Mysterious APT Leaves Curious ‘KilllSomeOne’ Clue

Researchers are scratching their heads when it comes to unmasking a new advanced persistent threat APT group targeting non-governmental organizations in the Southeast Asian nation Myanmar formerly Burma. Based on crude messages, such as “KilllSomeOne”, used in attack code strings, coupled with...

Iran-linked APT Targets T20 Summit, Munich Security Conference Attendees

Microsoft said that an Iranian threat actor has successfully compromised attendees of two global conferences – including ambassadors and senior policy experts – in an effort to steal their email credentials. The two conferences targeted include the Munich Security Conference, slated for Feb. 19 t...

COVID-19 Vaccine-Maker Hit with Cyberattack, Data Breach

COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories has shut down its plants in Brazil, India, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S. following a cyberattack, according to reports. The Indian company is the contractor for Russia’s “Sputinik V” COVID-19 vaccine, which is about to enter Phase 2 human...

Egregor Claims Responsibility for Barnes & Noble Attack, Leaks Data

The Egregor ransomware gang has reportedly taken responsibility for the Barnes & Noble cyberattack, first disclosed on Oct. 15. The bookseller warned last week that it had been hacked in emailed notices to customers, noting that a cyberattack happened on Oct. 10, “which resulted in unauthorized a...

Biden Campaign Staffers Targeted in Cyberattack Leveraging Antivirus Lure, Dropbox Ploy

Hackers sent Joe Biden’s presidential campaign staffers malicious emails that impersonated anti-virus software company McAfee, and used a mix of legitimate services such as Dropbox to avoid detection. The emails were an attempt to steal staffers’ credentials and infect them with malware. The...

Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet

Microsoft Corp. has executed a coordinated legal sneak attack in a bid to disrupt the malware-as-a-service botnet Trickbot, a global menace that has infected millions of computers and is used to spread ransomware. A court in Virginia granted Microsoft control over many Internet servers Trickbot...

Universal Health Services Ransomware Attack Impacts Hospitals Nationwide

A ransomware attack has shut down Universal Health Services, a Fortune-500 owner of a nationwide network of hospitals. The attack occurred in the wee hours of the morning on Monday, according to reports coming in from employees on Reddit and other platforms. On Reddit, a discussion with hundreds ...

Feds Hit with Successful Cyberattack, Data Stolen

A federal agency has suffered a successful espionage-related cyberattack that led to a backdoor and multistage malware being dropped on its network. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued an alert on Thursday, not naming the agency but providing technical details of...

Ukraine National Police website down after hacker intrusion

By Waqas The cyberattack on the Ukraine National Police website carried out around 11:45 Wednesday, 23 September 2020 EEST. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ukraine National Police website down after hacker intrusion...

Documented Death from a Ransomware Attack

A Dusseldorf woman died when a ransomware attack against a hospital forced her to be taken to a different hospital in another city. I think this is the first documented case of a cyberattack causing a fatality. UK hospitals had to redirect patients during the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack, but...

Unsecured Microsoft Bing Server Exposed Users' Search Queries and Location

A back-end server associated with Microsoft Bing exposed sensitive data of the search engine's mobile application users, including search queries, device details, and GPS coordinates, among others. The logging database, however, doesn't include any personal details such as names or addresses. The...

California Elementary Kids Kicked Off Online Learning by Ransomware

As students head back to the classroom, the spate of ransomware attacks against schools is continuing. The latest is a strike against a California school district that closed down remote learning for 6,000 elementary school students, according to city officials. The cyberattack, against the Newha...

Hackers Continue Cyberattacks Against Vatican, Catholic Orgs

A state-sponsored threat group linked to China has been engaged in a five-month long cyberattack against the Vatican and other Catholic Church-related organizations. Attacks have come in the form of spear phishing emails laced with the PlugX remote access tool RAT as the payload. Researchers with...

New Report Explains COVID-19's Impact on Cyber Security

Most cybersecurity professionals fully anticipated that cybercriminals would leverage the fear and confusion surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic in their cyberattacks. Of course, malicious emails would contain subjects relating to Covid-19, and malicious downloads would be Covid-19 related. This is...

Data Breaches Expose Vets, COVID-19 Patients

A pair of healthcare-related data breaches at high-profile government agencies has impacted tens of thousands of people. First, a cyberattack at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs VA has impacted about 46,000 veterans, exposing their financial information. And another incident, at the U.K.’s...

Cloud Leak Exposes 320M Dating-Site Records

Users of 70 different adult dating and e-commerce websites have had their personal information exposed, thanks to a misconfigured, publicly accessible Elasticsearch cloud server. In all, 320 million individual records were leaked online, researchers said. All of the impacted websites have one thi...

New Twitter phishing scam inspired from Twitter’s latest security response

By Sudais Asif Crooks are using the July 15th's cyberattack on Twitter to carry out phishing scam designed to steal the login credentials of unsuspected users. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Twitter phishing scam inspired from Twitters latest security response...

Elon Musk Confirms, Tesla Factory A Target of Foiled Cyberattack

Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk has confirmed reports that the Tesla Gigafactory Nevada was a target of a cyberattack earlier in August, which was subsequently thwarted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Tesla Gigafactory Nevada is a lithium-ion battery and electric vehicle factory near...

How can Microsoft Threat Protection help reduce the risk from phishing?

Microsoft Threat Protection can help you reduce the cost of phishing The true cost of a successful phishing campaign may be higher than you think. Although phishing defenses and user education have become common in many organizations, employees still fall prey to these attacks. This is a problem...

CWT Travel Agency Faces $4.5M Ransom in Cyberattack, Report

CWT, a giant in the corporate travel agency world with a global clientele, may have faced payment of $4.5 million to unknown hackers in the wake of a ransomware attack. Independent malware hunter @JAMESWT tweeted on Thursday that a malware sample used against CWT formerly known as Carlson Wagonli...