While many of us were enjoying the time spent with family and friends over the festive season, two cryptocurrency platforms were dealing with cyberattacks. In the first incident, BTC.com lost approximately 3 million USD belonging to both customers and the company, following a theft instigated by a c
Android users now have another cyber security worry to add to the growing pile. According to a report published by Threat Fabric, a malware-as-a-service platform advertised on the Darknet can bind malware to legitimate Android apps. This effectively results in victims infecting themselves and evadin
For many security firms, the dangers posed by nation-state threat actors plot the course for the dangers they face from financially motivated threat actors shortly. One such course has been potentially plotted with the discovery that a newly discovered Windows malware that acts like a backdoor is be
In much the same way that GitHub has been used by malicious threat actors to distribute malware, it would not be long until Docker Hub would be abused for similar purposes. In a recent report published by Sysdig over 1,600 publicly available Docker Hub images are been used to hide malicious behavior
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Hive gang has successfully extorted over 100 million USD from approximately 1300 victims dating back to July 2021. Unfortunately, those that refuse to pay are likely to experience further ransomware payloads down the line, which is in line
Robin Banks, the popular phishing-as-a-service (PaaS) platform amongst the cybercriminal underground, has resurfaced after previously having its backend and frontend rendered useless by Cloudflare. Now the platform has found a new hosting partner based in Russia that boasts distributed-denial-of-ser
A sophisticated threat group designated as Cranefly by security firm Symantec is using new techniques and tools to bolster an already comprehensive threat package. Not only is Cranefly using new techniques to further attack campaigns but also a previously undiscovered malware dropper given the name
Ransomware continues to be one of, if not the primary, threat faced by organizations, particularly large corporations. On October 21, UK car dealer Pendragon released a statement to the press saying, “We have identified suspicious activity on part of our IT systems and have confirmed we experi
Security researchers have recently discovered possible links between the relatively new Ransom Cartel and an old foe of many a researcher, Sodinokibi. The latter is also tracked as REvil, a pioneer in how ransomware gangs changed tactics to target large corporations and demand millions in ransom pay
Based on research conducted by Team Cymru, threat actors distributing the IceID malware are experimenting with different delivery methods to find out which works best against different targets. Since Microsoft blocked Macros by default threat actors and malware developers have been forced to find ne