Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has published today its first TAG quarterly report that analyzes rising trends in nation-state and financially motivated attacks. Google also discloses seven coordinated political influence campaigns that took place on its platforms during Q1 2020. The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is a group inside the Google’s security team that […]
The Ke3chang hacking group added a new malware dubbed Ketrum to its arsenal, it borrows portions of code and features from older backdoors. The Ke3chang hacking group (aka APT15, Vixen Panda, Playful Dragon, and Royal APT) has developed new malware dubbed Ketrum by borrowing parts of the source code and features from their older Ketrican and […]
The number of ransomware attacks increased by 40 percent last year, according to Group-IB attackers think bigger and grow more advanced. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, found out that the year of 2019 was marked by ransomware evolution and was dominated by increasingly aggressive ransomware campaigns, with its operators resorting to more cunning […]
A joint operations conducted by experts from Chinese firms Qihoo 360 Netlab and Baidu dismantle the ShuangQiang ‘s botnet infecting over hundreds of thousands of systems. A joint operation conducted by Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab and tech giant Baidu disrupted a botnet operated by a group tracked as ShuangQiang (aka Double Gun) that infected […]
Researchers disclosed a new critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-0096, aka StrandHogg 2.0) affecting the Android operating system that could allow attackers to carry out a sophisticated version of Strandhogg attack. A group of Norwegian researchers disclosed a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-0096, affecting Android OS that could allow attackers to carry out a sophisticated version of the […]
Threat actors are offering for sale more than two dozen SQL databases belonging to e-commerce websites for different countries. Hackers are offering for sale more than two dozen SQL databases stolen from online shops from multiple countries. Threat actors have compromised insecure servers exposed online and after copying the content of their websites they left […]
Ransomware encrypts from virtual machines to evade antivirus Ragnar Locker deploys Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim’s files, the trick allows to evaded detection from security software. Crooks always devise new techniques to evade detection, the Ragnar Locker is deploying Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim’s files while bypassing security measures. The Ragnar […]
Three hacking forums Nulled[.]ch, Sinfulsite[.]com, and suxx[.]to have been hacked and their databases have been leaked online Researchers from intelligence firm Cyble made the headlines again, this time they have discovered online the databases of three hacking forums. The three forums are Sinful Site, SUXX.TO and Nulled, they were all hacked. These cybercrime forums are places of aggregation for […]
A threat actor is offering for sale on a dark web marketplace a database containing 25 million user records belonging to the Mathway. A data breach broker, known as Shiny Hunters, is offering for sale on a dark web marketplace a database that contains 25 million user records for Mathway. Early May, Shiny Hunters attempted to […]
A team of hackers and cyber-security researchers have released a new jailbreak package dubbed Unc0ver for iOS devices. A team of cyber-security researchers and hackers have released a new jailbreak package dubbed Unc0ver (from the name of the team that devised it) that works on all recent iOS versions.devices, even those running the current iOS […]