As the COVID-19 outbreak has intensified, so too has cybercrime, including ransomware, Interpol, the international crime-fighting agency, warns. Despite some gangs claiming to no longer be targeting healthcare organizations, experts have seen "no abatement, empathy or free decryptor" from any of them.
Hackers are targeting Chinese government agencies and their employees by taking advantage of zero-day vulnerabilities in VPN servers to plant backdoors and other malware, researchers at the Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 report.
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With the U.S. and other nations adopting economic stimulus packages as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, fraudsters are now using the promise of government checks as phishing lures to spread banking Trojans, according to a pair of new security research reports.
NTT's Global Threat Intelligence Center has released their latest report for March 2020.
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The latest on web attacks;
The threat assessment for the 2020 Olympics;
Phishing and malware attacks centered around the coronavirus.
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The FBI warns that the notorious FIN7 cybercrime gang has a new trick up its sleeve: Mailing victims a $50 gift card portrayed as good for redeeming items listed on an accompanying USB storage device, which in reality downloads Griffon backdoor software to give attackers remote access.
The IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2020 highlights high-profile security events of 2019 and forecasts trends that will occur in 2020.
The report is comprised of insights and observations from data analyzed via hundreds of millions of protected endpoints and servers across over 100 countries.
The report...
A newly discovered advanced persistent threat group is targeting industrial firms in the Middle East with a new type of backdoor Trojan, according to the security firm Kaspersky.
More bad ransomware news: Following in the footsteps of Maze, now even more cybercrime gangs are threatening to not only crypto-lock systems but also leak stolen data. Such moves come following a banner year for ransomware operators, who are continuing to bring more advanced tactics to bear.
Security researchers are tracking a variant of the prolific Mirai botnet called Mukashi, that's taking advantage of vulnerabilities in network-area storage devices made by Zyxel and giving its operators the ability to launch DDoS attacks. Zyxel has issued a patch for the vulnerability.
Disinformation campaigns with ties to Russia are continuing in an attempt to impede other governments' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, complicating public health efforts to combat the disease, European officials warn.
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Growing data sources and intel feeds are making it more challenging for security teams to find the signal in a very noisy landscape, says Neustar's Brian McCann.
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