RSA Conference 2019: BEC Scammer Gang Takes Aim at Boy Scouts, Other Nonprofts

SAN FRANCISCO – A Nigeria-based scammer gang dubbed “Scarlet Widow” has been launching email fraud attacks against thousands of targets – including universities, the Salvation Army, and Boy Scouts of America. Researchers with Agari detailed the attack during an RSA Conference session on Tuesday...

Sophisticated phishing: a roundup of noteworthy campaigns

Phishing is a problem nearly as old as the Internet. Yet, criminals continue to reach into their bag of phishing tricks in 2019 because, in a nutshell, it just works. Dialing into the human psyche and capitalizing on emotions such as fear, anxiety, or plain laziness, phishing attacks are successf...

Sextortion Bitcoin scam makes unwelcome return

Heads up: a particularly nasty sextortion Bitcoin scam from at least the middle of 2018 is making the rounds once again. The scam involves making use of old breach dumps, then emailing someone from the list and reminding them of their old password. When something lands in your mailbox with “Hey,...

Informing Your Security Posture: How Cybercriminals Blend into the Background

Maintaining protection over an enterprise's critical data, systems and assets is a continual uphill battle. Not only are chances good that the business's digital footprint is growing through new applications, but hackers are also constantly bolstering their capabilities to silently breach platfor...

Redaman Spams Russian Banking Customers with Rotating Tactics

The Redaman banking trojan ramped up its activity in the last part of 2018, employing ongoing back-end changes in order to evade detection, according to a new Wednesday report. Redaman as a malware first came on the scene in 2015, and since then has consistently targeted victims that use Russian...

Podcast: Emotet Grows With Fast-Evolving Tactics

The Emotet banking trojan has been popping up in the news for years: It has a long history, starting with widespread malspam infections of banking German targets in 2014, all the way up to the crippling ransomware attack that hit the Onslow Water and Sewer Authority in October. And while the...

Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point

ARCHIVED STORY Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point By John Fokker · January 09, 2019 Senior analyst Ryan Sherstobitoff contributed to this report. During the past week, an outbreak of Ryuk ransomware that impeded newspaper printing services in the United States has garner...

Fraudulent Tactics on Amazon Marketplace

Fascinating article about the many ways Amazon Marketplace sellers sabotage each other and defraud customers. The opening example: framing a seller for false advertising by buying fake five-star reviews for their products. Defacement: Sellers armed with the accounts of Amazon distributors sometim...

TA505 Crooks are Now Targeting US Retailers with Personalized Campaigns

Cybercriminals behind the notorious Dridex and Locky ransomware have a new target in their sights – large retail, restaurant and grocery chains located in the US. Researchers are warning the well-known financial criminal group TA505 is behind a new wave of email campaigns distributing personalize...

sLoad Banking Trojan Downloader Displays Sophisticated Recon and Targeting

A new PowerShell downloader dubbed sLoad is making the rounds, sporting impressive reconnaissance tactics and a penchant for geofencing, which indicate increasing sophistication when it comes to targeting efforts. First spotted in May 2018, sLoad typically delivers the Ramnit banking trojan but h...

StrongPity APT Changes Tactics to Stay Stealthy

The APT group behind the sophisticated malware known as StrongPity a.k.a. Promethium has changed its tactics, after various research groups analyzed the malware and exposed its methods of deployment. The efforts have allowed the group to return to hidden status, even after being labeled a known...

Anthem, Apple and the Pentagon: A Data-Breach Cornucopia

Like pumpkin spice and turning leaves, data breaches have become a theme for the fall. This season is shaping up to be no exception, with Anthem, Apple and, worryingly, the Pentagon all making headlines in the last few days. It is, of course, part of the “new normal” as cyberattackers continue to...

Slideshow: Intel from Virus Bulletin 2018

This year’s Virus Bulletin 2018, held in Montreal Oct. 3-5, featured a keynote from Microsoft’s John Lambert and a range of threat intelligence research from BAE Systems, Check Point, Cisco Talos, Citizens Lab, Digita Security, ESET, GoSecure, Kaspersky Lab, Malwarebytes, Sophos Security and more...

Creating a Cyber Panic Room to Fight Off Invasions

Genghis Khan was a mastermind. A terrifyingly brilliant military strategist who altered the course of world history. He used fear to paralyze his enemies. “In one apocryphal account circulated to create anxiety among the enemy, the Mongols supposedly promised to retreat from a besieged city if th...

Cybercriminals Changing Tactics as Seen in First Half Report

Today, Trend Micro released its first half 2018 security roundup report in which we want to share the threat intelligence we discovered through the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network that allows us to identify the threats that have targeted our customer base. Below are some thoughts I’d like to...

Side-Channel Attack Allows Remote Listener to ‘Hear’ On-Screen Images

A stealthy side-channel tactic for digital surveillance has been uncovered, which allows an attacker to “hear” on-screen images. According to a team of academic researchers from Columbia University, the University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Tel Aviv University, inaudible acoustic...

Threat Analysis: Recent Attack Technique Leveraging cmd.exe and PowerShell Demonstrates How Attackers Are Using Trusted Microsoft Applications for Malicious Behavior

An attack leveraging cmd.exe and PowerShell was recently investigated by Cb ThreatSight analysts. Our initial investigation discovered that a batch file was executed on the targeted system. This batch file then invoked PowerShell with a base64 encoded command. Decoding the command revealed a seri...

Future Cyberwar

A report for the Center for Strategic and International Studies looks at surprise and war. One of the report's cyberwar scenarios is particularly compelling. It doesn't just map cyber onto today's tactics, but completely reimagines future tactics that include a cyber component quote starts on pag...

Introducing: Malwarebytes Browser Extension

Are you tired of all the unwanted content the world wide web offers up, whether you like it or not? It is our privilege to introduce you to the Malwarebytes Browser Extension BETA. Or, better said, the Malwarebytes Browser Extensions, because we have one for Firefox and one for Chrome. Introducti...

Sextortionists Shift Scare Tactics to Include Legit Passwords

A fresh take on the classic sextortion scam is making the rounds, with several reports confirming a new wrinkle in approach: The inclusion of a legitimate password in the email for the campaign. Multiple end users have received scam email messages from actors claiming to have taken over the...