Husband-Wife Arrested in Ukraine for Ransomware Attacks on Foreign Companies

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Ukrainian police authorities have nabbed five members of a gang that’s believed to have helped orchestrate attacks against more than 50 companies across Europe and the U.S and caused losses …

Iranian Hackers Exploit Log4j Vulnerability to Deploy PowerShell Backdoor

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An Iranian state-sponsored actor has been observed scanning and attempting to abuse the Log4Shell flaw in publicly-exposed Java applications to deploy a hitherto undocumented PowerShell-based modular backdoor dubbed “CharmPower” for …

Researchers Decrypted Qakbot Banking Trojan’s Encrypted Registry Keys

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Cybersecurity researchers have decoded the mechanism by which the versatile Qakbot banking trojan handles the insertion of encrypted configuration data into the Windows Registry. Qakbot, also known as QBot, QuackBot and …

Hackers Use Cloud Services to Distribute Nanocore, Netwire, and AsyncRAT Malware

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Threat actors are actively incorporating public cloud services from Amazon and Microsoft into their malicious campaigns to deliver commodity remote access trojans (RATs) such as Nanocore, Netwire, and AsyncRAT to siphon sensitive information from …

Apple Releases iPhone and iPad Updates to Patch HomeKit DoS Vulnerability

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Apple on Wednesday rolled out software updates for iOS and iPadOS to remediate a persistent denial-of-service (DoS) issue affecting the HomeKit smart home framework that could be potentially exploited to launch ransomware-like …

FBI, NSA and CISA Warns of Russian Hackers Targeting Critical Infrastructure

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Amid renewed tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine and Kazakhstan, American cybersecurity and intelligence agencies on Tuesday released a joint advisory on how to detect, respond to, and mitigate cyberattacks orchestrated …

New SysJoker Espionage Malware Targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux Users

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A new cross-platform backdoor called “SysJoker” has been observed targeting machines running Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems as part of an ongoing espionage campaign that’s believed to have been initiated during …

First Patch Tuesday of 2022 Brings Fix for a Critical ‘Wormable’ Windows Vulnerability

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Microsoft on Tuesday kicked off its first set of updates for 2022 by plugging 96 security holes across its software ecosystem, while urging customers to prioritize patching for what it calls a …