Didi Global has suspended preparations for its planned Hong Kong listing after failing to appease Chinese regulators’ demands that it overhaul its systems for handling sensitive user data, according to unnamed sources.
Lapsus$ ransomware gang announced they’re starting to recruit insiders employed within major technology giants and ISPs, such companies include Microsoft, Apple, EA Games, and IBM.
Security researchers at Cisco Talos are urging pro-Ukrainian actors to be wary of downloading DDoS tools to attack Russia, as they may be booby-trapped with info-stealing malware.
Conti extorted an estimated $180m last year, making it the most lucrative ransomware operation of 2021, according to the latest Crypto Crime Report from security shop Chainanysis.
The messages generally contain brief text content, followed by a link to download a zip archive. These links may be “bare URLs” like above, or hot-linked text in the message body.
Software firm HelpSystems continues on its cybersecurity buying spree, announcing on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Alert Logic, a provider of managed detection and response (MDR) services.
The notoriety of the Conti ransomware group has come under the spotlight as the CISA shared an alert with IoCs consisting of close to 100 domain names. Organizations should follow mitigation strategies and recommendations provided in the alert. Besides, security admins can use provided IOCs for better detection of threats.
Avast researchers came across a stealer, called Raccoon Stealer, a name given to it by its author. Raccoon Stealer uses the Telegram infrastructure to store and update actual C&C addresses.
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor MuddyWater has been attributed to a new swarm of attacks targeting Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula with the goal of deploying RATs on compromised systems.
The notorious hacker group, calling itself “Lapsus$,” claims to have obtained roughly 200 Gb of source code files, allegedly representing approximately 5,000 GitHub repositories.