The City of London Police on Friday disclosed that it has charged two of the seven teenagers, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, who were arrested last week for their alleged connections to the LAPSUS$ data extortion gang.

A previously unknown Android malware has been linked by the researchers to the Turla hacking group after discovering the app used infrastructure previously attributed to the threat actors.

Google TAG found multiple cybercriminal activities, such as phishing and malware attacks, targeting NATO and Eastern European countries. An APT group adopted a novel Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) phishing technique. A group with alleged links to China targeted government and military organizations in Russia, Ukraine, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan.

A threat actor was spotted employing a sophisticated crypto-mining malware, dubbed Verblecon, on systems to steal access tokens for Discord chat app users. There are reports that connect a Verblecon domain to a ransomware attack as well. Organizations are recommended to use up-to-date and reliable anti-malware.

Hive ransomware actors ported its Linux encryptor to Rust programming language to target VMware ESXi servers. Additionally, they have added new features to make it difficult for security researchers to snoop on victim’s ransom negotiations, which it appears to have copied from BlackCat. Organizations are advised focus on protecting sensitive data with robust encryption and […]

The disruption caused by the cyberattack affected Atento’s Brazil-based operations, resulting in a revenue loss of $34.8 million and an additional $7.3 million in costs related to mitigating the impact of the incident.

Russia is preparing disruptive cyberattacks that could target U.S. energy and financial industries to cause further pain to the Biden administration, in retaliation for heavy sanctions, several people familiar with the matter told Foreign Policy.

While examining alerts and telemetry, FortiGuard Labs noticed several infiltrations into victim networks that were achieved via Log4Shell exploitation of vulnerable VMware Horizon servers.

Russia-Ukraine conflict grew grimmer as researchers found three separate attack incidents of DDoS, malicious tools, and infrastructure disruption, that were launched against Ukraine. One of the attacks has hit the fixed-line telecommunications firm, Ukrtelecom. There could be more cyberattacks launched targeting Ukrainian entities. Government agencies and businesses are recommended to follow the CERT-UA advisory to […]