Cyber Threats

February 3, 2020

30,000 Patients Affected After Malware Corrupts Medical Records

On November 21, 2019, Fondren Orthopedic Group, an association of private orthopedic surgery practitioners located in Houston and the surrounding areas, were hit by a ...

February 3, 2020

Evil Corp Resumes Operations Using New Phishing Tactic to Deliver RAT

A hacking group known as Evil Corp, aka TA505, has resumed its malicious activities and has adopted a new phishing tactic for delivering malware. The ...

February 3, 2020

Novel Coronavirus Outbreak Prompts HHS Covered Entity HIPAA Data Sharing Warning

In response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak, the Department of Health and Human Services has released a bulletin to make HIPAA-covered entities aware of ...

January 31, 2020

Beware of Coronavirus Themed Phishing Attacks

The novel coronavirus that originated in the province of Wuhan in China has now spread to other countries, with Japan and Thailand the worst affected ...

January 27, 2020

Urgent Patching Required for Windows Server Flaws Now PoC Exploits Published

On January 2020 Patch Tuesday (01.14.2020) Microsoft released patches to address two vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) that affected Windows Server 2012, 2016, ...

January 24, 2020

CISA Warns of Increase in Emotet Malware Activity

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning over an increase in Emotet malware activity. The Emotet botnet sprung ...

January 24, 2020

Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerability in Cisco Firepower Management Center

Cisco has issued hotfix patches for a critical vulnerability in its network security tool, Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC). The flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-16028, is ...

January 22, 2020

The Emotet Botnet is Back in Action Sending Spam with New Lures to Fool the Unwary

There was a welcome Christmas break from the Emotet botnet, but life has returned to normal and it is well and truly back in action. ...

January 21, 2020

Critical Zero-Day Internet Explorer Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Microsoft has announced it is developing a patch for a zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability that is currently being exploited in the wild. In the meantime, ...

January 16, 2020

DHS: Citrix Vulnerability Being Exploited Still

The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released an alert in relation to a recently discovered flaw in the Citrix ...

January 10, 2020

Mozilla Patches Actively Exploited Zero Day Firefox Vulnerability

Mozilla has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in the Firefox browser which is being actively exploited in the wild. The flaw – tracked as CVE-2019-17026 ...

January 7, 2020

Landry’s Restaurant Chain Discovers POS Malware Infection

January 2, 2020

Microsoft Takes Down 50 Phishing Domains Used by North Korea-Backed Threat Group

Microsoft has sought help from the courts to take down domains used by the North Korea-backed hacking group, Thallium (APT37). After securing the court order ...

December 26, 2019

Three Members of Goznym Banking Trojan Gang Sentenced

Three individuals who were part of the criminal organization responsible for the Goznym malware attacks in Europe and North America between 2015 and 2016 have ...

December 24, 2019

Campaign Identified Delivering Package of 6 Malware Variants

A malware distribution campaign has been detected by researchers at Deep Instinct which is delivering a package of 6 malware variants in one hit. The ...

December 6, 2019

New Highly Destructive Wiper Malware Variant Detected

A new wiper malware has been detected by security researchers at IBM X-Force which is being used in attacks on energy companies and industrial firms ...

December 4, 2019

StrandHogg Android Vulnerability Allows Malicious Apps to Pose as Legitimate Ones

An Android vulnerability has been discovered that allows malicious apps to disguise themselves as legitimate apps and gain full permissions. The vulnerability is being actively ...

November 27, 2019

Microsoft Reports on New Dexphot Malware That Has Infected 80,000 Devices

This week, Microsoft has reported on a ‘new’ malware threat named Dexphot. It is not exactly new, as Microsoft first detected the threat in October ...

November 21, 2019

Horrific Android Camera Vulnerability Left Millions of Users Vulnerable to Spying

A vulnerability has been identified in the Google Camera and Samsung Camera apps that is easy to exploit and would allow an attacker to take ...

November 19, 2019

New Phishing Campaign Detected Targeting Office 365 Administrators

PhishLabs has identified an ongoing phishing campaign targeting Office 365 administrators. The aim of the campaign is to obtain Office 365 admin credentials. Phishers face ...

November 14, 2019

Fortinet Threat Landscape Report Confirms Increase in Malware-as-a-Service Edge Surface Attacks

The recently released Fortinet Threat Landscape Report for Q3, 2019 shows hackers are targeting edge services and malware-as-a-service continues to grow in popularity. While there ...

November 13, 2019

November Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches 74 Flaws Including Actively Exploited RCE

November Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft patch 74 vulnerabilities across all its products, including 13 critical flaws and one remote code execution vulnerability that is ...

November 11, 2019

Highly Convincing Phishing Scam Uses Fake WebEx Client to Deliver RAT

A new phishing scam has been detected that uses a WebEx meeting request as a lure to get business users to download a remote access ...

November 1, 2019

Update Google Chrome: Zero-Day Vulnerability Being Actively Exploited in the Wild

A recently discovered vulnerability in Google Chrome is being actively exploited by hackers. The vulnerability was discovered by Kaspersky Lab security researchers Anton Ivanov and ...

October 31, 2019

Office 365 Users Targeted with Phishing Emails Containing Incomplete Voicemail Messages

A phishing campaign has been identified targeting Office 365 users that includes an incomplete voicemail message as a lure to get them to visit a ...

October 29, 2019

Phishing Campaign Identified Targeting NGOs and United Nations

A sophisticated spear phishing campaign has been identified by security researchers at Lookout Inc. that is targeting the United Nations and nongovernment organizations (NGOs). The ...

October 25, 2019

SonicWall Q3 Threat Report Shows Increase in IoT Malware, Web App Attacks, and Encrypted Threats

There has been a year-over-year decline in malware and ransomware attacks according to a new report from SonicWall, but Quarter 3, 2019 has seen a ...

October 18, 2019

Phorpiex Botnet Sending 30,000 Sextortion Emails an Hour

Sextortion may be nothing new, but it has certainly proven popular with cybercriminals in recent months. Sextortion emails threaten to expose sordid details of the ...

October 15, 2019

Many Popular Smartphones Vulnerable to Actively Exploited Zero-Day Android Flaw

A zero-day flaw in the Android operating system used by some of the most popular mobile phones on the market is being exploited in real-world ...

October 11, 2019

Reductor Malware Allows Hijacking of HTTPS Traffic

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have identified a new form of malware named Reductor that manipulates the random number generator of web browsers allowing decryption ...

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