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Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Ardent Health Services, headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., and operating in six different states, fell victim to a ransomware attack in late November that has taken its entire network offline. Some 30 hospitals have been affected by this ransomware attack. While the attack didn’t disrupt patient care in Ardent hospitals, those in need of emergency medical…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Financial disclosures filed over the past year show that Rackspace Technology has continued to rack up expenses and losses following last year’s December ransomware attack on one of its hosted Microsoft Exchange servers. So far, the incident costs have soared well into eight figures. Rackspace is a Texas-based, cloud computing services provider, largely for small…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

In a new twist on the cybercrime penchant for trojanizing things, a threat actor recently pounced upon a “hot” vulnerability disclosure to create a fake proof of concept (PoC) exploit that concealed the VenomRAT malware. According to research from Palo Alto Networks, the cyberattacker, who goes by “whalersplonk,” took advantage of a very real remote…

Mobile Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Dangerous spyware masquerading as a set of legitimate Telegram “mods” inside the official Google Play app store has been downloaded tens of thousands of times — and its existence poses serious ramifications for business users. Modified applications (“mods”) for the popular messaging client are a well-known part of the Telegram ecosystem. Mods are apps that…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Cargo containers filled with imports and exports from all over the world have been stuck at the Port of Nagoya following a ransomware attack on its networks early Tuesday morning. The port is the largest in Japan and the central shipping hub for international carmaker Toyota. According to its operator, Nagoya Harbor Transportation, it received…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Kaspersky researchers have provided further details on the CommonMagic campaign, which was first observed in March targeting companies in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict area. The new research reveals more sophisticated malicious activities from the same threat actor. The investigation identified that the newly-discovered framework has expanded its victimology to include organizations in Central and Western Ukraine….

News

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Iranian hackers are deploying an updated backdoor apparently targeting Israeli academic researchers with an interest in Iraq. Researchers at Check Point Security said a group they have dubbed “Educated Manticore” is sending the Iraq-themed bait in order to coax users into initiating a new and improved infection chain that ends with deployment of an implant…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

The Trigona ransomware threat actors are waging a campaign against Microsoft SQL database servers because many of them have external connections and weak passwords, leaving them open targets for brute force or dictionary attacks. These vulnerable MS-SQL servers were designated as “poorly managed” by AhnLab Security’s new alert about Trigona’s nefarious activities. “If a threat…