Ferrari Discloses Ransomware Attack; Refuses to Pay Ransom

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Ferrari, the renowned Italian luxury car manufacturer, suffered a cyber incident that compromised the company’s client data. According…
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Cybersecurity Industry News Review – March 21, 2023

KillNet is bad for your health, TikTok facing further bans, ransomware impacts cancer test results, Russia allegedly increasing its cyberwarfare efforts. By Joe Fay Microsoft Demonstrates How KillNet Is Bad for Our Healthcare Sector Microsoft has highlighted a rise in DDoS attacks on healthcare organizations, mapping a three-fold increase in attacks over three months. It said it tracked 10 to 20 attacks per day on healthcare organizations on Azure in November but was seeing 40 to 60 per day in February. The attack mix changed over this time, it added, with over half of attacks now being UDP floods, with…

US Citizen Hacked by Spyware

The New York Times is reporting that a US citizen’s phone was hacked by the Predator spyware.

A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta’s security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by the Greek national intelligence service and hacked with a powerful cyberespionage tool, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and officials with knowledge of the case.

The disclosure is the first known case of an American citizen being targeted in a European Union country by the advanced snooping technology, the use of which has been the subject of a widening scandal in Greece. It demonstrates that the illicit use of spyware is spreading beyond use by authoritarian governments against opposition figures and journalists, and has begun to creep into European democracies, even ensnaring a foreign national working for a major global corporation…

Threat actors are experimenting with QR codes

Hackers are diversifying attack methods, including a surge in QR code phishing campaigns, according to HP. From February 2022, Microsoft began blocking macros in Office files by default, making it harder for attackers to run malicious code. Data collec…

DotRunpeX: The Malware That Infects Systems with Multiple Families

By Deeba Ahmed
Researchers suspect that the malware may be operated by Russian-speaking groups, given the references to the language in its code.
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Threat Actors Using Go-based HinataBot to launch DDoS Attacks

By Deeba Ahmed
HinataBot can launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks reaching 3.3 TBPS.
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Threat actors abuse Adobe Acrobat Sign to distribute RedLine info-stealer

Threat actors are abusing the legitimate Adobe Acrobat Sign service to distribute the RedLine information stealer. Avast researchers reported that threat actors are abusing the legitimate Adobe Acrobat Sign service to distribute the RedLine information stealer. Adobe Acrobat Sign allows registered users to sign documents online and send a document signature request to anyone. This […]

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Emotet is back after a three-month hiatus

The infamous Emotet malware is back after a short hiatus, threat actors are spreading it via Microsoft OneNote email attachments. The Emotet malware returns after a three-month hiatus and threat actors are distributing it via Microsoft OneNote email attachments to avoid detection. The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is operated by a threat actor tracked […]

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Adobe Acrobat Sign Abused to Distribute Malware

Cybercriminals are abusing the Adobe Acrobat Sign service in a campaign distributing the RedLine information stealer malware.
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