Cybersecurity

Pro-Iranian Hacker Group Targeting Albania with No-Justice Wiper Malware

Jan 06, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Attack The recent wave of cyber attacks targeting Albanian organizations involved the use of a wiper called No-Justice. The findings come from cybersecurity company ClearSky, which said the Windows-based malware “crashes the operating system in a way that it cannot be rebooted.” The intrusions have been attributed to an Iranian […]

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QakBot Malware Resurfaces with New Tactics, Targeting the Hospitality Industry

Dec 18, 2023NewsroomMalware / Cybersecurity A new wave of phishing messages distributing the QakBot malware has been observed, more than three months after a law enforcement effort saw its infrastructure dismantled by infiltrating its command-and-control (C2) network. Microsoft, which made the discovery, described it as a low-volume campaign that began on December 11, 2023, and […]

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Erykah Badu and Madlib join Romare, BADBADNOTGOOD, En Vogue and Gilles Peterson on Cross The Tracks festival bill | Juno Daily

Festival set for fifth edition, in May 2024 Erykah Badu and Madlib (DJ set) are among the next wave of names added to the bill for 2024’s Cross The Tracks festival, at Brockwell Park, London on Sunday May 26, 2024. The other names confirmed today are Venna, Iniko, Neal Francis, Brainstory, Yazmin Lacey (DJ), Mackwood, […]

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Microsoft Warns of Malvertising Scheme Spreading CACTUS Ransomware

Dec 04, 2023NewsroomRansomware / Cyber Attack Microsoft has warned of a new wave of CACTUS ransomware attacks that leverage malvertising lures to deploy DanaBot as an initial access vector. The DanaBot infections led to “hands-on-keyboard activity by ransomware operator Storm-0216 (Twisted Spider, UNC2198), culminating in the deployment of CACTUS ransomware,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team […]

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China-Linked Budworm Targeting Middle Eastern Telco and Asian Government Agencies

Sep 28, 2023THNMalware / Cyber Threat Government and telecom entities have been subjected to a new wave of attacks by a China-linked threat actor tracked as Budworm using an updated malware toolset. The intrusions, targeting a Middle Eastern telecommunications organization and an Asian government, took place in August 2023, with the adversary deploying an improved […]

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Iranian Threat Group Hits Thousands With Password Spray Campaign

An Iranian state-backed APT group carried out a “wave” of cyber-espionage attacks against thousands of global targets over a six-month period, Microsoft has revealed. The group known as Peach Sandstorm (aka APT33, Elfin, and Refined Kitten) used password spraying techniques between February and July 2023. This is a brute-force technique where threat actors try to […]