Month: April 2024
International support for a coordinated takedown The operation, according to the statement, had begun in June 2022 after Met detectives received intelligence on LabHost from Cyber Defence Alliance (CDA), an international non-profit for cyber threat intelligence. “Once the scale of site and the linked fraud became clear the Met’s Cyber Crime Unit joined forces with…
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As many as 37 individuals have been arrested as part of an international crackdown on a cybercrime service called LabHost that has been used by criminal actors to steal personal credentials from victims around the world. Described as one of the largest Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) providers, LabHost offered phishing pages targeting banks, high-profile organizations, and other…
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Apr 18, 2024NewsroomMobile Security / Malware A new Android trojan called SoumniBot has been detected in the wild targeting users in South Korea by leveraging weaknesses in the manifest extraction and parsing procedure. The malware is “notable for an unconventional approach to evading analysis and detection, namely obfuscation of the Android manifest,” Kaspersky researcher Dmitry…
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Sandboxes are synonymous with dynamic malware analysis. They help to execute malicious files in a safe virtual environment and observe their behavior. However, they also offer plenty of value in terms of static analysis. See these five scenarios where a sandbox can prove to be a useful tool in your investigations. Detecting Threats in PDFs…
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Super Low RPO with Continuous Data Protection: Dial Back to Just Seconds Before an Attack Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, can help you detect and recover from ransomware in near real-time. This solution leverages continuous data protection (CDP) to ensure all workloads have the lowest recovery point objective (RPO) possible. The most valuable thing…
Read MoreOther Attempts to Take Over Open Source Projects After the XZ Utils discovery, people have been examining other open-source projects. Surprising no one, the incident is not unique: The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails with similar messages, bearing different names and overlapping GitHub-associated emails. These emails implored OpenJS to…
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Incident response plan The healthcare industry has proven to be a high-value target for cybercriminals, with organizations in possession of sensitive data such as patients’ medical information, hospital bills, and other financial documents. Healthcare organizations must adopt a comprehensive incidence response plan to defend against growing ransomware threats, advised Azeem Aleem, MD of the UK…
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Apr 18, 2024NewsroomContainer Security / Cryptocurrency Threat actors are actively exploiting critical vulnerabilities in OpenMetadata to gain unauthorized access to Kubernetes workloads and leverage them for cryptocurrency mining activity. That’s according to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team, which said the flaws have been weaponized since the start of April 2024. OpenMetadata is an open-source platform…
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Cybersecurity is still a relatively new profession that has battled to be heard and respected, she says, driving some cyber pros to feel insecure and overcompensate with arrogant, “messiah complex” antics. She says security is often viewed within the business as “a tax”, which chips away at the morale of cyber teams and their leaders.…
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Apr 18, 2024NewsroomMalvertising / Endpoint Security A new Google malvertising campaign is leveraging a cluster of domains mimicking a legitimate IP scanner software to deliver a previously unknown backdoor dubbed MadMxShell. “The threat actor registered multiple look-alike domains using a typosquatting technique and leveraged Google Ads to push these domains to the top of search…
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