Ukraine Police Warns of New NotPetya-Style Large Scale CyberAttack

Remember NotPetya? The Ransomware that shut down thousands of businesses, organisations and banks in Ukraine as well as different parts of Europe in June this year. Now, Ukrainian government authorities are once again warning its citizens to brace themselves for next wave of "large-scale"...

Q2 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

This week we released our latest Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report, a statistical analysis of more than 15,000 network and application layer DDoS attacks mitigated by Imperva Incapsula services during Q2 2017. This quarter, for the fifth one in a row, we saw a decrease in the number of network...

Significant FormBook Distribution Campaigns Impacting the U.S. and South Korea

We observed several high-volume FormBook malware distribution campaigns primarily taking aim at Aerospace, Defense Contractor, and Manufacturing sectors within the U.S. and South Korea during the past few months. The attackers involved in these email campaigns leveraged a variety of distribution...

gemius.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-300965 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| gemius.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Dragonfly 2.0: Hacking Group Infiltrated European and US Power Facilities

The notorious hacking group that has been in operation since at least 2011 has re-emerged and is still interested in targeting the United States and European companies in the energy sector. Yes, I am talking about the 'Dragonfly,' a well-resourced, Eastern European hacking group responsible for...

Petya expands its scope: A global ransomware threat

Ransomware remains a formidable threat for individual users and businesses alike, particularly as new sample families continue to be discovered by security researchers. What makes ransomware so dangerous is the fact that victims are denied access to their most important files and data - a problem...

Someone DDoSed Ukraine’ national postal service for 48 hours

By Uzair Amir Ukrposhta, the national postal service of Ukraine came under a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Someone DDoSed Ukraine national postal service for 48 hours...

Ukrainian Man Arrested, Charged in NotPetya Distribution

The Cyber Police of Ukraine arrested a suspect they allege distributed the destructive NotPetya/ExPetr malware resulting in the infection of 400 computers. NotPetya/ExPetr was the malware behind a massive global cyberattack that took place earlier this year. It infected computers worldwide with...

How a Citadel Trojan Developer Got Busted

A U.S. District Court judge in Atlanta last week handed a five year prison sentence to Mark Vartanyan, a Russian hacker who helped develop and sell the once infamous and widespread Citadel banking trojan. This fact has been reported by countless media outlets, but far less well known is the...

app.vodafone.ua XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://app.vodafone.ua/store?categoryId=3"=See all Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 30.08.2017 Latest check for patch:| 30.08.2017 07:05 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculated VIP website...

July 19, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Rosetta Stone” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 19, 2017 - Headlines Cyberattack on Ukrainian Clinics, Pharmacies Worries...

Report: Second quarter dominated by ransomware outbreaks

The second quarter of 2017 brought ransomware to unprecedented levels with worldwide outbreaks that went almost out of control. In scenarios reminiscent of yesteryears worms, WannaCry created global panic as it used a critical vulnerability in the SMBv1 protocol to propagate like wildfire. Within...

The MeDoc Connection

This Post Authored by David Maynor, Aleksandar Nikolic, Matt Olney, and Yves YounanSummaryThe Nyetya attack was a destructive ransomware variant that affected many organizations inside of Ukraine and multinational corporations with operations in Ukraine. In cooperation with Cisco Advanced Service...

[Video] Ukrainian Police Seize Servers of Software Firm Linked to NotPetya Cyberattack

Ukrainian National Police has released a video showing officers raiding company of M.E.Doc accounting software makers, whose systems have been linked to outbreak of Petya NotPetya ransomware that recently infected computers of several major companies worldwide. On 4th July, masked police officers...

GoldenEye Malware

I don't have anything to say -- mostly because I'm otherwise busy -- about the malware known as GoldenEye, NotPetya, or ExPetr. But I wanted a post to park links. Please add any good relevant links in the comments...

In ExPetr/Petya’s shadow, FakeCry ransomware wave hits Ukraine

While the cyber-world was still shaking under the destructive ExPetr/Petya attack that hit on June 27, another ransomware attack targeting Ukraine at the same time went almost unnoticed. So far, all theories regarding the spread of ExPetr/Petya point into two directions: Distribution via trojaniz...

From BlackEnergy to ExPetr

Much has been written about the recent ExPetr/NotPetya/Nyetya/Petya outbreak - you can read our findings here:Schroedinger's Petya and ExPetr is a wiper, not ransomware. As in the case of Wannacry, attribution is very difficult and finding links with previously known malware is challenging. In th...

The Law of Unintended Outbreak – Who Is at Risk from Petya?

Hot on the heels of the global WannaCry outbreak in May, yesterday saw a wave of what looked like copycat malware sweeping the globe again. However, on closer inspection there may more to this than meets the eye, more than a simple new variant of an already established ransomware borrowing...

Sberbank Online Ukraine - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Sberbank Online Ukraine published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

New ransomware, old techniques: Petya adds worm capabilities

Note: We have published a follow-up blog entry on this ransomware attack. We have new findings from our continued investigation, as well as platform mitigation and protection information: Windows 10 platform resilience against the Petya ransomware attack. Read our latest comprehensive report on...