CISA Updates Advisory on #StopRansomware: Cuba Ransomware

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and CISA have updated joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA22-335A: StopRansomware: Cuba Ransomware, originally released on December 01, 2022. The advisory has been updated to include additional indicators of compromise IOCs. CISA encourages organizations to revi...

Hack-for-Hire Group Targets Travel and Financial Entities with New Janicab Malware Variant

Travel agencies have emerged as the target of a hack-for-hire group dubbed Evilnum as part of a broader campaign aimed at legal and financial investment institutions in the Middle East and Europe. The attacks, which took place during 2020 and 2021 and likely went as far back as 2015, involved a...

Using XDR to Consolidate and Optimize Cybersecurity Technology

Businesses know they need cybersecurity, but it seems like a new acronym and system is popping up every day. Professionals that aren't actively researching these technologies can struggle to keep up. As the cybersecurity landscape becomes more complicated, organizations are desperate to simplify...

New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

Ransomware groups are constantly devising new methods for infecting victims and convincing them to pay up, but a couple of strategies tested recently seem especially devious. The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them...

CISA Releases Phishing Infographic

Today, CISA published a Phishing Infographic to help protect both organizations and individuals from successful phishing operations. This infographic provides a visual summary of how threat actors execute successful phishing operations. Details include metrics that compare the likelihood of certa...

Cyber Insurance Policy Underwriting Explained

Cybersecurity insurance is a must have for organizations of any size. John Hennessy, RVP at Cowbell discusses cyber insurance policy underwriting process, market trends, and the key security controls for businesses...

Reflected XSS in Organizations Search

Description Reflected cross-site scripting vulnerabilities arise when data is copied from a request and echoed into the application's immediate response in an unsafe way. An attacker can use the vulnerability to construct a request that, if issued by another application user, will cause JavaScrip...

Expanding API Security Awareness at API World

API security should be a primary concern for organizations. Learn about the three principles of APIs to help protect against attacks...

Crimeware and financial cyberthreats in 2023

A look back on the year 2022 and what to expect in 2023 Every year, as part of the Kaspersky Security Bulletin, we predict which major trends will be followed in the coming year by attackers, who target financial organizations. The predictions, based on our extensive experience, help individuals...

The DTrack Backdoor campaigns aimed European organizations

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary DTrack, a malware developed by the Lazarus group is a flexible backdoor that unloads malware in stages. It is dispersed with filenames that are routinely used in legitimate executables. The backdoor is...

CISA Updates Advisory on Threat Actors Exploiting Multiple CVEs Against Zimbra Collaboration Suite

CISA and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center MS-ISAC have updated joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA22-228A: Threat Actors Exploiting Multiple CVEs Against Zimbra Collaboration Suite, originally released August 16, 2022. The advisory has been updated to include an additional Malwar...

OPERA1ER APT Hackers Targeted Dozens of Financial Organizations in Africa

A French-speaking threat actor dubbed OPERA1ER has been linked to a series of more than 30 successful cyber attacks aimed at banks, financial services, and telecom companies across Africa, Asia, and Latin America between 2018 and 2022. According to Singapore-headquartered cybersecurity company...

APT trends report Q3 2022

For more than five years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. These summaries are based on our threat intelligence research; and they provide a representative snapshot of what we have publishe...

US agencies issue warning about DAIXIN Team ransomware

The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and the Department of Health and Human Services HHS have issued a joint advisory about DAIXIN Team, a fledgling ransomware and data exfiltration group that has been targeting US healthcare. First spotted in June 2022, the DAIXIN Team...

CISA Adds Six Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added six vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: to view the newly added...

The Spyder Loader malware targets organizations in Hong Kong

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Spyder Loader malware was first publicly documented in March 2021. The recent Spyder Loader malware campaign appears to have had the ultimate goal of information theft, and the threat actor behind th...

NSA Alert: Topmost CVEs Actively Exploited By People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors

On October 6, 2022, the United States National Security Agency NSA released a cybersecurity advisory on the Chinese government—officially known as the People’s Republic of China PRC states-sponsored cyber actors activity to seek national interests. These malicious cyber activities attributed to t...

Akamai Aids India Through Corporate Social Responsibility Partnerships

Akamai’s Corporate Social Responsibility Trust partners with nonprofit organizations to help enhance the lives of people across India...

Incident Response Services & Playbooks Guide

63% of c-level executives in the US don’t have an incident response plan yet 50% of organizations experience a cyberattack. Explore incident response services and playbooks to strengthen your cyber defenses...

Cyber Tools and Foreign Policy: A False Flag Chinese “APT” and Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan

Cyber Tools and Foreign Policy: A False Flag Chinese “APT” and Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan By Anne An · September 29, 2022 Preface U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan led to an aftershock across the Taiwan Strait and through the Asia Pacific region. Immediately after Pelosi’s...