Towards the end of the holiday season Portland, Oregon-based brewery McMenamins confirmed it had suffered a ransomware attack dating back to December 12, 2021. On December 16, 2021, Bleeping Computer reported that the Brewery has suffered a ransomware incident. The brewery did confirm that it ha
In the NCC Groups monthly threat pulse article it was discovered that the Pysa ransomware strain took the dubious honor of becoming one of the most prolific ransomware strains for the month of November. Attacking businesses has always been on the agenda for those behind Pysa, in the past the publica
What is rapidly turning into one of the major InfoSec talking points for the year the threat posed by potential exploitation of the Log4j2 flaw is increasing exponentially for those who have not patched the popular logging application. In our previous coverage we detailed how threat actors distribut
With the public release of information regarding vulnerability CVE-2021-4428, also known as Log4j2 or Log4Shell, on December 10, 2021, many can be forgiven just letting the news pass by. For players of videogames in the 90s, Log4j2 resembles a save code or even worse a cheat code for a pixel-defined
Recently the potential dangers of online shopping were made apparent over the recent Black Friday period. As soon as that ended the Christmas shopping spree began, and another discovery by security firm Sucuri again shows the dangers of online shopping to both consumers and retailers. According to
In November 2021 this publication covered the return of Emotet after law enforcement agencies around the globe worked to cease the malware’s operations by seizing critical infrastructure. Since the return of the botnet, it has been incredibly active being distributed in several campaigns. Now resear
According to a new report published by Threat Fabric, several malware distribution campaigns have infected almost 300,000 Android users. Infections were carried out by users downloading malicious apps from the Google Play Store containing malware droppers which would then drop banking trojans specif
To say that the cryptocurrency market, now valued at 2.5 trillion USD, has seen its fair share of scams would be an understatement. The latest to affect the cryptocurrency and Non-Fungible Token (NFT) community involves a threat actor targeting enthusiasts on the popular messaging platform Discord.
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) was issued a warning noting that a total of 4,151 retailers had been compromised by hackers attempting to exploit vulnerabilities on checkout pages to divert payments and steal details. The retailers impacted have been informed about the vulnerabilities
Once referred to as the “world’s most dangerous malware,” after almost a year hiatus Emotet is back. This is not the first time the infamous botnet has resurfaced after a long hiatus. This time the reemergence of the botnet has happened after significant law enforcement efforts bring down the botne