Malware & Threats

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….

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Blackbaud, a South Carolina-based software company, has been ordered by the California Attorney General’s Office to pay $6.75 million to settle a ransomware attack that took place in May 2020. The attack occurred due to poor security practices, the AG’s office said. After Blackbaud revealed that the threat actors compromised unencrypted Social Security numbers, bank…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: DataBreach Today

The ransomware attack on a key U.K. National Health Service IT vendor has forced two London hospitals to reschedule around 1,500 medical appointments including critical cancer treatments and organ transplant surgeries. The June 3 attack is disrupting operations at NHS King’s College and Guy’s and St. Thomas’ in London. Attackers compromised servers of Synovia, the…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Cybersecurity researchers said an experiment in developing a fake, malicious extension for the world’s most popular integrated development environment succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. Researchers Amit Assaraf, Itay Kruk, and Idan Dardikman uploaded an extension to Microsoft source code editing platform Visual Studio Code masquerading as “Dracula Official,” a color theme that records nearly 7.2…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: CSO Online

Cyber criminals are beginning to use artificial intelligence to make their operations more effective — and their use goes way beyond creating better bait for phishing. Just as in legitimate business, discussions about AI among criminals have accelerated this year compared to 2023, researchers from cybersecurity group Intel 471 reported in a new study published…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Researchers have linked a previously unknown advanced persistent threat actor to data exfiltration attacks spanning various sectors in the United States, Europe. Some tactics associated with LilacSquid overlap with those used by Andariel, a North Korean threat actor that acts as a sub-cluster within the Lazarus Group. According to Cisco Talos, the group’s methods for…