European & US-based businesses are on high alert due to a recent ransomware strain known as “DoNex,” which has been actively infecting networks and taking victims. Cybersecurity professionals are working nonstop to comprehend the entire extent of the attack and create countermeasures in response to this emerging threat. Several companies have been listed as victims […]
A new strain of malware dubbed XPhase Clipper has been stealthily targeting cryptocurrency users. This Clipper malware infiltrates unsuspecting victims’ systems through deceptive websites masquerading as authentic cryptocurrency platforms. Source: Cyble Cybersecurity experts at Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) have found this concerning trend where a large-scale operation is using cloned YouTube videos to […]
Executive summary In recent developments, a sophisticated malware stealer strain crafted in the Go programming language has been discovered by AT&T Alien Labs, posing a severe threat to both Windows and macOS operating systems. As of the time of publishing of this article, traditional antivirus solutions have low or even non-existent detection rates, making it […]
ALPHV was the second-most leveraged ransomware strain in North America and Europe between January 2022 and October 2023, just before the reported takedown of the group’s website, according to ZeroFox research. The analysis found that ALPHV, aka BlackCat, accounted for around 11% of all ransomware and digital extortion (R&DE) attacks in North America over the […]
The LockBit ransomware strain continues to be the primary digital extortion threat to all regions, and almost all industries globally, according to a report by ZeroFox. Researchers found that LockBit was leveraged in more than a quarter of global ransomware and digital extortion (R&DE) attacks in the seven quarters analyzed from January 2022 to September […]
Nov 29, 2023NewsroomRansomware / Cyber Threat A variant of a ransomware strain known as DJVU has been observed to be distributed in the form of cracked software. “While this attack pattern is not new, incidents involving a DJVU variant that appends the .xaro extension to affected files and demanding ransom for a decryptor have been […]
Nov 21, 2023NewsroomRansomware-as-a-service The ransomware strain known as Play is now being offered to other threat actors “as a service,” new evidence unearthed by Adlumin has revealed. “The unusual lack of even small variations between attacks suggests that they are being carried out by affiliates who have purchased the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) and are following step-by-step […]
The North Korea-based BlueNoroff APT group has been linked with a new malware strain that is being used to target macOS systems. Dubbed ObjCShellz, the malware shares similarities with the RustBucket malware campaign, which came to light earlier this year. Diving in details Jamf Threat Labs first came across the malware while investigating a Mach-O […]
An advanced strain of malware masquerading as a cryptocurrency miner has managed to fly the radar for over five years, infecting no less than one million devices around the world in the process. That’s according to findings from Kaspersky, which has codenamed the threat StripedFly, describing it as an “intricate modular framework that supports both […]
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