Ransomware: How executives should prepare given the current threat landscape

By Nate Pors. Top executives are increasingly dreading the phone call from their fellow employees notifying them that their company has been hit by a cyber attack. Nearly every week in 2021 and early 2022, a prominent organization has been in the media spotlight as their public relations team...

APT34 targets Jordan Government using new Saitama backdoor

On April 26th, we identified a suspicious email that targeted a government official from Jordans foreign ministry. The email contained a malicious Excel document that drops a new backdoor named Saitama. Following our investigation, we were able to attribute this attack to the known Iranian Actor...

Ukraine Warns of Cyber attack Aiming to Hack Users' Telegram Messenger Accounts

Ukraine's technical security and intelligence service is warning of a new wave of cyber attacks that are aimed at gaining access to users' Telegram accounts. "The criminals sent messages with malicious links to the Telegram website in order to gain unauthorized access to the records, including th...

Hackers Increasingly Using 'Browser-in-the-Browser' Technique in Ukraine Related Attacks

A Belarusian threat actor known as Ghostwriter aka UNC1151 has been spotted leveraging the recently disclosed browser-in-the-browser BitB technique as part of their credential phishing campaigns exploiting the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The method, which masquerades as a legitimate domain ...

Okta Says It Goofed in Handling the Lapsus$ Attack

On Friday, Okta – the authentication firm-cum-Lapsus$-victim – admitted that it “made a mistake” in handling the recently revealed Lapsus$ attack. The mistake: trusting that a service provider had told Okta everything it needed to know about an “unsuccessful” account takeover ATO at one of its...

Nation-State Crosshairs: France, Germany & United Kingdom

In the Nation-State Crosshairs: France, Germany & the United Kingdom By Trellix · March 28, 2022 Today Trellix and the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS released a global report, In the Crosshairs: Organizations and Nation-State Cyber Threats, examining security professionals’...

Nation-State Crosshairs: Australia, India & Japan

In The Nation-State Crosshairs: Australia, India & Japan By Trellix · March 28, 2022 Today Trellix and the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS released a global report, In the Crosshairs: Organizations and Nation-State Cyber Threats, examining security professionals’ mindsets...

DOJ Indicts Russian Gov’t Employees Over Targeting Power Sector

The U.S. Department of Justice DOJ has indicted four Russian government employees in connection to plots to cyber-fry critical infrastructure in the United States and beyond, including at least one nuclear power plant. The campaigns involved one of the most dangerous malwares ever encountered in...

North Korean Hackers Exploited Chrome Zero-Day to Target Fintech, IT, and Media Firms

Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG on Thursday disclosed that it acted to mitigate threats from two distinct government-backed attacker groups based in North Korea that exploited a recently-uncovered remote code execution flaw in the Chrome web browser. The campaigns, once again "reflective of th...

Bridgestone Hit as Ransomware Torches Toyota Supply Chain

On Friday, Bridgestone Corp. admitted that a subsidiary experienced a ransomware attack in February, prompting it to shut down the computer network and production at its factories in North and Middle America for about a week, said Reuters. Among other things, Bridgestone is a major supplier of...

Ukraine Secret Service Arrests Hacker Helping Russian Invaders

The Security Service of Ukraine SBU said it has detained a "hacker" who offered technical assistance to the invading Russian troops by providing mobile communication services inside the Ukrainian territory. The anonymous suspect is said to have broadcasted text messages to Ukrainian officials,...

German Government Warns Against Using Russia's Kaspersky Antivirus Software

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky on Tuesday responded to an advisory released by Germany's Federal Office of Information Security BSI against using the company's security solutions in the country over "doubts about the reliability of the manufacturer." Calling that the decision was made on...

Destructive data wipers and worms targeting Ukrainian organizations

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have jointly released an advisory and warned of an ongoing cyber attack using destructive malware targeting organizations in Ukrai...

Hackers Who Broke Into NVIDIA's Network Leak DLSS Source Code Online

American chipmaking company NVIDIA on Tuesday confirmed that its network was breached as a result of a cyber attack, enabling the perpetrators to gain access to sensitive data, including source code purportedly associated with its Deep Learning Super Sampling DLSS technology. "We have no evidence...

Anonymous hacks Russian TV channels & EV charging station with pro-Ukraine messages

By Waqas Anonymous hackers took the responsibility for the attack on Russian State TV channels on February 26th, 2022. Anonymous,… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous hacks Russian TV channels & EV charging station with pro-Ukraine messages...

Official website of Russian Parliament, MoD and Kremlin go offline

By Waqas The Kremlin domain is the official website of President Vladimir Putin which according to NetBlocks is among the… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Official website of Russian Parliament, MoD and Kremlin go offline...

Iranian State Broadcaster Clobbered by ‘Clumsy, Buggy’ Code

Footage of opposition leaders calling for the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader ran on several of the nation’s state-run TV channels in late January after a state-sponsored cyber-attack on Iranian state broadcaster IRIB. The incident – one of a series of politically motivated attacks in Iran...

BlackByte Tackles the SF 49ers & US Critical Infrastructure

The San Francisco 49ers were recently kneecapped by a BlackByte ransomware attack that temporarily discombobulated the NFL team’s corporate IT network on the Big Buffalo Wing-Snarfing Day itself: Superbowl Sunday. BlackByte – a ransomware-as-a-service RaaS gang that leases its ransomware to...

SAP to Give Threat Briefing on Uber-Severe ‘ICMAD’ Bugs

There’s a trio of critical vulnerabilities, fixed on Tuesday, in SAP business applications that use the ubiquitous Internet Communication Manager ICM: the component that gives SAP products the HTTPS web server they need to connect to the internet or talk to each other. The vulnerabilities,...

Iranian state-sponsored APT group MuddyWater targeting organizations via malicious executables

THREAT LEVEL: Red. United States Cyber Command USCYBERCOM has warned of an ongoing cyber attack by Iranian state sponsored actor named as MuddyWater. This APT group is currently targeting Middle Eastern countries and has also targeted European and North American nations. The Iranian-backed...