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Portugal Media Giant Impresa Crippled by Ransomware AttackMedia Giant Impresa Crippled by Ransomware Attack
Media giant Impresa, which owns the largest television station and newspaper in Portugal, was crippled by a ransomware attack just hours into 2022. The suspected ransomware gang behind the attack goes by the name Lapsus$. The attack included Impresa-owned website Expresso newspaper and television...
Researchers Detail New HomeKit 'doorLock' Bug Affecting Apple iOS
A persistent denial-of-service DoS vulnerability has been discovered in Apple's iOS mobile operating system that's capable of sending affected devices into a crash or reboot loop upon connecting to an Apple Home-compatible appliance. The behavior, dubbed "doorLock," is trivial in that it can be...
Detecting Evasive Malware on IoT Devices Using Electromagnetic Emanations
Cybersecurity researchers have proposed a novel approach that harnesses electromagnetic field emanations from the Internet of Things IoT devices as a side-channel to glean precise knowledge about the different kinds of malware targeting the embedded systems, even in scenarios where obfuscation...
Are Medical Devices at Risk of Ransomware Attacks?
In May 2017, the first documented ransomware assault on networked medical equipment happened. The worldwide ransomware assault WannaCry compromised radiological and other instruments in several hospitals during its height, after a software failure caused by a cyberattack on its third-party vendor...
What angered us most about cybersecurity in 2021: Lock and Code S03E01
We are just three days into 2022, which means what better time for a 2021 retrospective? But rather than looking at the biggest cyberattacks of last year—which we already did—or the most surprising—like we did a couple of years ago—we wanted to offer something different for readers and listeners...
What the Rise in Cyber-Recon Means for Your Security Strategy
As we move into 2022, bad actors are ramping up their reconnaissance efforts to ensure more successful and more impactful cyberattacks. And that means more zero-day exploits are on the horizon. When seen through an attack chain such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework, campaigns are frequently discusse...
Happy 12th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com!
KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 12th anniversary today! Maybe "celebrate" is too indelicate a word for a year wracked by the global pandemics of COVID-19 and ransomware. Especially since stories about both have helped to grow the audience here tremendously in 2021. But this sites birthday also...
The three most significant cyberattacks of 2021
People that predict tomorrow’s weather by looking at today’s are often right. Cloudy today? Itll probably be cloudy tomorrow. The same is often true for cybersecurity threats. Looking back at 2021 it looks a lot like 2020: A lot of ransomware attacks. So, when I was asked to write about the three...
2021 in Review, Part 2: 5 Top Cybersecurity Stories
Ransomware may have dominated headlines in 2021, but it’s only one of many threats security teams must protect against. We’re taking a look back at 5 top cybersecurity stories of 2021 that practitioners wanted to learn more about. 5. The State of Security in eCommerce Why you should learn more...
2021 Wants Another Chance (A Lighter-Side Year in Review)
Dear everybody who’s developed stress-related hives over the ever-evolving Log4Shell cluster-muck: 2021 has asked us to convey its apologies. And it hastens to add, “Awww, geez, c’mon, it wasn’t all bad.” Indeed, amid all of the serious cybersecurity developments, the year also brought us...
Global Cyberattacks from Nation-State Actors Posing Greater Threats
The macro-trend I’m most alarmed by today is the fact that attackers don’t seem to care about getting caught anymore. We have seen an increase in temerity of attacks by nation-states, such as the Russian attack on SolarWinds, and seen their attack tactics shift from targeted, stealthy operations...
The 5 Most-Wanted Threatpost Stories of 2021
As 2021 draws to a close, and the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, it’s time to take stock of what resonated with our 1 million+ monthly visitors this year, with an eye to summing up some hot trends gleaned from looking at the most-read stories on the Threatpost site. While 2020 was all about...
A week in security (Dec 20 – 26)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: When a deepfake “empire” continues to grow Everything you always wanted to know about NFTs but were too afraid to ask: Lock and Code S02E24 Police forces pipe 225 million pwned passwords into ‘Have I Been Pwned?’ Logistics giant warns of scams following ransomware...
Rook: New Ransomware in the market scavenges code from Babuk
THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Security researchers found new ransomware dubbed as Rook that reuses the code from Babuk which was released earlier. It was initially seen on VirusTotal on November 26th and pwned its first victim, a Kazkh financial...
The Worst Hacks of 2021
It was a year of ransomware, surveillance, data breaches, and yes, more ransomware...
New Ransomware Variants Flourish Amid Law Enforcement Actions
Ransomware groups continue to evolve their tactics and techniques to deploy file-encrypting malware on compromised systems, notwithstanding law enforcement's disruptive actions against the cybercrime gangs to prevent them from victimizing additional companies. "Be it due to law enforcement,...
Logistics giant warns of scams following ransomware attack
German logistics giant Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has issued a warning that data was stolen from the company when it was hit with a ransomware attack on December 9, 2021. It is not entirely clear what type of data was extracted, but the company says it is warning partners and customers to doubl...
A week in security (Dec 13 – 19)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Spear phish, whale phish, regular phish: What’s the difference? Kronos crippled by ransomware, service may be out for weeks 5 security lessons from 18 months of working from home What SMBs can do to protect against Log4Shell attacks After Log4j, December’s Patch...
Conti Ransomware Group Exploiting Log4j Vulnerability
By Deeba Ahmed These attacks started on December 13 in which the group focused on targeting VMWare vCenter servers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Conti Ransomware Group Exploiting Log4j Vulnerability...