Collaborate Disseminate
An Iran-linked cyber-espionage group that has been found targeting critical infrastructure, energy and military sectors in Saudi Arabia and the United States two years ago continues targeting organizations in the two nations, Symantec reported on Wedne… Continue reading Elfin Hacking Group Targets Multiple U.S. and Saudi Arabian Firms
Remember the CCleaner hack?
CCleaner hack was one of the largest supply chain attacks that infected more than 2.3 million users with a backdoored version of the software in September 2017.
Security researchers today revealed another massive supply ch… Continue reading Warning: ASUS Software Update Server Hacked to Distribute Malware
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One of the world’s largest producers of aluminum has been forced to shut down several of its plants across Europe and the U.S. after an “extensive cyber attack” hit its operations, leaving companies’ IT systems un… Continue reading Ransomware Attack Forces Aluminum Manufacturer to Shutdown Systems Worldwide
Since most security tools also keep an eye on the network traffic to detect malicious IP addresses, attackers are increasingly adopting infrastructure of legitimate services in their attacks to hide their malicious activities.
Cybersecurity researcher… Continue reading New malware found using Google Drive as its command-and-control server
Microsoft today issued an out-of-band security update to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that attackers are already exploiting in the wild to hack into Windows computers.
Discovered by security researcher … Continue reading Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For Under-Attack IE Zero Day
A new piece of ransomware is spreading rapidly across China that has already infected more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as a result of a supply-chain attack… and the number of infected users is continuously increasing every hour.
Wha… Continue reading New Ransomware Spreading Rapidly in China Infected Over 100,000 PCs
It took Dell almost a full month to inform its customers that their information was stolen following a security incident which occurred on November 9, 2018, reads a notice on the computer company’s website. The company reset customer passwords wi… Continue reading Dell detects data breach, informs customers after a month
The Department of Justice announced Wednesday charges against two Iranian nationals for their involvement in creating and deploying the notorious SamSam ransomware.
The alleged hackers, Faramarz Shahi Savandi, 34, and Mohammad Mehdi Shah, 27, have bee… Continue reading U.S Charges Two Iranian Hackers for SamSam Ransomware Attacks
A former Microsoft network engineer who was charged in April this year has now been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to money laundering in connection with the Reveton ransomware.
Reveton malware is old ransomware, also known as … Continue reading Former Microsoft Engineer Gets Prison for Role in Reveton Ransomware
With Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un exchanging handshakes and smiles at the Singapore security summit earlier this month, you may have been fooled into thinking that all was cordial between the United States and North Korea. Look under the surface, howev… Continue reading US Government warns of more North Korean malware attacks