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Lazarus APT was found hitting job seekers in the U.S. and Europe with malicious emails
Executive summary AT&T Alien Labs™ has observed new activity that has been attributed to the Lazarus adversary group potentially targeting engineering job candidates and/or employees in classified engineering roles within the U.S. and Europe. This assessment is...
Global Phishing Campaign Targets Energy Sector and its Suppliers
Source: INTEZER Written by: Nicole Fishbein and Ryan Robinson The Intezer research team has found a sophisticated campaign, active for at least one year, targeting large international companies in the energy, oil & gas, and electronics industries. The attack also...
Kaseya attack was coded to avoid Russian computer systems, Kaseya delays SaaS restore
Hackers don't want to annoy the local authorities The ransomware used in last week's attack against software firm Kaseya used code designed to avoid computer systems whose default languages came from the former USSR region. The finding is from cybersecurity...
Biden Pressured to Act on ‘Russian’ Ransomware, Hacking
Top US officials met at the White House on stopping ransomware Wednesday, as pressure mounted on President Joe Biden to take action against Russia over cyberattacks. Days after hundreds of companies in the US and around 1,500 worldwide saw their computer systems...
Non-Malicious Android Crypto Mining Apps Scam Users at Scale
With no bad behaviour, the mobile apps are difficult to detect by automated security scans Between March 2020 and March 2021, the value of bitcoin rose from $6,483 to $58,734 (Statista.com). The value is roughly $32,500 at the time of publishing. There's money in...
Install immediately: Microsoft delivers emergency patch for PrintNightmare security bug
Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for the security flaw known as PrintNightmare that is under attack already and lets attackers take control of a PC. The PrintNightmare bug is being tracked as CVE-2021-1675 and CVE-2021-34527. It's a critical bug in the...
Protecting your organizations against BEC and other email attacks
No matter who you talk to or work with, they probably use email as a primary means of communication. Most of us spend about 5 hours a day checking email, sometimes refreshing our inboxes even while in meetings or during meals. Email is integrated into almost every...
REvil Used 0-Day in Kaseya Ransomware Attack, Demands $70 Million Ransom
Amidst the massive supply-chain ransomware attack that triggered an infection chain compromising thousands of businesses on Friday, new details have emerged about how the notorious Russia-linked REvil cybercrime gang may have pulled off the unprecedented hack. The...
Awareness of cyberattacks and cybersecurity may be lacking among workers
One of the key ways to defend your organization against cyberattacks involves your own employees. In order to protect themselves and your business against phishing campaigns, malware and other types of attacks, your workers should have a certain awareness of cyber...
Ransomware breach at Florida IT firm Kaseya hits 200 businesses
WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - Hundreds of American businesses were hit Friday by an unusually sophisticated ransomware attack that hijacked widely used technology management software from a Miami-based supplier called Kaseya. The attackers changed a Kaseya tool...