Cybersecurity
The coordinator for the U.N. body monitoring enforcement of sanctions on North Korea said on Wednesday a stepped up focus was needed on cybercrime, which had become fundamental to Pyongyang's ability to finance its banned weapons programs. Eric Penton-Voak, of the…
An Israeli private detective detained in New York since 2019 on charges of involvement in a hacker-for-hire scheme pleaded guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy to commit hacking and aggravated identity theft on Wednesday. Federal prosecutors say the detective, Aviram Azari…
Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability in the Snort intrusion detection and prevention system that could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition and render it powerless against malicious traffic. Tracked as CVE-2022-20685, the vulnerability…
Identity cloud provider Okta concluded its investigation into a recent breach of its systems by the Lapsus$ extortion group, which gained access to some of company's systems through a third-party contract firm and then revealed the compromise in March. The breach impacted…
REvil ransomware’s servers in the TOR network are back up after months of inactivity and redirect to a new operation that appears to have started since at least mid-December last year. It is unclear who is behind the new REvil-connected operation but the new leak site lists a…
A Hive ransomware affiliate has been targeting Microsoft Exchange servers vulnerable to ProxyShell security issues to deploy various backdoors, including Cobalt Strike beacon. From there, the threat actors perform network reconnaissance, steal admin account credentials…
LinkedIn has become by far the most impersonated brand for phishing attacks, according to new research by Check Point Research (CPR). The cybersecurity vendor’s 2022 Q1 Brand Phishing Report revealed that phishing attacks impersonating the professional social…
Five allied countries including the United States warned Wednesday that "evolving intelligence" indicated Russia was poised to launch powerful cyberattacks against rivals supporting Ukraine. The members of the "Five Eyes" intelligence sharing network -- the US…
The FBI issued a private industry notification on Wednesday to warn agricultural cooperatives about a potential increase in ransomware attacks during planting and harvest seasons. In September 2021, the FBI warned the food and agriculture sector that an increase…
Threat analysts report that the Russian state-sponsored threat group known as Gamaredon (a.k.a. Armageddon/Shuckworm) is launching attacks against targets in Ukraine using new variants of the custom Pteredo backdoor. Gamaredon has been launching cyber-espionage…