Feds Reportedly Hacked REvil Ransomware Group and Forced it Offline

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The Russian-led REvil ransomware gang was felled by an active multi-country law enforcement operation that resulted in its infrastructure being hacked and taken offline for a second time earlier this week, in …

‘Lone Wolf’ Hacker Group Targeting Afghanistan and India with Commodity RATs

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A new malware campaign targeting Afghanistan and India is exploiting a now-patched, 20-year-old flaw affecting Microsoft Office to deploy an array of commodity remote access trojans (RATs) that allow the …

Popular NPM Package Hijacked to Publish Crypto-mining Malware

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Friday warned of crypto-mining malware embedded in “UAParser.js,” a popular JavaScript NPM library with over 6 million weekly downloads, days after the NPM repository …

Hackers Set Up Fake Company to Get IT Experts to Launch Ransomware Attacks

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The financially motivated FIN7 cybercrime gang has masqueraded as yet another fictitious cybersecurity company called “Bastion Secure” to recruit unwitting software engineers under the guise of penetration testing in a …

Malicious NPM Packages Caught Running Cryptominer On Windows, Linux, macOS Devices

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Three JavaScript libraries uploaded to the official NPM package repository have been unmasked as crypto-mining malware, once again demonstrating how open-source software package repositories are becoming a lucrative target for …