Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
22 June 2023
Researchers took the wraps off of a year-long cyberattack campaign deploying a custom Golang malware called RDStealer. The malware strain focuses on stealing credentials and extracting data from compromised hosts. Not a coincidence but all the compromised machines were Dell-manufactured devices.
21 June 2023
Updated report from the NCSC highlights the key threats that the UK legal sector face and how to improve their cyber security.
21 June 2023
A recent survey looks at the biggest challenges facing IT leaders of large organizations and their approach to modernizing their IT department.
21 June 2023
If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or "crypt" your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. In fact, the process of "crypting" malware is sufficiently complex and time-consuming that most serious cybercrooks will outsource this critical function to a handful of trusted third parties. This story explores the history and identity behind Cryptor[.]biz, a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.
21 June 2023
IT and cybersecurity professionals were surveyed on passwordless authentication and how it would impact their organizations' credential security.
21 June 2023
The first security defect, tracked as CVE-2023-2986 (CVSS score 9.8/10), impacts the Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce, a plugin that notifies customers who did not complete the purchase process, and which has more than 30,000 active installations.
21 June 2023
The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft has been observed using an information-stealing malware with previous undocumented wiretapping features as well as a backdoor developed using Golang that exploits the Ably real-time messaging service.
"The threat actor sent their commands through the Golang backdoor that is using the Ably service," the AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (
21 June 2023
LockBit was the most active group last month, but NCC Group researchers were surprised by 8base, which started listing victims from attacks that occurred beginning in April 2022.
21 June 2023
The growing adoption of cloud has elevated cloud security fear for IT teams, as they grapple with the challenges and concerns arising from the widespread use of complex cloud environments while diligently addressing them, according to SUSE.
21 June 2023
The decision to put cyber on equal footing with the division’s three existing sections comes as the DOJ has ramped up its own efforts to defeat botnets, contain or eliminate malware outbreaks and pursue digital criminals around the globe.
21 June 2023
The study by KnowBe4, which analyzed a dataset of over 12.5 million users across 35,681 organizations, revealed that 35.2% of users who had received no security training were prone to clicking on suspicious links or engaging in fraudulent actions.
21 June 2023
The experience and habits of IT departments when it comes to ransomware and data recovery were analyzed in a recent report by Arcserve.
21 June 2023
Graphican is notable for using Microsoft Graph API and OneDrive to stealthily obtain its C2 infrastructure addresses in encrypted form, giving it versatility and resistance against take-downs.
21 June 2023
IT teams have made security efforts and progress in zero-trust implementation strategies to establish a new sense of normalcy following the network upheaval caused by the start of the global pandemic.
21 June 2023
More details have emerged about the spyware implant that's delivered to iOS devices as part of a campaign called Operation Triangulation.
Kaspersky, which discovered the operation after becoming one of the targets at the start of the year, said the malware has a lifespan of 30 days, after which it gets automatically uninstalled unless the time period is extended by the attackers.
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21 June 2023
A new survey shows CISOs struggle to cost justify security investments despite known security gaps, face increasing personal risks, and worry about the rapid adoption of AI.
21 June 2023
A new report shows that 75% of people globally don’t adhere to widely-accepted password best practices with 64% either using weak passwords or repeat variations of passwords to protect their online accounts.
21 June 2023
A threat group tracked as APT28 and linked to Russia's General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) has breached Roundcube email servers belonging to multiple Ukrainian organizations, including government entities.
21 June 2023
An unidentified cybercrime group was observed brute-forcing vulnerable Linux SSH servers to drop various malware strains, including the Tsunami DDoS bot. Tsunami, also known as Kaiten, is used by a multitude of threat actors as the source code of the botnet is publicly available. administrators are recommended to use passwords that are difficult to guess and change them periodically to prevent falling victim.
21 June 2023
Condi, unlike some botnets which propagate by means of brute-force attacks, leverages a scanner module that checks for vulnerable TP-Link Archer AX21 devices and, if so, executes a shell script retrieved from a remote server to deposit the malware.