Ransomware Defense: Top 5 Things to Do Right Now

If there is any cyber-threat at the top of everyone’s mind right now, it must be ransomware. Once a “nuisance” threat, ransomware has grown into a layered, multi-billion-dollar industry for attackers. These threat actors are no longer amateurs trying their hand at breaking and entering. Rather, w...

ForgeRock AM code issue vulnerability

ForgeRock AM is an open source access management, privilege control platform with widespread use in universities and social organizations.ForgeRock AM is vulnerable to a code issue that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code by constructing a special...

Pakistan-linked hackers targeted Indian power company with ReverseRat

A threat actor with suspected ties to Pakistan has been striking government and energy organizations in the South and Central Asia regions to deploy a remote access trojan on compromised Windows systems, according to new research. "Most of the organizations that exhibited signs of compromise were...

Command Execution Vulnerability in IceWarp Mail Server

IceWarp Mail Server is an enterprise-grade email, collaboration and mobile solution for organizations of all sizes. A command execution vulnerability exists in IceWarp Mail Server, which can be exploited by an attacker to perform command execution by constructing malicious statements...

EBook – Creating a Large Company Security Stack on a Lean Company Budget

The speed at which malicious actors have improved their attack tactics and continue to penetrate security systems has made going bigger the major trend in cybersecurity. Facing an evolving threat landscape, organizations have responded by building bigger security stacks, adding more tools and...

‘An0m’ Encrypted-Chat Sting Leads to Arrest of 800

Law enforcement agencies have been selling encrypted phones to organized crime gangs for years, monitoring their conversations in what’s being called the biggest law enforcement sting ever. Since 2018, agencies have been overseeing the distribution of hardened, encrypted devices that have enabled...

Securing Privileged Access Within Healthcare Orgs

Healthcare organizations have always been high-value targets for cybercriminals, as their networks store large volumes of personally identifiable information PII including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and very sensitive personal health data. Since the beginning of the COVID-...

Sophisticated Spearphishing Campaign Targets Government Organizations, IGOs, and NGOs

Summary This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the...

Nobelium Phishing Campaign Poses as USAID

The cybercriminal group behind the notorious SolarWinds attack is at it again with a sophisticated mass email campaign aimed at delivering malicious URLs with payloads enabling network persistence so the actors can conduct further nefarious activities. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC...

New sophisticated email-based attack from NOBELIUM

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC has uncovered a wide-scale malicious email campaign operated by NOBELIUM, the threat actor behind the attacks against SolarWinds, the SUNBURST backdoor, TEARDROP malware, GoldMax malware, and other related components. The campaign, initially observed and...

Personal & Professional Challenges Facing SecOps Teams

On the frontline: revealing the personal and professional challenges facing SecOps teams. New research shows that security teams are struggling with overwhelming workloads, and organizations are lacking the solution...

CISOs Struggle to Cope with Mounting Job Stress

The CISOs aren’t OK. A new survey showed the pandemic has ratcheted up job pressure to “extreme stress” levels among chief information security officers CISOs, and it’s left them grappling for coping mechanisms ranging from workouts to narcotics. OneLogin released the results of its survey of 250...

Ransomware’s New Swindle: Triple Extortion

Ransomware attacks are exploding at a staggering rate, and so are the ransoms being demanded. Now experts are warning against a new threat — triple extortion — which means that attackers are expanding out to demand payments from customers, partners and other third parties related to the initial...

Transparent Tribe APT expands its Windows malware arsenal

By Asheer Malhotra, Justin Thattil and Kendall McKay. Transparent Tribe, also known as APT36 and Mythic Leopard, continues to create fake domains mimicking legitimate military and defense organizations as a core component of their operations. Cisco Talos' previous research has mainly linked this...

What We Know About the DarkSide Ransomware and the US Pipeline Attack

Trend Micro Research found dozens of DarkSide ransomware samples in the wild and investigated how the ransomware group operates and what organizations it typically targets...

Joint NCSC-CISA-FBI-NSA Cybersecurity Advisory on Russian SVR Activity

CISA has joined with the United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre NCSC, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the National Security Agency NSA, in releasing a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR tactics, techniques, and procedures. Further TTPs...

Phishing Attacks Spawn Three New Malware Strains

Two waves of global financial phishing attacks that swamped at least 50 organizations in December have delivered three new malware families, according to a report from FireEye’s Mandiant cybersecurity team. On Tuesday, the team said that they’ve dubbed the hitherto-unseen malware strains...

Codecov Releases New Detections for Supply Chain Compromise

CISA is aware of a compromise of the Codecov software supply chain in which a malicious threat actor made unauthorized alterations of Codecov’s Bash Uploader script, beginning on January 31, 2021. Upon discovering the compromise on April 1, 2021, Codecov immediately remediated the affected script...

LuckyMouse Hackers Target Banks, Companies and Governments in 2020

An adversary known for its watering hole attacks against government entities has been linked to a slew of newly detected intrusions targeting various organizations in Central Asia and the Middle East. The malicious activity, collectively named "EmissarySoldier," has been attributed to a threat...

Chinese Hackers Attacking Military Organizations With New Backdoor

Bad actors with suspected ties to China have been behind a wide-ranging cyberespionage campaign targeting military organizations in Southeast Asia for nearly two years, according to new research. Attributing the attacks to a threat actor dubbed "Naikon APT," cybersecurity firm Bitdefender laid ou...