Tagged: malware

January 30, 2021 @ 4:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ransomware “skyrocketed” last year, however, there might be “fewer culprits” than we may think or expect, according to a report from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. Chainalysis acknowledges that 2020 will “forever be known” as the year of COVID-19, but when it comes to cryptocurrency-related crime,… Read More

December 3, 2020 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain security firm Ciphertrace noted in a blog post published on December 2, 2020 that within the last 24 hours, the company noticed a significant uptick of alerts and comments within the online digital currency community of users’ funds having been stolen through a malicious… Read More

September 9, 2020 @ 7:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NGRAVE, a digital asset security company that claims it has developed the world’s most secure cryptocurrency hardware wallet, reveals that hackers regularly use automated scripts (malicious computer code) that allow them to attack computer systems every 39 seconds (on average 2,244 times per day). The… Read More

September 4, 2020 @ 2:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A hacking group has reportedly introduced new trojan malware that aims to target Fintech service providers. The malicious scripts have been created to gain access to people’s email accounts, steal their passwords and business-related information. The malware scripts have been added to code that has… Read More

August 20, 2020 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Guardicore, a company that aims to protect any digital environment by offering simplified cloud and data center security solutions, reveals that it has found a peer to peer (P2P) botnet, called FritzFrog, that has been regularly breaching SSH services since January of this year. SSH… Read More

December 10, 2019 @ 9:45 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bogdan Nicolescu, 37, and Radu Miclaus, 37, two members of a Romanian gang that controlled a network of at least 40o ooo malware-infected computers, have been sentenced to 18 and 20 years in prison each. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office,… Read More

September 5, 2019 @ 2:19 am By Cali Haan  |  

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro has identified a modification to an older version of “malvertising” malware called Glupteba that uses Bitcoin script to keep it from being expunged off the Internet. In addition to functioning as, “a browser stealer that can steal…browsing history, website cookies…account names and passwords… Read More

August 19, 2019 @ 9:53 pm By Cali Haan  |  

At least twenty local governments in Texas are now coping with a “coordinated ransomware attack on municipality computer systems,” the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) reports. Affected cities and towns are not named in the release. A response is being coordinated by the Texas Division of… Read More

April 23, 2019 @ 9:40 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Microsoft has found that ransomware and cryptomining hackers are finding the most success in Ethiopia, Cameroon, Tanzania and Zambia, while the UAE, South Africa and Namibia have proven themselves as the most secure nations in Africa and the Middle East when it comes to repelling cryptocurrency-motivated… Read More

April 8, 2019 @ 3:38 am By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers are selling and using a potentially devastating “new generation of (Trojan) malware” called Gustuff to hijack bank, cryptocurrency, remittance, and payment details and accounts of Android users, cybersecurity firm Group IB reports. Notably, the malware exploits Android Accessibility Service features designed to help  disabled… Read More

April 2, 2019 @ 8:30 pm By Cali Haan  |  

41% of cyber attacks are deployed against healthcare entities, Canadian Underwriter reports, whereas only 20% of attacks are leveled at financial firms. The information comes from specialist insurer Beazley in its Beazley 2019 Breach Briefing. The reason healthcare targets are preferred, says Beazley, is because unlike… Read More

March 28, 2019 @ 12:55 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers have compromised the personal data of up to 120 000 police officers working in England and Wales, and are believed to be demanding a ransom of cryptocurrencies for the data’s safe return, UK news outlet The Sun reports. Data affected by the breach include… Read More

March 23, 2019 @ 9:30 am By Cali Haan  |  

A comprehensive malware called “CardinalRAT” has been used to target two Israeli Fintech companies, “who write software relating to forex and cryptocurrency trading,” cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Network writes. Attackers appear to be motivated by financial gain. Once installed, CardinalRAT malware allows attackers to: Collect victim information  Update… Read More

March 23, 2019 @ 6:19 am By Cali Haan  |  

Legal intelligence newsletter JD Supra has published an article advising lawyers on what to do in the event that client files are compromised in a data breach. Data breaches attacks on public institutions and private businesses are becoming increasingly common as hackers find more and… Read More

March 20, 2019 @ 6:38 am By Cali Haan  |  

A young hacker from Holland who used Mirai IoT malware to command botnet attacks against Yahoo, the BBC, e-commerce firm Zalando, crypto-trading platforms and gambling sites has been spared additional jail time for his crimes, ZDNet reports. Prosecutors alleged that, in some cases, the hacker… Read More

March 12, 2019 @ 7:55 am By Cali Haan  |  

A hacker has attempted to sell hacked elite college admissions files to teenaged hopefuls waiting to find out if they have made it into their colleges of choice, Consumer Affairs reports. The hacker originally offered to sell files for 1 Bitcoin ($3800 USD)  in a… Read More

March 9, 2019 @ 11:05 am By Cali Haan  |  

PC Magazine is reporting this week on an apparent surge of on-campus cryptomining detected by cybersecurity firm Cisco. The news is noteworthy because, according to urban legend, crypto mining for bitcoins started mostly in dorm rooms and nerd basements. Stealthily, however, corporate crypto miners like… Read More

February 28, 2019 @ 1:04 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Citing miner-attrition from “forks” and declining crypto prices, CoinHive, an in-browser crypto mining software service favored by malicious cryptojackers, will be shutting down in March, ZDNet reports. CoinHive was initially conceived as a way for websites to earn revenue from visitors without having to show… Read More

February 21, 2019 @ 9:44 am By Cali Haan  |  

Australian cloud access security brokerage (CASB) Bitglass has published an article in Security Briefing Australia warning that “cloud resources” have become the most coveted target of hackers pervading cryptocurrency mining malware. “Cloud computing” is essentially the outsourcing of data storage to firms running large data… Read More

February 17, 2019 @ 6:08 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Eight “potentially unwanted applications” (PUAs) identified by cybersecurity researchers at Symantec have been now been removed from the Microsoft Store. The eight fake apps -Fast-search Lite, Battery Optimizer (Tutorials), VPN Browsers+, Downloader for YouTube Videos, Clean Master+ (Tutorials), FastTube, Findoo Browser 2019, and Findoo Mobile… Read More