Recently, this publication reported on how APT28, the infamous Russian nation-state threat actor, changed tactics to target the Norwegian parliament and recent US elections. Rather than the favored method of using spear phishing to initially compromise victims and steal credentials, the group employ
According to the Norwegian police secret service (PST), APT28 is also known as Fancy Bear was behind a recent cyberattack on the Norwegian Parliament. The attack happened in August 2020 with hackers gaining access to the Parliament's email system and accessed inboxes for Stortinget (Parliament) empl
The botnet called TrickBot and its operators has been a pain in the side of cybersecurity experts for years now. In October, Microsoft announced that the tech giant had partnered with several security firms and internet service providers that it had attempted to cripple TrickBot’s infrastructure. It
It is not an underestimation by any means to say that ransomware dominates the InfoSec news feed. This has been the case for several years but 2020 is surely breaking all the past records. With ransomware dominating the headlines a few other malware trends for the year have crept by almost unnoticed
Since Egregor’s discovery in late September early October of 2020, the ransomware has wrecked a bloody toll in the short time it has been actively claiming victims. The first few of which included Barnes and Noble, Crytek, and Ubisoft. Since the apparent retirement of the Maze ransomware gang, Egreg
Late last week KrebsOnSecurity reported that GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain register, had been involved in a cyber-attack using social engineering tactics to first trick GoDaddy employees the target several cryptocurrency trading platforms. This incident, involving GoDaddy staff comes a few mon
Those behind the Mount Locker ransomware are looking to ruin an already stressful time for some, the tax return season. The ransomware strain is actively looking to target file extensions used by TurboTax, a software package developed to help US users with their tax returns. Mount Locker is a relati
Since the start of 2020 researchers have seen an almost continuous run of ZLoader campaigns. Initially distributed via exploit kits, malicious programs that look to exploit several known flaws, typically found in Internet Explorer. In the most recent campaigns discovered by researchers based at Malw
In a recently published blog post, ESET has revealed a new point-of-sale (POS) malware being used to target the already under pressure hospitality sector given the current impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the sector. POS Malware can be seen as any malicious program which can be installed on d
In a new report published by Mandiant, the research wing of security firm FireEye, details of a hacking group utilizing a zero-day flaw found in Oracle’s Solaris operating system have been released to the public. The threat actor codenamed UNC1945, who made use of the flaw has been seen targeting te