Following the Washington Post’s expose regarding the spyware created by an Israeli firm, NSO, which had been used by the firm's clients in a questionable way, the political fallout is just beginning. Spyware can be defined as malware designed to track user activity on a device, not only can activity
On the evening of Monday, July 13, 2021, various news outlets began reporting that websites and infrastructure were used by ransomware operators behind the Sodinokibi strain had been taken offline. This resulted in several theories being proposed as to why. Was it a result of legal action? Was it in
Half of 2021 has already blown past and yet again ransomware has dominated infosec headlines. Petroleum distributor Colonial Pipeline, meat supplier JBS, and IT service provider Kaseya have all been in headlines not for stellar business performance but because they have been victims of crippling ran
Just as some were, rather hopefully, predicting that ransomware had peaked given the increased response by the US and other governments to both the Colonial Pipeline and JBS incidents. Ransomware operators behind Sodinokibi, who have also been blamed for the JBS incident, seem not to have received t
The good work done by No More Ransom may be difficult to quantify but it is safe to say that their work releasing free decryptors to be used by victims of ransomware has possibly saved millions of dollars’ worth in damages and ransom payments funding criminal activity. Now with the help of security
It is almost daily that ransomware makes headlines in some form or another. Many of the headlines and subsequent articles cover the latest large corporations to fall victim to a ransomware attack. Recent high-profile attacks, including the Colonial Pipeline Incident and subsequent responses by gove
For any scholar of cybersecurity trends, ransomware provides a unique study. The threat has seen several key evolutions since it first emerged in 2010. The latest evolution seen and documented by two separate security firms involves how ransomware operators are using virtual machines (VMs) to hide a
Hackers are ever increasingly looking to abuse developers and their tools to conduct attack campaigns. Recently this trend has involved hackers uploading malicious packages to popular repositories. In April 2021, it was found that hackers had uploaded malicious code that installed the Mac Shlayer.
For the past several months' hackers have not been friendly to businesses in the gaming industry. CD Projekt Red, Ubisoft, and Crytek have all suffered ransomware incidents. Now it has emerged that EA has suffered a data breach, in which it is believed several games have had their source code stolen
According to a new article published by security firm Morphisec, threat actors are using paid-for Google ads to help distribute several pieces of info stealing malware. This is done by the threat actors abusing the Pay Per Click (PPC) functionality of Google AdWords in such a way that the ads paid f