Swedish automotive manufacturer Volvo Cars revealed that has suffered a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of R&D data. Swedish automotive manufacturer Volvo Cars revealed that threat actors have stolen R&D data from its systems. In 2010, Volvo Cars became a subsidiary of the Chinese manufacturer Geely Holding Group, which confirmed that it “has become […]
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warns of Conti ransomware attacks again multiple Australian organizations. The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warns of Conti ransomware attacks against multiple Australian organizations from various sectors since November. “The ACSC is aware of multiple instances of Australian organisations that have been impacted by Conti ransomware in November and […]
BlackCat is the first professional ransomware strain that was written in the Rust programming language, researchers reported. Malware researchers from Recorded Future and MalwareHunterTeam discovered ALPHV (aka BlackCat), the first professional ransomware strain that was written in the Rust programming language In the past, other two ransomware were written in Rust for research purposes, one of them […]
Threat actors are injecting credit card swipers into random plugins of e-commerce WordPress sites, Sucuri researchers warn. Sucuri researchers are warning of threat actors injecting credit card swipers into random plugins of e-commerce WordPress sites. The holidays season is the period when online scammers and threat actors intensify their operations. Sucuri researchers have spotted a […]
Researches from cybersecurity firm JFrog found 17 malicious packages on the NPM package repository hijacking Discord servers. JFrog researchers have discovered 17 malicious packages in the NPM (Node.js package manager) repository that were developed to hijack Discord servers. The libraries allow stealing Discord access tokens and environment variables from systems running giving the attackers full access to […]
Moobot is a Mirai-based botnet that is leveraging a critical command injection vulnerability in the webserver of some Hikvision products. The Mirai-based Moobot botnet is rapidly spreading by exploiting a critical command injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-36260, in the webserver of several Hikvision products. The Moobot was first documented by Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers […]
A cyberattack hit CS Energy in Australia on Saturday, November 27, experts believe the attack was orchestrated by Chinese hackers. A ransomware cyberattack hit a major energy network operated by CS Energy, that attack could have had dramatic consequences leaving millions of homes without energy. The attack took place on Saturday, November 27, experts believe […]
Google announced to have disrupted the Glupteba botnet, a huge infrastructure composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs worldwide. Google announced to have taken down the infrastructure operated by the Glupteba, it also sued Russian nationals Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov for creating and operating the botnet. The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since […]
Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns customers of ongoing attacks targeting their NAS devices with cryptocurrency miners. Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns customers of threat actors targeting their NAS devices with cryptocurrency miners. Upon compromising the devices, the miner will create a new process named [oom_reaper] that allows threat actors to mine Bitcoin The above process could occupy […]
A cyber attack hit the international supermarket franchise SPAR forcing 330 shops in North East England to shut down. A cyberattack hit the international supermarket franchise SPAR impacting the operations at 330 shops in North East England. Many stores were forced to close or switch to cash-only payments after the attack. SPAR operates 13,320 stores […]