Among the game titles abused for adware distribution purposes are Elden Ring, ROBLOX, Dark Souls 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, Need for Speed, Call of Duty, Portal 2, Minecraft, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, and more.
The attackers compromised one of the company systems and had access to the emails and documents of some employees. Initial investigation into the hack revealed that the attack was carried out by a nation-state actor for cyber espionage purposes.
The widespread outage affects Dish.com, Dish Anywhere app as well as several websites and networks owned by the corporation. Customers also suggest the company’s call center phone numbers are unreachable.
Gartner research shows that compliance-centric cybersecurity programs, low executive support, and subpar industry-level maturity are all indicators of an organization that does not view security risk management as critical to business success.
The suspects, all young men aged between 18 and 21, are charged with stealing sensitive data from victim networks and demanding a ransom. It is believed that they attacked thousands of companies.
A previously unseen threat group, dubbed Hydrochasma, was found targeting medical labs and shipping companies in Asia in a cyberespionage campaign that started in October 2022. It did not employ any custom malware but instead heavily relied on publicly available and living-off-the-land tools. So far, hackers have not been observed exfiltrating any data.
Just 10% of ransomware victims pay their extorters, but those who do are effectively funding 6-10 new attacks, Trend Micro has warned. Given the low numbers who do pay, they’re generally being forced to stump up more cash per compromise.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging organizations and individuals to increase their cyber vigilance, as Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine officially enters one year.
Cyberattacks targeting multiple data centers in several regions globally have been observed over the past year and a half, resulting in the exfiltration of information pertaining to some of the world’s biggest companies.
Latest report by Cyware, along with Cyber Security Works (CSW), Ivanti, and Securin, stated that out of 344 total threats detected in 2022, 56 new vulnerabilities were associated with ransomware threats. Attackers can leverage kill chains to exploit these bugs across 81 unique products. The Log4Shell flaw affects around 176 products from 21 vendors, including […]