Malware & Threats

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Once again, cyberattackers are targeting JavaScript developers — this time in a “complex and persistent supply chain attack” that’s distributing Trojanized packages for the popular JavaScript library jQuery across GitHub, Node Package Manager (npm), and jsDelivr repositories. Each package contains a copy of jQuery with one small difference: the end function, a part of the…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Affairs

Researchers at the QiAnXin XLab team uncovered a new Golang-based botnet called Zergeca that can carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. On May, 2024, the researchers detected a suspicious ELF file at /usr/bin/geomi that was uploaded from Russia to VirusTotal. The file was packed with a modified UPX and had a unique magic number, 0x30219101,…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: CSO Online

Infinidat, a leading provider of enterprise storage solutions, has introduced a new automated cyber resiliency and recovery solution that will revolutionize how enterprises can minimize the impact of ransomware and malware attacks. Infinidat’s InfiniSafe® Automated Cyber Protection (ACP) is a first-of-its-kind cybersecurity integration solution that is designed to reduce the threat window of cyberattacks, such…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Optiv, the cyber advisory and solutions leader, has published its 2024 Threat and Risk Management Report, which examines how organizations’ cybersecurity investments and governance priorities are keeping up with the evolving threat landscape. Based on an independent Ponemon Institute survey, the report reveals a 59% increase in cyber budgets year-over-year. Additionally, 63% of organizations with…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

A cybercrime group is demanding $8 million after compromising Indonesia’s national data center — an amount the government is refusing to pay. More than 200 government agencies have been disrupted by the cyberattack since June 20, according to Samuel Abrijani Pangerapan, director general of informatics applications with the Communications and Informatics Ministry. He told the…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: DataBreach Today

The European Union sanctioned four Russian domestic intelligence agency hackers including two military officers who participated in what researchers have described as “hack and leak” operations against Western governments. The two officers are part of a Federal Security Service hacking group known as Callisto Group and Coldriver and formerly tracked by Microsoft as Seaborgium. The…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

A widespread campaign aimed at stealing cryptocurrency is spreading a wave of infostealers through fake virtual meeting software for both macOS and Windows platforms, particularly targeting the former with the dangerous Atomic stealer. Discovered by Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, the campaign attributed to a threat actor dubbed “Markopolo” is responsible for an elaborate Web and…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Popular artificial intelligence chatbots are rife with Russian disinformation, warns NewsGuard, the rating system for news and information websites. Researchers at NewsGuard entered prompts into 10 chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, Elon Musk’s Grok and Mistral and found that about one-third of the responses contained disinformation culled from a network of fake local news sites and…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: CSO Online

The controversial spyware Pegasus and its operator, the Israeli NSO Group, is once again in the news. Last week, in documents filed in a judgment between NSO and WhatsApp, they admitted that any of their clients can target anyone with their spyware, including government or military officials because their jobs are inherently legitimate intelligence targets….