Scammers coordinating these attacks are also actively attempting to convince potential victims to install remote administration and desktop sharing software to steal the targets’ banking information.
A group of U.S. intelligence agencies on Tuesday formally accused Russia of being linked to the recently discovered hack of IT group SolarWinds that compromised much of the federal government.
Researchers at Morphisec Labs have published fresh details about a malware variant called JSSLoaderwritten in the .NET language, that the FIN7 hacking group has used for several years.
Over 500,000 stolen credentials tied to the top 25 gaming firms were found on caches of breached data online and up for sale at criminal marketplaces, according to researchers at Kela.
T-Mobile reported a breach that compromised customer data, the company’s fourth in three years, raises questions about whether its massive merger with Sprint left the combined company more vulnerable.
It wasn’t the best of New Year’s Day mornings for some Check Point customers; in addition to possible hangovers, those who lagged with their patching had been left with inoperable systems.
Egregor ransomware operators who breached its network at the beginning of December 2020 also accessed and potentially stole employees’ banking and social security information.
An attack method called unCaptcha discovered in 2017 for defeating the audio version of Google’s reCAPTCHA system using speech-to-text services has once again been resurrected.
Unless resilience starts to be factored into the considerations of complex logistical networks behind the global economy, disruption to supply chains will remain a significant operational risk factor.
In a blog post last month, Xavier Mertens, a security researcher with the SANS Internet Storm Center, said he discovered a new malware strain that is using WiFi BSSID for victim identification.