While the attackers deployed cryptominers in the compromised cloud environments, the hackers showed advanced expertise in AWS cloud mechanics, which they used to burrow further into the company’s cloud infrastructure.
Scammers manipulate search engine business listings, bid for digital ads displaying fake numbers, and place phishing links in the comment section of websites like Quora or business ratings to trap customers into calling phony customer care numbers.
On Tuesday, Google made client-side encryption available to a limited set of Gmail and Calendar users in a move designed to give them more control over who sees sensitive communications and schedules.
Security researchers at Quarkslab have identified a pair of serious security defects in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 reference library specification, prompting a massive cross-vendor effort to identify and patch vulnerable installations.
Over the weekend, an attacker was found uploading thousands of malicious Python packages to the public PyPI software repository. If executed on a Windows system, these packages will download and install a Trojan program hosted on Dropbox.
“Certain data was extracted,” the company said in a statement Tuesday. The acknowledgment is an evolution from last week’s earnings call, where it was described as an “internal outage.”
In 2022, Trend Micro researchers noticed that they updated SysUpdate, one of their custom malware families, to include new features and add malware infection support for the Linux platform.
Researchers from FortiGuard Labs observed a new LockBit ransomware campaign during December 2022 and January 2023 using a combination of techniques effective against AV and EDR solutions.
Parallax RAT, besides gathering system metadata, is also capable of accessing data stored in the clipboard and even remotely rebooting or shutting down the compromised machine.
A new decryptor for the MortalKombat ransomware is now available for download. Bitdefender has been monitoring the MortalKombat ransomware family since it first appeared online in January this year.