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May 21, 2020

Massive Phishing Campaign Distributing Legitimate Remote Admin Tool as RAT

A phishing campaign has been detected that exploits the COVID-19 pandemic to spread a legitimate remote administration tool which is being used as a remote ...

May 19, 2020

Another Malware Variant Identified that Targets Air-Gapped Networks

In the past week, three cybersecurity firms have announced they have found malware variants that are being used to target air-gapped networks. First came the ...

May 15, 2020

Ramsay Malware Designed to Steal Data from Air-Gapped Networks

A new malware toolkit has been discovered that appears to have been developed to steal sensitive data from air-gapped networks. Researchers at ESET have named ...

May 14, 2020

Prioritize Patching and Fix These Commonly Exploited Vulnerabilities

A joint alert has been issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...

May 1, 2020

Easily Exploitable RCE Salt Vulnerabilities Discovered that Require Urgent Attention

Researchers at F-Secure have identified two high severity vulnerabilities in the SaltStack Python-based open source Salt project, which can allow remote code execution as root ...

April 27, 2020

Sophos Discovers and Patches Actively Exploited Flaw in its XG Firewall

Sophos has released a patch for a zero-day vulnerability in its XG Firewall which has been exploited in attacks to deliver malware. The flaw was ...

April 23, 2020

Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaws Identified in iOS Mail Application

Two critical zero-day vulnerabilities have been identified in the iOS Mail application that have been exploited by threat actors in attacks on high profile targets ...

April 21, 2020

Phishing Campaign Claims Tens of Millions of Euros of Government COVID-19 Payouts

A phishing campaign has resulted in losses of tens of millions of Euros for the German North-Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) government. The NRW government’s Ministry of Economic ...

April 15, 2020

Three Actively Exploited Flaws Patched by Microsoft

On April 2020 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft made available updates to fix 113 flaws in its operating systems and software solutions, 19 of which have been ...

April 14, 2020

FTC: Coronavirus and COVID-19 Scams Result in Losses of $12.78 Million in 2020

Figures released by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have revealed the extent of losses to coronavirus and COVID-19 scams in 2020. The FTC received ...

April 8, 2020

Zoom Installers are Being Bundled with Malware

The sheer number of people now working from home to maintain social distancing during the coronavirus lockdown has resulted in huge interest in teleconferencing platforms ...

April 6, 2020

Lokibot Information Stealer Distributed in Spear Phishing ampaign Impersonating WHO

Researchers at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs have identified a new spear phishing campaign that impersonates the World Health Organization (WHO) to distribute the LokiBot information stealer. ...

April 3, 2020

Beware of New Coronavirus Wiper Malware

A new wiper malware has been detected that uses a similar method to the 2017 NotPetya wiper malware to trash computers by overwriting the Master ...

April 2, 2020

Phishing Campaigns Using Offer of Coronavirus Financial Relief as Lure

Governments around the world are developing financial relief packages to help citizens that have been unable to work due to the coronavirus and are facing ...

March 31, 2020

Micropatch Released for Actively Exploited Windows Font Processing Vulnerabilities

Library were being actively exploited in the wild. The flaws concern how type 1 PostScript fonts are handled. The flaws can be exploited if a ...

March 30, 2020

Cybercriminals are Changing DNS Settings on Routers to Deliver Malware Through Fake Coronavirus Apps

A malware distribution campaign has been detected that uses malicious coronavirus apps to deliver the Oski information stealing Trojan. The campaign was detected by Bitdefender ...

March 23, 2020

All Supported Windows Versions Affected by Two Actively Exploited Zero-Day RCE Flaws

Microsoft has issued a security advisory about two actively exploited zero-day flaws in Windows Adobe Type Manager Library. The critical remote code execution vulnerabilities affect ...

March 20, 2020

WHO Director-General Impersonated in Spam Campaign Delivering HawkEye Keylogger and Malware Downloader

Another coronavirus-themed phishing campaign has been detected impersonating the World Health Organization (WHO), or more specifically, the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The ...

March 19, 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic Guidance on Telehealth & HIPAA Released by OCR

After the announcement made by the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights that enforcement of HIPAA compliance linked to the good faith provision of telehealth services ...

March 11, 2020

Microsoft Announces Takedown of Necurs Botnet

Microsoft has announced it has seized the U.S. command and control infrastructure of the Necurs botnet and has taken steps to prevent the infrastructure from ...

March 10, 2020

Microsoft Exchange RCE Vulnerability Being Actively Exploited in the Wild

A post-auth remote code execution vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Microsoft Exchange Server is now being exploited in the wild by multiple advanced persistent ...

March 6, 2020

Vulnerability in Walgreens Mobile App Secure Messaging Feature Made PHI Accessible

Walgreens has started contacting customers to make them aware that a portion of their protected health information may have been accessed by unauthorized individual due ...

March 6, 2020

TrickBot Trojan Gets Trickier with ActiveX Control to Automatically Run Malicious Macros

The TrickBot Trojan is now even trickier now that a Windows 10 ActiveX control has been incorporated to automatically run malicious macros in email Office ...

March 4, 2020

More Than 1 Billion Devices Affected by Kr00k Wi-Fi Encryption Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been identified in Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress which are used in more than a billion devices, according to a ...

February 27, 2020

74% of Phishing Sites Now Use HTTPS

The latest phishing activity trends report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) shows a decline in the number of detected phishing sites after the 3-year ...

February 26, 2020

Phishers’ Favorite Report Reveals Massive Increase in WhatsApp Phishing URLs

The Q4, 2019 Phishers’ Favorite report from email security firm Vade Secure shows PayPal is the most impersonated brand in phishing attacks, making it two ...

February 20, 2020

Q4 2019 Threat Report Reveals Emotet Dominates Threat Landscape

The Q4, 2019 Threat Report from cybersecurity firm Proofpoint has confirmed Emotet was the biggest malware threat in 2019, accounting for 37% of all malicious ...

February 18, 2020

Fresh Warnings Issued About Coronavirus Phishing Scams

Fresh warnings have been issued about coronavirus phishing scams that are being conducted to steal sensitive data and spread malware. Multiple threat actors are taking ...

February 11, 2020

Threat from Phishing Highlighted on Safer Internet Day

Today is Safer Internet Day, a global event aimed at promoting safer use of online technology and the creation of a safe and stimulating online ...

February 7, 2020

Malware Campaign Delivers Package of Seven Malware Variants via BitBucket

Cybereason’s Nocturnus research team has identified a malware distribution campaign that aims to deliver multiple malware variants via the cloud storage platform BitBucket. The researchers ...

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