A new analysis of the Android banking trojan known as Hook has revealed that it’s based on its predecessor called ERMAC. “The ERMAC source code was used as a base for Hook,” NCC Group security researchers Joshua Kamp and Alberto Segura said in a technical analysis published last week. “All commands (30 in total) that […]
Landmark venue has been shut since December Brixton Academy can re-open if it meets a lengthy list conditions, Lambeth Council has decided after a two day hearing into the venue’s future. The famous music venue has been shut since a fatal crowd crush at an Asake gig in December last year left one audience member […]
Trucking and fleet management solutions provider ORBCOMM has confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind recent service outages preventing trucking companies from managing their fleets.
Russian hacker Dariy Pankov has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and now faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison, according to an announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Pankov, who was extradited from the Eastern European country of Georgia earlier this year, was charged with developing and selling a piece of malware […]
Multiple prominent government ministries in Colombia are responding to a ransomware attack that is forcing officials to make significant operational changes. This week, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, the country’s Judiciary Branch and the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce announced that a cyberattack on technology provider IFX Networks Colombia had caused a range […]
Search giant Google agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state of California on Thursday over its location-privacy practices. The settlement follows a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states, reached in November 2022, to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations. The states’ investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press […]
The US Department of Defense (DoD) this week published an unclassified summary of its 2023 Cyber Strategy, outlining plans for both offensive and defensive efforts. One key focus of the 2023 Cyber Strategy is the commitment to boost the cyber capabilities of allies and partners, and to increase collective resilience against cyberattacks. This includes augmenting […]
The BlackCat ransomware gang, suspected to be a rebrand of DarkSide/BlackMatter, has been using stolen Microsoft accounts and a new variant of the Sphynx encryptor to target Azure cloud storage.
The U.S. needs a national cybersecurity alert system that would provide actionable information on threats and risks, according to a panel that advises the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Without specifying what such a system would look like or how it would behave, the panel found that “there is a genuine need for a […]