The single event that much of the world feared would happen as soon as Russian military forces were assembled on the borders of Ukraine and within Belarus happened during the early hours of Thursday morning. The result of the invasion has unleashed a raft of sanctions on the Russian financial system
For the past four years, the name TrickBot has been featured in numerous conversations and articles, including this publication. We have covered how the malware has survived several takedowns only to return improved and ready to pave the way for ransomware gangs to encrypt high-value targets network
According to a recently published article by the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team threat actors are quickly making great strides in targeting new emergent web technologies to conduct attack campaigns. Threat actors have now moved to target blockchain and Web3 applications with credential phishin
Many, particularly in North America, are still dealing with the hangover from the Super Bowl. Some overindulged if they won, and others looked to drown their sorrows. For the San Francisco 49ers who did not even play in the Super Bowl, any disappointment in not playing was impacted by a cyberattack
A ransomware developer has just recently leaked the decryption keys for three separate ransomware strains, all of which have caused no small amount of pain for numerous victims. The leak was made on Bleeping Computer’s forum, a platform used by many to remediate ransomware infections and discover mo
In terms of cyber security when North Korea is in the headlines it is generally as the attacker stealing vast sums of money or cryptocurrency and developing new malware strains and toolsets that keep security researchers busy. Put differently North Korean hackers are highly skilled at making a
It has been a bust week for advanced persistent threat (APT) groups if the cyber threat news cycle is anything to go off of. APT27, APT29, and Lazarus Group have all made the headlines on various platforms within a few days of one another. While this should not be read as a ramping up of activity pr
In the second half of 2021, this publication covered the emergence of a Linux variant of the BlackMatter ransomware. The group behind the ransomware strain would make the news again when the group behind BlackMatter would cease operations following a law enforcement crackdown on several ransomware g
The US Treasury Department announced that the department had sanctioned four Ukrainian individuals under suspicion that they had “engaged in Russian government-directed influence activities to destabilize Ukraine”. These efforts are believed to be done with the view of assisting any military effort
Since the middle of December 2021, a new ransomware strain seemed to have emerged. Initially, famed ransomware hunter and researcher Michael Gillespie took to Twitter to see if anyone had managed to get a sample of the strain now called White Rabbit, which certainly would have picked up the ears of