Cybersecurity researchers say a Chinese for-profit threat group tracked as 8220 Gang is targeting cloud providers and poorly secured applications with a custom-built crypto miner and IRC bot.

An international counter-ransomware task force first announced at a White House event in November officially commenced operations on Monday, according to the Australian government which is the inaugural chair of the group.

Exterro’s acquisition of Zapproved is the latest step in furthering Exterro’s vision to empower customers to proactively and defensibly manage their legal governance, risk, and compliance obligations.

The legitimate command-and-control (C2) framework known as Sliver is gaining more traction from threat actors as it emerges as an open-source alternative to Cobalt Strike and Metasploit.

Following the leak of the source code of the CrySIS/Dharma ransomware family, cybercriminals worldwide continue to spin variants of it and deliver them via phishing attacks masked as genuine software. To gain access to the victim’s machine, CrySIS/Dharma operators abuse exposed RDP servers and also attempt to infiltrate via phishing techniques.

Cybercriminals know that our time is tight and we’re not going to have a chance to carefully analyze every message which reaches our inbox – one of the reasons why phishing is still so successful.

Hackers are now spreading malware using Microsoft OneNote attachments in phishing emails, infecting victims using remote access malware that can be used to install additional malware, steal passwords, or even cryptocurrency wallets.

Researchers found a highly sophisticated scheme in which cybercriminals exploited the limited signal available to the verification partners in their targeted environment, including in-app advertising mainly on iOS.

BitKeep says it will compensate victims of a December 2022 hack that cost users $8 million. BitKeep says hacking victims will receive half their stolen funds by the end of February, with the remaining funds slated for payment by the end of March.