The activity related to the campaign was first observed in November 2020 when reports of Japan-linked organizations being targeted in 17 regions across the world emerged.
The threat actors seem to be targeting repositories that have GitHub Actions enabled in order to be able to add malicious Actions and fill Pull Requests aimed at executing malicious attacker code.
Several weeks ago, the Conti ransomware gang targeted Broward County Public Schools and threatened to leak sensitive personal data of students and staff unless the district paid a $40 million ransom.
If your applications are leveraging a distributed delivery model, for example leveraging cloud-based services such as content delivery networks (CDNs), then you have to worry less about DDoS attacks.
In the nebula of Chinese-speaking threat actors, it is quite common to see tools and methodologies being shared. One such example of this is the infamous DLL side-loading triad.
The company will spend some time to fully restore the operations and continue the vehicle inspections. According to the DMV, inspections will likely be suspended at least for another couple of days.
The principle of end-to-end encryption underpins a system of communication where only the communicating users can read the messages, thereby preventing any eavesdropping.
Researchers detected the execution of PowerShell scripts that were delivering the ransomware within memory without any executable on disk. It used paste.ee for delivering the loader and ransomware.
Asteelflash, a leading French electronics manufacturing services company, has suffered a cyberattack by the REvil ransomware operators who is demanding a $24 million ransom.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today issued a joint advisory warning admins of active exploits targeting three vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS.