Experts Uncover Malware Attacks Against Colombian Government and Companies

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Cybersecurity researchers took the wraps off an ongoing surveillance campaign directed against Colombian government institutions and private companies in the energy and metallurgical industries. In a report published by ESET on Tuesday, the Slovak internet security company said the attacks …

Intel Adds Hardware-Enabled Ransomware Detection to 11th Gen vPro Chips

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Intel and Cybereason have partnered to build anti-ransomware defenses into the chipmaker’s newly announced 11th generation Core vPro business-class processors. The hardware-based security enhancements are baked into Intel’s vPro platform via its Hardware Shield and Threat Detection Technology (TDT), enabling profiling and detection of ransomware and …

Buyer’s Guide for Securing Internal Environment with a Small Cybersecurity Team

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Ensuring the cybersecurity of your internal environment when you have a small security team is challenging. If you want to maintain the highest security level with a small team, your strategy has to be ‘do more with less,’ and with …

Authorities Take Down World’s Largest Illegal Dark Web Marketplace

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Europol on Tuesday said it shut down DarkMarket, the world’s largest online marketplace for illicit goods, as part of an international operation involving Germany, Australia, Denmark, Moldova, Ukraine, the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA), and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). …

Hackers Steal Mimecast Certificate Used to Securely Connect with Microsoft 365

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Mimecast said on Tuesday that “a sophisticated threat actor” had compromised a digital certificate it provided to certain customers to securely connect its products to Microsoft 365 (M365) Exchange. The discovery was made after the breach was notified by Microsoft, …

Warning — 5 New Trojanized Android Apps Spying On Users In Pakistan

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Cybersecurity researchers took the wraps off a new spyware operation targeting users in Pakistan that leverages trojanized versions of legitimate Android apps to carry out covert surveillance and espionage. Designed to masquerade apps such as the Pakistan Citizen Portal, a …

Microsoft Issues Patches for Defender Zero-Day and 82 Other Windows Flaws

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

For the first patch Tuesday of 2021, Microsoft released security updates addressing a total of 83 flaws spanning as many as 11 products and services, including an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. The latest security patches cover Microsoft Windows, Edge browser, ChakraCore, Office …

Experts Sound Alarm On New Android Malware Sold On Hacking Forums

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Cybersecurity researchers have exposed the operations of an Android malware vendor who teamed up with a second threat actor to market and sell a remote access Trojan (RAT) capable of device takeover and exfiltration of photos, locations, contacts, and messages …

Researchers Find Links Between Sunburst and Russian Kazuar Malware

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Cybersecurity researchers, for the first time, may have found a potential connection between the backdoor used in the SolarWinds hack to a previously known malware strain. In new research published by Kaspersky researchers today, the cybersecurity firm said it discovered several features that overlap …

Unveiled: SUNSPOT Malware Was Used to Inject SolarWinds Backdoor

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

As the investigation into the SolarWinds supply-chain attack continues, cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a third malware strain that was deployed into the build environment to inject the backdoor into the company’s Orion network monitoring platform. Called “Sunspot,” the backdoor adds …