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A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution for carrying out thousands of ransomware attacks and extorting… Read More »Ukrainian REvil Hacker Sentenced to 13 Years and Ordered to Pay $16 Million
A never-before-seen botnet called Goldoon has been observed targeting D-Link routers with a nearly decade-old critical security flaw with the goal of using the compromised devices for further attacks. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2015-2051 (CVSS score: 9.8),… Read More »New “Goldoon” Botnet Targets D-Link Routers With Decade-Old Flaw
Cloud storage services provider Dropbox on Wednesday disclosed that Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign) was breached by unidentified threat actors, who accessed emails, usernames, and general account settings associated with all users of the… Read More »Dropbox Discloses Breach of Digital Signature Service Affecting All Users
Like antivirus software, vulnerability scans rely on a database of known weaknesses. That’s why websites like VirusTotal exist, to give cyber practitioners a chance to see whether a malware sample is… Read More »When is One Vulnerability Scanner Not Enough?
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical flaw impacting GitLab to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, owing to active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-7028 (CVSS score:… Read More »CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Severe GitLab Password Reset Vulnerability
A new malware called Cuttlefish is targeting small office and home office (SOHO) routers with the goal of stealthily monitoring all traffic through the devices and gather authentication data from HTTP GET and POST requests. “This… Read More »New Cuttlefish Malware Hijacks Router Connections, Sniffs for Cloud Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented malware targeting Android devices that uses compromised WordPress sites as relays for its actual command-and-control (C2) servers for detection evasion. The malware, codenamed Wpeeper,… Read More »Android Malware Wpeeper Uses Compromised WordPress Sites to Hide C2 Servers
A forensic analysis of a graph dataset containing transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain has revealed clusters associated with illicit activity and money laundering, including detecting criminal proceeds sent to a crypto… Read More »Bitcoin Forensic Analysis Uncovers Money Laundering Clusters and Criminal Proceeds
The authors behind the resurfaced ZLoader malware have added a feature that was originally present in the Zeus banking trojan that it’s based on, indicating that it’s being actively developed. “The latest version, 2.4.1.0, introduces a feature to… Read More »ZLoader Malware Evolves with Anti-Analysis Trick from Zeus Banking Trojan
There’s a natural human desire to avoid threatening scenarios. The irony, of course, is if you hope to attain any semblance of security, you’ve got to remain prepared to confront those very same threats. As… Read More »Everyone’s an Expert: How to Empower Your Employees for Cybersecurity Success