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The Methodist Hospitals, Inc. revealed that a phishing attack potentially affected the information of approximately 68,000 patients. According to its Notice of Data Incident, the non-profit healthcare system located in Gary, Indiana detected unusual ac… Continue reading Phishing Attack Possibly Affected 68K Patients of The Methodist Hospitals
A new sextortion scam variant is using a wallet for a cryptocurrency other than bitcoin in an attempt to evade detection. On October 8, Cofense revealed it had detected a modified sextortion scam that was using a wallet address for Litecoin instead of … Continue reading New Sextortion Scam Uses Alternative Cryptocurrencies to Evade Detection
Instagram announced the release of a new feature that’s designed to help its users identify phishing emails impersonating the social media platform. On October 7, Instagram tweeted out about the new capability and said that users can leverage it … Continue reading Instagram Launches New Feature to Help Users Identify Phishing Emails
The developer of HildaCrypt has released the master decryption keys that would allow potential victims of the ransomware to recover their data for free. On October 4, a security researcher who goes by the name “GrujaRS” posted about the dis… Continue reading Decryption Keys Released by Developer of HildaCrypt Ransomware
Phishing attacks don’t show any sign of slowing down. Per its 2019 Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report, PhishLabs found that total phishing volume rose 40.9 percent over the course of 2018. These attacks targeted a range of organizations, esp… Continue reading 6 Common Phishing Attacks and How to Protect Against Them
A series of operational security (OpSec) failures on the part of attackers enabled researchers to discover the Geost botnet. In mid-2018, Virus Bulletin researchers Sebastian Garcia, María José Erquiaga and Anna Shirokova discovered Geost, on… Continue reading Discovery of Geost Botnet Made Possible by Attacker OpSec Fails
Digital criminals have launched a new attack campaign that they’re using to target U.S. petroleum companies with the Adwind RAT. Netskope discovered the operation in the beginning of September and found that it was distributing the Adwind RAT fro… Continue reading Attackers Targeting U.S. Petroleum Companies with Adwind RAT
A Danish company revealed that the costs associated with what appears to be a ransomware attack could reach as much as $95 million. Demant, a Danish manufacturer of hearing aids, suffered a “critical incident” that affected its IT infrastru… Continue reading Danish Firm Says Costs of Apparent Ransomware Attack Could Reach $95M
A malvertising actor known as “eGobbler” used obscure browser bugs to bypass built-in browser protections and expand the scope of its attacks. Confiant observed eGobbler exploiting the first vulnerability back on April 11, 2019. In that par… Continue reading eGobbler Malvertiser Bypassed Browser Protections Using Obscure Bugs
Samples of a new malware family called “Divergent” are using both NodeJS and WinDivert in a series of fileless attack campaigns. Cisco Talos didn’t identify the exact delivery method for Divergent. Even so, its researchers observed th… Continue reading Divergent Malware Using NodeJS, WinDivert in Fileless Attacks