Massive AdSense Fraud Campaign Uncovered
Feb 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananAd Fraud / Online Security The threat actors behind the black hat redirect malware campaign have scaled up their campaign to use…
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Chinese Hackers Targeting South American Diplomatic Entities with ShadowPad
Feb 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat Intelligence Microsoft on Monday attributed a China-based cyber espionage actor to a set of attacks targeting diplomatic entities in South…
Clipper Malware Found in 450+ PyPI Packages!
Feb 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Software Security Malicious actors have published more than 451 unique Python packages on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) repository…
A CISOs Practical Guide to Storage and Backup Ransomware Resiliency
One thing is clear. The “business value” of data continues to grow, making it an organization’s primary piece of intellectual property. From a cyber risk…
Apple’s iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari Under Attack with New Zero-Day Flaw
Feb 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananDevice Security / Zero Day Apple on Monday rolled out security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari to address a zero-day…
Massive HTTP DDoS Attack Hits Record High of 71 Million Requests/Second
Feb 14, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71…
Hackers Create Malicious Dota 2 Game Modes to Secretly Access Players’ Systems
Feb 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananGame Hacking / Cyber Threat An unknown threat actor created malicious game modes for the Dota 2 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA)…
The Use of Deception in ICS/OT Environments
There have been a number of reports of attacks on industrial control systems (ICS) in the past few years. Looking a bit closer, most of…
Chinese Tonto Team Hackers’ Second Attempt to Target Cybersecurity Firm Group-IB Fails
Feb 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat Intelligence The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Tonto Team carried out an unsuccessful attack on cybersecurity company Group-IB…
Hackers Targeting U.S. and German Firms Monitor Victims’ Desktops with Screenshotter
A previously unknown threat actor has been targeting companies in the U.S. and Germany with bespoke malware designed to steal confidential information. Enterprise security company…
New ESXiArgs Ransomware Variant Emerges After CISA Releases Decryptor Tool
Feb 11, 2023Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Endpoint Security After the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a decryptor for affected victims to recover from…
The New Threats to Cryptocurrency Users
Suspected Russian threat actors have been targeting Eastern European users in the crypto industry with fake job opportunities as bait to install information-stealing malware on…