The crimeware group known as 8220 Gang expanded over the last month their Cloud Botnet to roughly 30,000 hosts globally. Researchers from SentinelOne reported that low-skill crimeware 8220 Gang has expanded their Cloud Botnet over the last month to roughly 30,000 hosts globally. The gang focuses on infecting cloud hosts to deploy cryptocurrency miners by […]
Kaspersky researchers discovered a new ransomware family written in Rust, named Luna, that targets Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab detailed a new ransomware family named Luna, which is written in Rust and is able to target Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems. Luna ransomware is the third ransomware family that is written […]
The Council of the European Union (EU) warns of malicious cyber activities conducted by threat actors in the context of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The Council of the European Union (EU) warns of the risks associated with the malicious cyber activities conducted by threat actors in the context of the ongoing conflict […]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium blames multiple China-linked threat actors for attacks against The country’s defense and interior ministries. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium revealed that multiple China-linked APT groups targeted the country’s defense and interior ministries. “Belgium exposes malicious cyber activities that significantly affected our sovereignty, democracy, security and society at large by targeting the […]
Researchers spotted previously undocumented spyware, dubbed CloudMensis, that targets the Apple macOS systems. Researchers from ESET discovered a previously undetected macOS backdoor, tracked as CloudMensis, that targets macOS systems and exclusively uses public cloud storage services as C2. The malware was designed to spy on the target systems, exfiltrate documents, acquire keystrokes, and screen captures. […]
Russia-linked threat actors APT29 are using the Google Drive cloud storage service to evade detection. Palo Alto Networks researchers reported that the Russia-linked APT29 group, tracked by the researchers as Cloaked Ursa, started using the Google Drive cloud storage service to evade detection. The Russia-linked APT29 group (aka SVR, Cozy Bear, and The Dukes) has been active since at least […]
The U.S. FBI has warned of crooks developing malicious cryptocurrency-themed apps to steal crypto assets from the users. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of crooks creating malicious cryptocurrency-themed apps to steal crypto assets from investors. Crooks contact US investors claiming to offer legitimate cryptocurrency investment services, and attempt to trick them […]
The Tor Project team has announced the release of Tor Browser 11.5, which introduces functionalities to automatically bypass censorship. The Tor Project team has announced the release of Tor Browser 11.5, the new version of the popular privacy-oriented browser implements new features to fight censorship. With previous versions of the browser, circumventing censorship of the […]
Researchers published an analysis of the Windows remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2022-30136 impacting the Network File System. Trend Micro Research has published an analysis of the recently patched Windows vulnerability CVE-2022-30136 that impacts the Network File System. CVE-2022-30136 is a remote code execution vulnerability that resides in the Windows Network File System, it is due […]
The high-end British jeweler Graff paid a £6 million ransom after the ransomware attack it suffered in 2021. In September 2021, the Conti ransomware gang hit high society jeweler Graff and threatens to release private details of world leaders, actors and tycoons The customers of the company are the richest people on the globe, including […]