Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
21 February 2023
A sophisticated botnet known as MyloBot has compromised thousands of systems, with most of them located in India, the U.S., Indonesia, and Iran.
That's according to new findings from BitSight, which said it's "currently seeing more than 50,000 unique infected systems every day," down from a high of 250,000 unique hosts in 2020.
Furthermore, an analysis of MyloBot's infrastructure has found
21 February 2023
The rapid evolution of cybercrime is weighing on security teams substantially more than it did last year, leading to widespread burnout and potential regulatory risk, according to Magnet Forensics.
21 February 2023
Seemingly improving upon their initial release, HardBit version 2.0 was introduced toward the end of November 2022, with samples seen throughout the end of 2022 and into 2023.
21 February 2023
As the digital age evolves and continues to shape the business landscape, corporate networks have become increasingly complex and distributed. The amount of data a company collects to detect malicious behaviour constantly increases, making it challenging to detect deceptive and unknown attack patterns and the so-called "needle in the haystack". With a growing number of cybersecurity threats,
21 February 2023
Cybersecurity firm ThreatMon attributed the activity to a threat actor tracked as SideCopy. SideCopy is a threat group of Pakistani origin that overlaps with another actor called Transparent Tribe.
21 February 2023
The child and family agency Tusla is to begin contacting around 20,000 people whose data was compromised during the 2021 cyberattack on the Health Service Executive
(HSE), Ireland's public healthcare system.
21 February 2023
SentinelOne spotted a new cyberespionage campaign, dubbed WIP26, targeting telecommunications providers in the Middle East by exploiting popular tools from Google, Microsoft, and Dropbox. The attack begins with a WhatsApp message sent to employees of the targeted organization. For protection against such sophisticated attacks, researchers suggest keeping yourself updated with the latest cyber activities across the sector and leveraging a threat intelligence platform that caters to your need.
21 February 2023
Plymouth already released several versions of the info-stealer malware and published changelogs on hacking forums, as well as on a dedicated Telegram channel. The most recent variant observed by the experts is v1.3.0, released on February 11, 2023.
21 February 2023
A new information stealer called Stealc that's being advertised on the dark web could emerge as a worthy competitor to other malware of its ilk.
"The threat actor presents Stealc as a fully featured and ready-to-use stealer, whose development relied on Vidar, Raccoon, Mars, and RedLine stealers," SEKOIA said in a Monday report.
The French cybersecurity company said it discovered more than 40
21 February 2023
The health system announced Monday morning some patient data was compromised in a ransomware attack. LVHN said the group behind the attack is known as "BlackCat" and has had ties to Russia.
21 February 2023
Popular cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase disclosed that it experienced a cybersecurity attack that targeted its employees.
The company said its "cyber controls prevented the attacker from gaining direct system access and prevented any loss of funds or compromise of customer information."
The incident, which took place on February 5, 2023, resulted in the exposure of a "limited amount of
21 February 2023
According to official data, the total number of cybersecurity incidents tracked by the CERT-In during the year 2019 was 394,499, which spiked to 1,158,208 in 2020, and 1,402,809 in 2021. Similarly, 1,391,457 incidents were observed in 2022.
21 February 2023
In an age where cybersecurity threats are omnipresent, it’s vital to maintain good security practices around remote computing access — especially concerning the nation’s most critical sectors.
21 February 2023
Researchers from the Chinese cybersecurity company Qi An Pangu Lab believe they have identified six members of the “Against The West” hacking group, according to a report published Sunday by state-controlled media.
21 February 2023
A spear-phishing campaign targeting Indian government entities aims to deploy an updated version of a backdoor called ReverseRAT.
Cybersecurity firm ThreatMon attributed the activity to a threat actor tracked as SideCopy.
SideCopy is a threat group of Pakistani origin that shares overlaps with another actor called Transparent Tribe. It is so named for mimicking the infection chains associated
20 February 2023
Patrick Neise joins Groove as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Neise is a former Director of Operations for the NSA Red Team with a D.Eng.
20 February 2023
Suspected North Korean nation-state actors targeted a journalist in South Korea with a malware-laced Android app as part of a social engineering campaign. The findings come from the South Korea-based non-profit Interlab.
20 February 2023
The compromised data includes email addresses, full names, genders, phone numbers, and locations, which could put millions of users at risk of identity theft, phishing attacks, and other cybercrimes.
20 February 2023
As a result of the intrusion, the attacker obtained some contact information belonging to multiple Coinbase employees, the company said, adding that customer funds and data remained unaffected.
20 February 2023
Lockbit added the municipal water utility company to the list of victims on its Tor leak site, the deadline is March 07, 2023. CNN Portugal confirmed that the National Cybersecurity Center and the Judiciary Police are investigating the breach.