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Multi-Gov Task Force Plans to Take Down the Ransomware Economy

A coalition of 60 global entities (including the DoJ) has proposed a sweeping plan to hunt down and disrupt ransomware gangs by going after their financial operations.
Threatpost 30 Apr 2021 695 Views

A New PHP Composer Bug Could Enable Widespread Supply-Chain Attacks

The maintainers of Composer, a package manager for PHP, have shipped an update to address a critical vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary commands and "backdoor every PHP package," resulting in a supply-chain attack. Tracked as CVE-2021...
The Hacker News 29 Apr 2021 19235 Views

Microsoft Office SharePoint Targeted With High-Risk Phish, Ransomware Attacks

SharePoint servers are being picked at with high-risk, legitimate-looking, branded phish messages and preyed on by a ransomware gang using an old bug.
Threatpost 29 Apr 2021 769 Views

Cybercriminals Widely Abusing Excel 4.0 Macro to Distribute Malware

Threat actors are increasingly adopting Excel 4. documents as an initial stage vector to distribute malware such as ZLoader and Quakbot, according to new research. The findings come from an analysis of 160,000 Excel 4. documents between November 2020 and...
The Hacker News 28 Apr 2021 19276 Views

Emotet botnet harvested 4.3 million email addresses. Now the FBI is using Have I Been Pwned to alert the victims

The law enforcement agency is working with the data breach service to alert people that their information may have been harvested by the botnet.
ZDnet 28 Apr 2021 794 Views

Emotet Malware Destroys Itself From All Infected Computers

Emotet, the notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, was automatically wiped from infected computers en masse following a European law enforcement operation. The development comes three months after a coordinated disruption of Emotet as part of "...
The Hacker News 27 Apr 2021 16375 Views

5 Fundamental But Effective IoT Device Security Controls

Matt Dunn, the associate managing director for cyber-risk at Kroll, discusses how to keep networks safe from insecure IoT devices.
Threatpost 24 Apr 2021 718 Views

If you have a QNAP NAS, stop what you're doing right now and install latest updates. Do it before Qlocker gets you

Storage box maker puts customers on red alert after outbreak in ransomware infections QNAP has urged its customers to install and run its latest firmware and malware removal tools on their NAS boxes amid a surge in ransomware infections.…
The Register 23 Apr 2021 19151 Views

Signal CEO Hacks Cellebrite iPhone Hacking Device Used By Cops

Packet Storm 22 Apr 2021 26984 Views

Telegram Platform Abused In ToxicEye Malware Campaigns

Packet Storm 22 Apr 2021 23099 Views