Daily Cyber Brief
Pegasus spyware has been used in at least 5 European countries, Lithuania warns about an increase in DDoS attacks, and Conti breaches over 40 orgs in a month...
Cybersecurity
A group of likely state-backed cyber attackers have adopted a new loader to spread five different kinds of ransomware in a bid to hide their true espionage activities. On Thursday, cybersecurity researchers from Secureworks published new research on HUI Loader…
Tech leaders testifying on Wednesday before a House subcommittee on cyber told lawmakers that more coordination is needed between the public and the private sector to identify security threats, including cyber, that stem from emerging technologies like quantum computing and…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United States Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER) warned organizations that unpatched VMWare Horizon and Unified Access Gateway (UAG) servers are still being exploited through…
The beleaguered Israeli surveillanceware vendor NSO Group this week admitted to the European Union lawmakers that its Pegasus tool was used by at least five countries in the region. "We're trying to do the right thing and that's more than other companies working in…
The Conti cybercrime syndicate runs one of the most aggressive ransomware operations and has grown highly organized, to the point that affiliates were able to hack more than 40 companies in a little over a month. Security researchers codenamed the hacking campaign…
The APT is pairing a known Microsoft flaw with a malicious document to load malware that nabs credentials from Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers. Advanced persistent threat group Fancy Bear is behind a phishing campaign that uses the specter of nuclear war to exploit a…
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) released a new report on Thursday chronicling an Italian spyware vendor selling technology used on victims in Italy and Kazakhstan. The report mirrors another from cybersecurity company Lookout that was published last week covering…
A threat cluster with ties to a hacking group called Tropic Trooper has been spotted using a previously undocumented malware coded in Nim language to strike targets as part of a newly discovered campaign. The novel loader, dubbed Nimbda, is "bundled with a Chinese…
Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed today that RCS Labs, an Italian spyware vendor, has received help from some Internet service providers (ISPs) to infect Android and iOS users in Italy and Kazakhstan with commercial surveillance tools. RCS Labs is just one…
The National Cyber Security Center (NKSC) of Lithuania has issued a public warning about a steep increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks directed against public authorities in the country. DDoS is a special type of cyberattack that causes internet servers…