Month: February 2022

A new custom malware dubbed SockDetour found on systems belonging to US defense contractors has been used as a backup backdoor to maintain access to compromised networks. […]

The new data wiper malware deployed on Ukrainian networks in destructive attacks on Wednesday right before Russia invaded Ukraine earlier today was, in some cases, accompanied by a GoLang-based ransomware decoy. […]

A malware named Electron Bot has found its way into Microsoft’s Official Store through clones of popular games such as Subway Surfer and Temple Run, leading to the infection of 5,000 computers in Sweden, Israel, Spain, and Bermuda. […]

A report released today dives deep into technical aspects of a Linux backdoor now tracked as Bvp47 that is linked to the Equation Group, the advanced persistent threat actor tied to the U.S. National Security Agency. […]

A Crowdstrike report looking into access brokers’ advertisements since 2019 has identified a preference in academic, government, and technology entities based in the United States. […]

Cybersecurity firms have found a new data wiper used in destructive attacks today against Ukrainian networks just as Russia moves troops into regions of Ukraine. […]

A global survey that looked into the experience of ransomware victims highlights the lack of trustworthiness of ransomware actors, as in most cases of paying the ransom, the extortion simply continues. […]

A devious new phishing technique allows attackers to bypass MFA by secretly having victims log in to their accounts directly on attacker-controlled servers using VNC. […]