Tag: Malware

December 4, 2020

More than six years have passed since the banking Trojan Emotet was first detected. During this time it has repeatedly mutated, changed direction, acquired partners, picked up modules, and generally been the cause of high-profile incidents and multimillion-dollar losses. The […]

December 1, 2020

A nation-state actor known for its cyber espionage campaigns since 2012 is now using coin miner techniques to stay under the radar and establish persistence on victim systems, according to new research. Attributing the shift to a threat actor tracked […]

December 1, 2020

Baltimore County Schools are still closed following a ransomware attack and unfortunately, at the time of this writing, it is impossible to predict when school will resume. School officials notified state and federal law enforcement agencies, that launched an investigation […]

November 23, 2020

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a flash alert (MU-000140-MW) to warn private industry partners of an increase of the Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020. The MU-000140-MW flash alert includes indicators of […]

November 19, 2020

Emotet is one of the most dangerous and widespread malware threats active today. Ever since its discovery in 2014—when Emotet was a standard credential stealer and banking Trojan, the malware has evolved into a modular, polymorphic platform for distributing other […]

November 18, 2020

Malspam, or malicious spam, is one of the most common and problematic attack vectors currently plaguing the cyber threat landscape. It is a very effective method for delivering emails in bulk that contain a phishing message directing victims to either […]

November 13, 2020

In November 2019, Macy’s confirmed the presence of credit card-skimming Magecart malware on its checkout and wallet pages just as Black Friday and the holiday shopping season approached. Macy’s indicated that the malware allowed a third party to capture customers’ […]

November 12, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a new kind of modular backdoor that targets point-of-sale (POS) restaurant management software from Oracle in an attempt to pilfer sensitive payment information stored in the devices. The backdoor — dubbed “ModPipe” — impacts Oracle MICROS […]

November 12, 2020

Security researchers from BlackBerry Research are tracking a cyberespionage group dubbed CostaRicto whose targets are unusually varied, indicating that it’s selling hacker-for-hire services to other entities. The group uses its own custom-built malware and a complex network of proxies, VPNs […]

November 10, 2020

Security researchers have identified a malicious npm package that an attacker designed to steal web browser files and Discord gaming instant messages. This is not the first attempt of its kind, and it looks like the project has been online […]