Cybercrime increase targeting Kenya, especially on mobile
The Communications Authority (CA): Explosion of malware and DDoS attacks, and online abuse. Targetsare end-users who have limited cyber security skills.
Emotet is evolving: New C2 Communication and Infection Chain
Cofense cyber security experts: The malware is trying to evade detection and uses JavaScript files as droppers instead of macro-packed Office documents.
New Mirai variant targets different enterprise embedded devices
Palo Alto cyber security experts: The malware in particular hit Wireless Presentation & Display Systems. Cybercrime IoT/Linux botnets continue to expand their attack surface.
Torrent’ users cyber security is at high risk, regardless the seeder
Yoroi-Cybaze conducted a study, downloading files of 3 categories: most of them contain malware. In January there was a double cyber attack with Vidar and GandCrab.
GoBrut is the new “creature” of the malware written in Go language
Yoroi-Cybaze cyber security experts: The core of the bot is the brute-force module. It has 23 functionalities to target a range of technologies, WordPress and Joomla included.
Cybercrime launched a mass credential harvesting process, leveraging an IoT botnet
Also Italy is affected. MalwareMustDie cyber security experts: bad actors steal info from weak sites, then target finance payment portals and online banking sites.