According to new research published by Check Point, the ongoing Israel-Hamas war has seen a new version of the SysJoker being actively deployed against targets. The newly discovered version of SysJoker has been written in the Rust programming language, suggesting that it has been completely rewritt
The Rhysida ransomware strain was first brought to wider public attention when it was used in an attack on the Chilean Army in May 2023. Since then, Rhysida operators have claimed they have at least 50 victims worldwide on its data leak website. Now, law enforcement agencies and security firm Forti
On November 10, 2023, news emerged that the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) had suffered a cyber incident. One of the results of the hack was that the bank was on the line for 9 billion USD in unsettled trades. The immediate ramifications of the attack meant that BNY Mellon was owed
Recently published research by Group IB’s threat intelligence team uncovered a threat actor related to five ransomware strains. It gave researchers insider knowledge of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operations. Security researchers looked to infiltrate the RaaS network by applying to be an affilia
On October 20, 2023, Europol announced that authorities had seized Ragnar Locker's extortion and data leak website as part of an international law enforcement operation. A day earlier, Bleeping Computer broke the news and confirmed the law enforcement operation did indeed occur, according to a Euro
Google, Cloudflare, and Amazon recently prevented the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on record. Moreover, the attack employed a new technique not seen before, making the attack's prevention even more special. Amazon defines a DDoS attack as, A Denial of Service (DoS) a
Almost yearly, a major card skimming attack occurs that deserves media attention. Often simply referred to as Magecart attacks, central to these attacks is modifying JavaScript code on the end user side to steal the card data entered by the unsuspecting victim. To carry out this primary function, h
In a recent report by security firm NSFOCUS, details of a new threat actor emerged. Named AtlasCross by researchers, the attack campaign was discovered when researchers discovered suspicious documents that formed part of a phishing campaign. Upon further investigation, researchers believed they stu
On September 11, news reports began emerging stating that MGM Resorts International had suffered a cyber incident and had shut down several critical IT systems. This was soon followed by MGM posting to their Twitter account acknowledging they had suffered a cyber incident. Still, the statement was
Following the publication of new research by security firm Sentinel One, a new infostealer has been seen in the wild. Titled MetaStealer, not to be confused with another info-stealer, META, targets Intel-based MacOS systems. Researchers noted that Apple’s XProtect will detect some instances of