Veriti Research has discovered a surge in attacks from operators of the Androxgh0st malware family, uncovering over 600 servers compromised primarily in the U.S., India and Taiwan. According to Veriti’s blog post, the adversary behind Androxgh0st had their C2 server exposed, which could allow for a counterstrike by revealing the impacted targets. The researchers then […]
What’s the deal with CherryBlos? CherryBlos is a rather interesting family of Android malware that can plunder your cryptocurrency accounts – with a little help from your photos. Wait. I’ve heard of hackers stealing photos before, but what do you mean by malware stealing cryptocurrency via my photos? How does it do that? Well, imagine […]
The official website of the UK’s royal family was taken offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Sunday, according to reports. The Royal.uk site was unavailable for around 90 minutes, starting at 10am local time, according to The Independent. It was fully functional again soon after, although Cloudflare checks were in place […]
A new ransomware family dubbed 3AM has emerged in the threat landscape. It was detected in an attack by a LockBit affiliate who attempted to deploy the ransomware when LockBit was blocked on the targeted network. Diving in details It begins with the use of the gpresult command to retrieve the policy settings for a […]
A new ransomware family calling itself 3AM has emerged. To date, the ransomware has only been used in a limited fashion. Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, has seen it used in a single attack by a ransomware affiliate that attempted to deploy LockBit on a target’s network and then switched to 3AM when […]
Sep 13, 2023THNRansomware / Malware A new ransomware family called 3AM has emerged in the wild after it was detected in a single incident in which an unidentified affiliate deployed the strain following an unsuccessful attempt to deploy LockBit (aka Bitwise Spider or Syrphid) in the target network. “3AM is written in Rust and appears […]