Intel Prioritizes Security in Latest vPro Chips
Intel is taking a new tack with the latest commercial PC chips announced last month: Instead of touting speed and performance, the company emphasized the chip’s security features. The chip giant has been working with security vendors in recent years to implement hardware-level protections on the chips to protect laptops from ransomware and malware attacks….
Protect Your Company: Ransomware Prevention Made Easy
Every year hundreds of millions of malware attacks occur worldwide, and every year businesses deal with the impact of viruses, worms, keyloggers, and ransomware. Malware is a pernicious threat and the biggest driver for businesses to look for cybersecurity solutions. Naturally, businesses want to find products that will stop malware in its tracks, and so…
Supply chain blunder puts 3CX telephone app users at risk
Internet telephony company 3CX is warning its customers of malware that was apparently weaseled into the company’s own 3CX Desktop App by cybercriminals who seem to have acquired access to one or more of 3CX’s source code repositories. As you can imagine, given that the company is scrambling not only to figure out what happened,…
Google Suspends Chinese App Following Malware Discovery
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…
Latest version of Xenomorph Android malware targets 400 banks
The author of the Xenomorph Android malware, the Hadoken Security Group, continues to improve their malicious code. In February 2022, researchers from ThreatFabric first spotted the Xenomorph malware, which was distributed via the official Google Play Store reaching over 50,000 installations. The banking Trojan was used to target 56 European banks and steal sensitive information…
China-linked Hackers Targeting Unpatched SonicWall SMA Devices with Malware
A suspecting China-linked hacking campaign has been observed targeting unpatched SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 appliances to drop malware and establish long-term persistence. “The malware has functionality to steal user credentials, provide shell access, and persist through firmware upgrades,” cybersecurity company Mandiant said in a technical report published this week. The Google-owned incident response…
40% of Global ICS Systems Attacked With Malware in 2022
More than 40% of the total number of global industrial control systems (ICS) computers saw some kind of malicious attack during the course of 2022. This volume of cyberattacks against industrial systems was led by growth in Russia, which, as a region, saw a full 9 percentage-point increase in malicious activity in 2022, according to…
AI-Powered ‘BlackMamba’ Keylogging Attack Evades Modern EDR Security
A proof-of-concept, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cyberattack that changes its code on the fly can slip past the latest automated security-detection technology, demonstrating the potential for creating undetectable malware. Researchers from HYAS Labs demonstrated the proof-of-concept attack, which they call BlackMamba, which exploits a large language model (LLM) — the technology on which ChatGPT is based…
NLBrute Malware Developer Pleads Not Guilty in US Court
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…
GoDaddy Says Recent Hack Part of Multi-Year Campaign
In a statement published last week on its website, the hosting giant said a small number of customers complained in early December 2022 about their websites being intermittently redirected. An analysis showed the redirects occurring on apparently random sites hosted on GoDaddy’s cPanel shared hosting services. The redirects were difficult to reproduce. Further analysis revealed…
