2020 was seen by many as a bumper year for DDoS attacks. The survey was conducted by the Neustar International Security Council (NISC) and showed that the majority of those surveyed, 22%, believed the biggest threat they faced was a DDoS attack. Further, the number of respondents that acknowledged t
Schools and Universities continue to be a favored target of ransomware operators. Previously, this publication covered how the US Federal Bureau of Investigation issued an alert warning the education sector that the operators of the Pysa ransomware, a variant of the Mespinoza, was actively being use
Initially discovered in 2018, Purple Fox, a trojan spread by phishing emails and RIG exploits has been seen in several active campaigns since its discovery. Now the malware has added another distribution method to its tool kit. The malware is now capable of being spread via what researchers call a w
Security researchers have discovered a new piece of malware capable of compromising systems running macOS. In particular, the malware targets developers who make use of the Xcode projects integrated developer environment (IDE). Typically, developers developing apps for macOS or iOS make use of Xcode
Researchers at Proofpoint have published a report detailing a newly discovered piece of malware that attempts to steal account information about popular service providers, including Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. Not only does the malware can steal account passwords and cookies but can also dr
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division published an alert on March 16, 2021, warning readers that those behind the Pysa ransomware were actively targeting institution in the education sector. Institutions targeted include higher education, K-12 schools, and seminaries in 12 US state
When news broke that the state-sponsored threat group Hafnium was actively exploiting four Microsoft Exchange zero-days the InfoSec community waited with bated breath to see when other groups would begin to target the same flaws. This would only take a few days till news that the fear of other threa
Security researchers at Proofpoint have discovered a new initial access granting piece of malware written in a programming language rarely used for compiling malicious code. The language used in Nim and is possibly best described as a language being as “fast as C, as expressive as Python, and as ext
Last week this publication covered how the threat group named Hafnium had been seen actively exploiting four separate zero-day flaws found within Microsoft’s Exchange Server packages. A week on and more hackers and threat groups have been seen targeting these flaws to gain access to Exchange Servers
The Ryuk ransomware has long been both a thorn in the side of victims and an unmitigated success for its developers. In a sample of the malware discovered by the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI), the offending ransomware has gone through yet another evolution to