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Malspam Campaign Milks Election Uncertainty
Threat actors have taken advantage of the ongoing uncertainty around the 2020 U.S. election to unleash a new malspam campaign aimed at spreading the Qbot trojan. Criminals behind Qbot resurfaced the day after the election with a wave of spam emails that attempt to lure victims with messages...
Streaming Traffic Peaks on Election Night
Preliminary data shows live news streaming traffic peaked at approximately 18 Tbps on Akamai's Intelligent Edge platform during coverage of the U.S. Presidential Election on November 3rd. That's roughly 5X greater than traffic on a typical day and more than double the 7.5 Tbps peak we observed...
QBot Trojan delivered via malspam campaign exploiting US election uncertainties
This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura and Hossein Jazi. The 2020 US elections have been the subject of intense scrutiny and emotions, while happening in the middle of a global pandemic. As election night ended and uncertainty regarding the results began to creep in, threat actors decided t...
Donald Trump Hasn't ‘Already Won’ the Election
Despite the president’s claims of victory, his reelection bid depends on a huge number of votes that have yet to be counted...
At Least Election Day Didn't Melt Down
With most polls closed, the worst-case scenarios about ransomware and misinformation meltdowns have seemingly not come to pass...
Can I Vote Online?
Election Day can be confusing, even if you're locked in on Joe Biden or Donald Trump. Here's what to know before you go to the polls...
Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Identified Obtaining Voter Registration Data
Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® version 8 framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise version 8 for all referenced threat actor techniques. This joint cybersecurity advisory was coauthored by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...
A week in security (October 26 – November 1)
We had a very busy week at Malwarebytes Labs. We offered advice on Googles patch for an actively exploited zero-day bug that affects Chrome users, our podcast talked about finding consumer value in Cybersecurity Awareness Month with Jamie Court, we provided guidance about keeping ransomware cash...
Crippling Cyberattacks, Disinformation Top Concerns for Election Day
What keeps researchers up at night leading up to Nov. 3 isn’t election-day winners and losers. Most cite possible attacks on local infrastructure, crippling ransomware incidents and disinformation campaigns. There are also many concerned voters this year. Election-related cybersecurity attacks ha...
Halloween News Wrap: Zombie Bugs, Hospital Deaths and Other Scary Cyberattack Stories
This Halloween week, Threatpost editors discuss the spookiest security stories, including: A wave of ransomware attacks targeting a number of hospitals, sparking worries about healthcare security and the impact on patients during COVID-19 “Zombie” vulnerabilities – including Zerologon and SMBGhos...
Beers with Talos ep. #95: Election 2020 – Advice for voters and election officials
Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 95 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos:Apple Podcasts Google PodcastsSpotify StitcherIf iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. By Mitch Neff. Recorded Oct. 9, 2020 We are running a short bench today afte...
The Threat of DDoS Attacks Creates A Recipe for Election Chaos
Four years ago, we published a blog on the ways a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack could disrupt the U.S. Presidential election. Unfortunately, the same risk persists in 2020. In fact, given the historic influx of mail-in ballot voting for the November 3 election, a targeted DDoS attack...
How Maria Barsallo Lynch Helps Combat the Spread of Misinformation and Disinformation Ahead of the Election
In our most recent episode of Security Nation, we spoke with Maria Barsallo Lynch, Executive Director of the Defending Digital Democracy Project D3P at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, about her work informing election officials of the rise of...
Cyber Insecurity: Securing the Vote in the 2020 Election
Ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, there are a number of cybersecurity threats looming. In an unprecedented year, we have already begun to see foreign interference,1 government agencies hit with ransomware attacks2, the National Guard deployed by state and local governments to assist...
Election Security: How Mobile Devices Are Shaping the Way We Work, Play and Vote
The line between our personal and professional lives is blurring in an unprecedented fashion as we approach the 2020 presidential election. From Oracle and Walmart’s plans to invest in TikTok to a bug in Joe Biden’s campaign app that exposed millions of voter files – the role mobile technology wi...
Trump Campaign Website Defaced by Cryptocurrency Scam
UPDATE Hackers took over President Trump’s 2020 election campaign website late Tuesday, replacing parts of the site with a cryptocurrency scam before returning it to its original content several minutes later. Journalist Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler was the first to notice the attack while he was...
Georgia Election Data Hit in Ransomware Attack
Ransomware gangs have officially entered the 2020 election fray, with reports of one of the first breaches of the voting season, on Hall County, Ga. The county’s database of voter signatures was impacted in the attack along with other government systems. Although the county said the voting proces...
From the Dorm Room to the White House: How Researcher Jack Cable Works to Ensure Election Security
In a recent episode of Security Nation, Rapid7 welcomed Jack Cable, a junior at Stanford University and employee of the U.S. Cybersecutiy and Infrastructure Security Agency, to discuss the importance of ensuring election security beyond just voting machines. Read on as he shares how to fight...
Feds: Iran Behind 'Proud Boys' Email Attacks on Democratic Voters
Federal officials claim that Iranian threat actors are behind two separate email campaigns that assailed Democratic voters this week with threats to “vote for Trump or else.” The campaigns claimed to be from violent extremist group Proud Boys. Two specific email campaigns — one on Tuesday Oct. 20...