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SMSFactory Android malware sneakily subscribes to premium services

Security researchers are warning of an Android malware named SMSFactory that adds unwanted costs to the phone bill by subscribing victims to premium services. […]

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

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). […]

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SMSFactory Android malware sneakily subscribes to premium services

The Week in Ransomware – June 3rd 2022 – Evading sanctions

Novartis says no sensitive data was compromised in cyberattack

WatchDog hacking group launches new Docker cryptojacking campaign

Atlassian fixes Confluence zero-day widely exploited in attacks

Americans report losing over $1 billion to cryptocurrency scams

Microsoft disrupts Bohrium hackers’ spear-phishing operation

Critical Atlassian Confluence zero-day actively used in attacks

Top 10 Android banking trojans target apps with 1 billion downloads

Evil Corp switches to LockBit ransomware to evade sanctions