Belarus, political tensions boost waves of cyber attacks
Atlas VPN cyber security experts: The country in the last 31 days suffered 2.1 million aggressions. Part are for cyber espionage purpose, other for cybercrime.
Cybercrime, new Thanos ransomware version targets Middle East-North Africa
Palo Alto Networks cyber security experts: The malware was configured to overwrite the master boot record (MBR), and contains network-spreading functionality.
Cybercrime, Evilnum is spreading a new RAT: PyVil
Cybereason cyber security experts: The malware, written in Python, has different functionalities. The chain of infection and the infrastructure are also changed.
Cybercrime, “message quarantine” lure to steal employee credentials
Cofense cyber security experts: A mail alerts the victim on three messages at risk and asks to click a link. This leads to a real company’s page with a fake login panel.
Cyber Security, Microsoft Defender now can download malware
Mohammad Askar: A recent update includes a new - DownloadFile command-line argument. Bleeping Computer: It allows local users to use MpCmdRun.exe to download files from a remote location.
Cyber Espionage, Chinese APT TA413 spreads a new RAT: Sepulcher
Proofpoint cyber security experts: The malware has been distributed in 2 different campaigns Covid-19 themed. One targeted many organisations in EU. The other, against Tibetan dissidents.
Cybercrime, a DLL fixer spread Cyrat ransomware
The cyber security expert Karsten Hahn: The malware, compiled with Python 3.7, target Windows users. It exploits Fernet to encrypt files and the ransom stock photo is on the wallpaper.
Cyber Espionage, Charming Kitten hackers renewed their TTPs
Clearsky cyber security experts: The Iranian APT started impersonating “Deutsche Welle” and the “Jewish Journal” using emails alongside WhatsApp messages and LinkedIn profiles.
Cybercrime, new campaign to distribute Lemon Duck with COVID-19 bait
Sophos cyber security experts: The malware, a cryptominer, infects the victim and tries to spread. For the attack it uses the EternalBlue exploit and an implementation of Mimikatz.
Cybercrime, North Korea is targeting banks in over 30 countries
US cyber security experts: BeagleBoyz gang is targeting organizations with Op. “FASTCash 2.0”, in an ongoing cyber-enabled bank robbery scheme, attempting to steal $2 Billions.