03 Jun The Week in Ransomware – June 3rd 2022 – Evading sanctions Ransomware gangs continue to evolve their operations as victims refuse to pay ransoms due to sanctions or other reasons. […]
03 Jun Novartis says no sensitive data was compromised in cyberattack Pharmaceutical giant Novartis says no sensitive data was compromised in a recent cyberattack by the Industrial Spy data-extortion gang. […]
03 Jun WatchDog hacking group launches new Docker cryptojacking campaign The WatchDog hacking group is conducting a new cryptojacking campaign with advanced techniques for intrusion, worm-like propagation, and evasion of security software. […]
03 Jun Atlassian fixes Confluence zero-day widely exploited in attacks Atlassian has released security updates to address a critical zero-day vulnerability in Confluence Server and Data Center actively exploited in the wild to backdoor Internet-exposed servers. […]
03 Jun Americans report losing over $1 billion to cryptocurrency scams The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says over 46,000 people Americans have reported losing more than $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency to scams between January 2021 and March 2022. […]
03 Jun Microsoft disrupts Bohrium hackers’ spear-phishing operation The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has disrupted a spear-phishing operation linked to an Iranian threat actor tracked as Bohrium that targeted customers in the U.S., Middle East, and India. […]
02 Jun Critical Atlassian Confluence zero-day actively used in attacks Hackers are actively exploiting a new Atlassian Confluence zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-26134 to install web shells, with no fix available at this time. […]
02 Jun Windows 10 KB5014023 update fixes slow copying, app crashes Microsoft has released optional cumulative update previews for Windows 10 versions 20H2, 21H1, and 21H2, with fixes for slow file copying and applications crashing due to Direct3D issues. […]
02 Jun Top 10 Android banking trojans target apps with 1 billion downloads The ten most prolific Android mobile banking trojans target 639 financial applications that collectively have over one billion downloads on the Google Play Store. […]
02 Jun Evil Corp switches to LockBit ransomware to evade sanctions The Evil Corp cybercrime group has now switched to deploying LockBit ransomware on targets’ networks to evade sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). […]