Malware & Threats

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Last week, a group of hackers targeted Radioactive Waste Management (RWM), a UK government-owned company behind the country’s multibllion-dollar Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) nuclear waste-storage project, using social engineering and LinkedIn. RWM merged last year with two other companies to create Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), which also administers the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria,…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: SecurityWeek

Active since early 2023, the malware initially targeted mobile banking applications in Australia and Poland, but has since expanded its reach to the UK and Italy. When initially uncovered, ThreatFabric explains, Chameleon used multiple loggers, had limited malicious functionality, and contained various unused commands, suggesting that it was still under development. Employing a proxy feature…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: DataBreach Today

The BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service operation’s putative “unseizing” of its leak site from the FBI is a stunt made possible by way the dark web handles address resolution, security researchers said Monday. The stunt was a “tactical error” that could alienate affiliates. U.S. authorities as part of an international law enforcement operation announced Monday morning that they…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Affairs

Dubai Taxi Company, a subsidiary of Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority, leaked a trove of sensitive information from the DTC app, the Cybernews research team has found. Over 197K app users and nearly 23K drivers were exposed. DTC claims that it controls 44% of the Dubai market share by the size of its taxi fleet,…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Affairs

The North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus is behind a new hacking campaign that exploits Log4j vulnerabilities to deploy previously undocumented remote access trojans (RATs). Cisco Talos researchers tracked the campaign as Operation Blacksmith, the nation-state actors are employing at least three new DLang-based malware families. Two of these malware strains are remote access trojans (RATs),…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Affairs

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is warning customers it has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive personal and financial data. “Due to an attack on the systems, unauthorized persons gained access to personal data. Affected customers have now been informed. Toyota Kreditbank’s systems have been gradually restarted since December 1st.” reads a statement published by…