By Waqas
The V3G4 malware was caught leveraging several vulnerabilities in IoT devices to spread its infection from July to December of 2022.
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By Habiba Rashid
Hackers are deploying the MortalKombat ransomware and Laplas Clipper malware in a financially motivated campaign against victims worldwide.
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The City of Oakland has declared a local state of emergency due to the effect of the ransomware attack that hit the city on February 8, 2023. The City of Oakland disclosed last week a ransomware attack, the security breach began on February 8, 2023. In an abundance of caution, the City of Oakland has […]
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Experts detected a new evasive malware dubbed Beep, it implements many anti-debugging and anti-sandbox techniques. Researchers from Minerva recently discovered a new evasive malware dubbed Beep, which implements many anti-debugging and anti-sandbox techniques. The name Beep comes from the use of techniques involved in delaying the execution through the use of the Beep API function. The experts […]
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By Joe Fay NHS still recovering from ransomware incidents. Network firm employee confesses to data extortion, as U.S. cyber ambassador admits their Twitter account was hacked as the President turns to industry leaders to advise him. NHS Still Reconnecting After 2022 Lockbit Attack on Supplier Just how disruptive ransomware can be was illustrated this past week, six months after an attack on UK health software supplier Advanced. The attack on Advanced first emerged in August 2022, causing disruption across a range of NHS services. Health and secondary care minister Will Quince said that while most affected NHS organizations were up…
The threat actors behind a massive AdSense fraud campaign infected 10,890 WordPress sites since September 2022. In November 2022, researchers from security firm Sucuri reported to have tracked a surge in WordPress malware redirecting website visitors to fake Q&A sites via ois[.]is. The experts were tracking the campaign since September 2022, the campaign’s end goal was black […]
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Virtual patching uses policies, rules and security tools to block access to a vulnerability until it can be patched. Zero-day threats and legacy systems are two ways that vulnerabilities can be created for which no patch may exist for some time, if ever. In those cases, security teams can block a potential attack path until […]
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Threat actors published more than 451 unique malware-laced Python packages on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) repository. Phylum researchers spotted more than 451 unique Python packages on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) repository in an attempt to deliver clipper malware on the developer systems. According to the experts, the activity is still ongoing […]
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By Waqas
All infected websites are using the WordPress CMS.
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“Swiss Army knife” malware – multi-purpose malware that can perform malicious actions across the cyber-kill chain and evade detection by security controls – is on the rise, according to the results of Picus Security’s analysis of over…