Exploiting a vulnerable Minifilter Driver to create a process killer Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2024 Researcher demonstrated how to exploit a signed Minifilter Driver in a BYOVD attack to terminate a specific process from the kernel. Exploiting a signed Minifilter Driver that can be used to used the BYOVD attack technique to a program able […]
Incident response (IR) is a race against time. You engage your internal or external team because there’s enough evidence that something bad is happening, but you’re still blind to the scope, the impact, and the root cause. The common set of IR tools and practices provides IR teams with the ability to discover malicious files […]
Dive Brief: Ransomware attacks inflicted more financial damage and hit more companies last year than ever before, according to Unit 42 and Chanalysis research. Victim organizations paid a collective $1.1 billion in ransom demands in 2023, the largest amount ever recorded, Chainalysis said in a Wednesday report on financially-motivated criminal activity in cryptocurrency exchanges. Threat […]
The FCC has revealed the unanimous adoption of a Declaratory Ruling that recognizes calls made with AI-generated voices are “artificial” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The ruling, which takes effect immediately, makes voice cloning technology used in common robocall scams targeting consumers illegal. This would give State Attorneys General across the country new […]
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Malware as-a-Service 2 Men Arrested in Malta, Nigeria for Hawking Malware on Hacking Forums Since 2012 Cal Harrison • February 9, 2024 Image: Shutterstock Federal authorities have seized internet domains and arrested two men in Malta and Nigeria who they say served as sales and customer […]
The bug affected versions 12.23.1 – 12.72.0 of ExpressVPN for Windows and allowed some DNS requests to bypass ExpressVPN’s server, potentially exposing users’ browsing history.
Feb 12, 2024NewsroomOperating System / Technology Microsoft said it’s introducing Sudo for Windows 11 as part of an early preview version to help users execute commands with administrator privileges. “Sudo for Windows is a new way for users to run elevated commands directly from an unelevated console session,” Microsoft Product Manager Jordi Adoumie said. “It […]
The U.S. Department of State has announced monetary rewards of up to $10 million for information about individuals holding key positions within the Hive ransomware operation. It is also giving away an additional $5 million for specifics that could lead to the arrest and/or conviction of any person “conspiring to participate in or attempting to […]
Feb 11, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cybercrime The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) on Friday announced the seizure of online infrastructure that was used to sell a remote access trojan (RAT) called Warzone RAT. The domains – www.warzone[.]ws and three others – were “used to sell computer malware used by cybercriminals to secretly access and steal data from […]