Malware

09 Jan

If governments are banning TikTok, why is it still on your corporate devices?

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

TikTok, the viral app resident on millions of devices, was recently banned from executive branch devices in the United States, as set out in in the recent Omnibus Bill signed by President Joe Biden. The Omnibus Bill, as detailed in CSO Online’s overview, highlighted that the “legislation required the Office of Management and Budget in consultation with the administrator of general services, the director of CISA, the director of national intelligence, and the secretary of…

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09 Jan

11 top XDR tools and how to evaluate them

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Little in the modern IT world lends itself to manual or siloed management, and this is doubly true in the security realm. The scale of modern enterprise computing and modern application stack architecture requires security tools that can bring visibility into the security posture of modern IT components and integrate tightly to bring real-time threat detection, possibly even automating aspects of threat mitigation. This need has given rise to extended detection and response (XDR) tools.…

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06 Jan

SpyNote Android Malware Infections Surge Following Leak of CypherRat Source Code

Attacks, Malware

While no official statement has been released as to how the malware variants are spreading, it can be assumed that these are likely spreading through phishing campaigns and malicious websites. From an enterprise level, the best course of action to take to prevent against this malware would be to educate end users on the best practices to take when browsing the internet, to verify application legitimacy, and to read application reviews prior to installation. Applications…

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06 Jan

Bitdefender Releases Decryptor for MegaCortex Ransomware

Attacks, Malware

MegaCortex was first discovered in 2019 and was observed targeting corporate network with attacks that included adjustable ransom demands based on the companies that were attacked and the amount of data stolen. In October 2021, officials arrested 12 individuals related to thousands of MegaCortex and LockerGoga ransomware attacks. Along with the arrests, authorities discovered the private keys used in attacks, which lead to Bitdefender releasing the decryptor for the LockerGoga ransomware. Bitdefender did not release…

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06 Jan

Rackspace: Customer Email Data Accessed in Ransomware Attack

Attacks, Malware

Since discovering the attack on December 2 and confirming the resulting outage was caused by a ransomware attack, Rackspace has been offering affected customers free licenses to migrate their email from its Hosted Exchange platform to Microsoft 365. The cloud computing provider also provided affected customers with download links to recovered historic mailbox data (containing email messages before December 2) through its customer portal via an automated queue. Rackspace added that its Hosted Exchange environment…

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06 Jan

Many of 13 New Mac Malware Families Discovered in 2022 Linked to China

Information, Malware, News

More than a dozen new Mac malware families were discovered in 2022, including information stealers, cryptocurrency miners, loaders, and backdoors, and many of them have been linked to China. Mac security expert Patrick Wardle has compiled a list of the macOS malware that came to light over the course of last year. The number of new malware appears to be increasing as only eight new families were spotted in 2021. The first malware to emerge…

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06 Jan

14 UK schools suffer cyberattack, highly confidential documents leaked

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

More than a dozen schools in the UK have suffered a cyberattack which has led to highly confidential documents being leaked online by cybercriminals. That’s according to a report from the BBC which claimed that children’s SEN information, child passport scans, staff pay scales and contract details have been stolen by notorious cybercrime group Vice Society, known for disproportionately targeting the education sector with ransomware attacks in the UK and other countries. Passport, contract data…

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06 Jan

Twitter’s mushrooming data breach crisis could prove costly

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Since Elon Musk purchased Twitter in late October, non-stop turmoil and controversy have dogged the company, from massive staff firings and resignations to reputational damage from Musk’s careless and often bizarre tweets. Now, mushrooming concern around a possible data breach stemming from a now-fixed Twitter flaw is poised to drive the company further down unless Twitter takes quick action. Even as regulators in Europe begin to probe what appears to be a massive Twitter data…

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05 Jan

Banking Trojan apocalypse: how hackers are stealing millions

Malware

Several weeks ago, I received a phone call from my friend who is a business owner and works in the cargo industry. He informed me that US$24,000 had vanished from his bank account during the previous night. The bank customer care team could not assist and suggested that my friend file a report with the police. The funds were transferred using a mobile app. The transaction was verified via a text message and appeared to…

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05 Jan

Attackers create 130K fake accounts to abuse limited-time cloud computing resources

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

A group of attackers is running a cryptomining operation that leverages the free or trial-based cloud computing resources and platforms offered by several service providers including GitHub,  Heroku, and Togglebox. The operation is highly automated using CI/CD processes and involves the creation of tens of thousands of fake accounts and the use of stolen or fake credit cards to activate time-limited trials. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have dubbed the group Automated Libra…

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