Google suspended popular budget e-commerce application Pinduoduo from the Play Store after detecting malware on versions of the Chinese app downloadable from other online stores. In a statement on Tuesday, Google said it took action to block the installation of Pinduoduo on Android devices and said it would scan smartphones for malicious versions through its…
Last year was another bonanza in zero-days for Chinese state hackers, say security researchers in a report predicting a permanent uptick in nation-state exploitation of yet-unpatched vulnerabilities. Data taken from original research by cybersecurity firm Mandiant and from open-source reporting suggests zero-day exploitation is generally trending upward despite fluctuation from year to year in the…
Russian-speaking ransomware gang BlackCat is leaking data stolen from a Pennsylvania-based healthcare group, including photos of breast cancer patients. On Saturday, the ransomware group posted on its dark leak site a message taunting Lehigh Valley Health Network. “We have been in your network a long time and have had time to study your business,” the…
Hackers earlier this month maliciously encrypted a system belonging to the U.S. Marshals Service, compromising and exfiltrating sensitive data law enforcement data. Department of Justice officials classify the attack as a “major incident,” said NBC, which broke news of the attack. Exposed data include returns from legal process, administrative information and personal identifiable information pertaining…
Threat visibility has always been an unruly challenge. Security teams find themselves inundated with alerts, many of which are false alarms. The irony is that, even as defenders can see more information about threats than ever before, attackers can slip right by because of all the noise. And the attackers know this, so they create…
A leader of an international crime network that attempted to launder more than $25 million in fraudulently obtained funds, including through business email compromise, received a sentence of more than a decade in prison. Valentine Iro, 34, pleaded guilty in October 2020 to one count of conspiracy to engage in money laundering. He was sentenced…
The Australian government says it will centralize its approach to securing federal agencies by appointing a coordinator to head the new National Office for Cyber Security within the Department of Home Affairs. The appointment comes after the country down under experienced back-to-back major data breaches. Medibank, Australia’s largest private health insurer, saw Russia-based ransomware hackers…
A Russian national accused by U.S. federal prosecutors of developing an application for decrypting login credentials pleaded not guilty during a first appearance in Tampa federal court. The man, Dariy Pankov – also known as “dpxaker” – faces seven criminal counts including conspiracy, access device fraud and computer fraud. On Wednesday in the courthouse for…
Ireland’s child and family agency, Tusla, says it is beginning a months-long process to notify 20,000 individuals that their personal information was exposed in the May 2021 ransomware attack against the Health Service Executive. The HSE is Ireland’s publicly funded national healthcare system and social services agency. It formerly provided IT services to Tusla. An…
Here’s how to doom a cybersecurity program: Think of cybersecurity as a war against an attacker that must be fought to the finish, invest in threat tracking technology for threats your organization has no capabilities to defend against, and let the sunk cost effect determine how you spend your security budget. In reality, cybersecurity is…
Google Suspends Chinese App Following Malware Discovery
