Cybersecurity
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Nov 11, 2023NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Cybercrime A sub-cluster within the infamous Lazarus Group has established new infrastructure that impersonates skills assessment portals as part of its social engineering campaigns. Microsoft attributed the activity to a threat actor it calls Sapphire Sleet, describing it as a “shift in the persistent actor’s tactics.” Sapphire Sleet, also called […]
Beware! Researchers are warning about a rise in crypto spam and scam messages that leverage the “Release scores” feature of Google Forms quizzes to deliver emails. These spam messages ask victims to invest in crypto or share their details. Here’s how it works According to Cisco Talos, spammers exploit Google Forms to create quizzes and […]
The attackers are targeting healthcare organizations in the U.S. using local ScreenConnect instances used by Transaction Data Systems (TDS), a pharmacy supply chain and management systems solution provider.
Nov 10, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a stealthy backdoor named Effluence that’s deployed following the successful exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. “The malware acts as a persistent backdoor and is not remediated by applying patches to Confluence,” Aon’s Stroz Friedberg Incident […]
A cyberattack continued to affect operations at Tri-City Medical Center more than 24 hours after it began Thursday morning. In a short statement sent Friday afternoon, hospital management said that it has temporarily halted all elective medical procedures as it works “to restore our systems to full functionality,” after taking its information systems offline when […]
After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2023 After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down the website of Cloudflare. Cloudflare confirmed that a DDoS attack took […]
Overview In 2022, NSFOCUS Research Labs revealed a large-scale APT attack campaign called DarkCasino and identified an active and dangerous aggressive threat actor. By continuously tracking and in-depth study of the attacker’s activities, NSFOCUS Research Labs has ruled out its link with known APT groups, confirmed its high-level persistent threat nature, and following the operational […]
One of the world’s largest banks is dealing with a ransomware attack, according to media reports on Thursday. The Financial Times first reported that the state-owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) — China’s biggest, with revenues of $214.7 billion in 2022 — was hit with ransomware this week. The Securities Industry and Financial […]
Dolly.com pays ransom, attackers release data anyway Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2023 On-demand moving and delivery platform Dolly.com allegedly paid a ransom but crooks found an excuse not to hold their end of the bargain. Cybercriminals are hardly a trustworthy bunch. Case in point: Dolly.com. The Cybernews research team believes that the platform suffered a […]