends to be a WebEx meeting invite and uses a Cisco open redirect that pushes a Remote Access Trojan to the recipient.  Using open redirects add legitimacy to spam URLs and increases the chances that victims will click on an URL. […]

Crowdsourced security company Bugcrowd announced today that it paid over $500K ($513,333)​​​​​​​ to 237 whitehat hackers in a single week for the first time since launching its bug bounty platform more than seven years ago. […]

Network-attached storage (NAS) maker QNAP urges customers to secure their NAS devices against an ongoing malicious campaign that infects them with QSnatch malware capable of stealing user credentials. […]

Threat actors abused the legitimate Keitaro Traffic Direction System (TDS) to drive traffic to malware pushing RIG and Fallout exploit kits as part of both malvertising and malspam campaigns. […]

Attackers are always looking for new tricks to distribute malware without them being detected by antivirus scanners and secure email gateways. This was illustrated in a new phishing campaign that utilized a specially crafted ZIP file that was designed to bypass secure email gateways to distribute the NanoCore RAT. […]