Cyber Security News

Chinese APT Group Seen Bypassing 2FA
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Chinese APT Group Seen Bypassing 2FA

In a recent report security researchers have found evidence showing that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, APT20, has been able to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) in a recent campaign. Advanced persistent threat (APT) groups are typically defined as groups, more often than not state-sp

Legion Loader Drops a Hornet’s Nest of Malware
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Legion Loader Drops a Hornet’s Nest of Malware

What could be worse than being infected by one piece of malware? The answer is painfully obvious, in that more than one infection is worse. What started as a lame joke may be a reality for organizations infected with Legion Loader. In a recent campaign discovered by researchers, a threat actor is at

Microsoft Reveals Fiendish Phishing Tactics
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Microsoft Reveals Fiendish Phishing Tactics

Phishing, namely the fraudulent attempt to gain an individual's personal information or credit card information via the use of emails and fake websites, continues to be a favored tactic employed by hackers to part users with money and information that can be used for identity theft. In a recent blog

Snatch Ransomware has a New Trick
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Snatch Ransomware has a New Trick

New and novel ways to further a malware main objectives do not happen too often. Hackers prefer to use tried and tested means to distribute and deploy malware. Even the development of new malware is generally done by veteran groups of hackers with a certain skillset. When a new trick is seen interes

Great Cannon Resurrected
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Great Cannon Resurrected

After a two year hiatus the botnet, named Great Cannon, has been resurrected back to life to carry our DDoS attacks. A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the traffic heading to a server, network, or website by flooding the infrastructure with traffic. This

PyXie RAT Stealing Credentials and Passwords
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PyXie RAT Stealing Credentials and Passwords

Researchers have discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT), that is currently being used to steal login credentials, record video, and includes a keylogging component to assist in its objectives. Given the amount of news surfacing regarding ransomware and exploit kits most can be forgiven if they

Exploit Kits are Evolving to Become Fileless
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Exploit Kits are Evolving to Become Fileless

Exploit kits like RIG and Fallout made news headlines for being associated with the distribution of Sodinokibi and GandCrab respectively. By been used to distribute some of ransomware's biggest players researchers have noted a rise in popularity of other hackers and malware authors using exploit kit

New Roboto Botnet Turning Linux Servers into Zombies
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New Roboto Botnet Turning Linux Servers into Zombies

When asked to think of a botnet, any botnet, many researchers and journalists will list Emotet. The botnet is, without doubt, one of the more dangerous Botnets seen in recent memory. Been used to distribute the Ryuk ransomware will most certainly grab headlines and the attention of those who made cy