Varenyky, a new spambot for sextortion scam campaigns in France
ESET cyber security experts: The malware targets people when they are using sites related to sex, pornography, and known pornographic sites. It excludes not French and it’s evolving.
One of the worst enemies for Cybercrime are the automatic translators
Cyber security experts: to maximize the spread of phishing and malspam campaigns, messages are translated without checking in multiple languages. Victims have a weapon to detect fraud.
Commercial ships and maritime industry hit by waves of phishing cyber attacks
U.S. Cost Guard issues a Safety Alert with recommended cyber security best practices. It’s seem the ICT extension of the Iranian aggressive campaign in the Hormuz Strait.
Cybercrime spreads malware using less-known archive types as initial dropper
Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab cyber security experts: ISO images in particular are exploited. Analyzing a cyber attack against an Italian firm, it emerged the XpertRAT and a Delphi wrapper.
Iran hackers increase cyber attacks against US. Will a cyber war begin?
The cyber security experts: Targets are government and critical infrastructures, as oil and gas. But this happened before CYBERCOM strike. There are risks of back-and-forth cyber warfare.
Ukraine again under a cyber attack, probably by Gamaredon
Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB cyber security experts: The campaign shows the Matryoshka structure to chain SFX archives, typical of APT implant, and the use of a legit third party RAT as payload.
Cyber Security, GandCrab will be closed at the end of the month
Bleeping Computer: The ransomware authors, that hit also Italy, announced the end of the operations thanks to huge profits. The malware distribution will be stopped within 20 days.
Cybercrime uses an iframe-based phishing system to steal payment card data
Malwarebytes cyber security expert Jerome Segura: Magecart groups inject credit card stealer scripts within every page of the hacked websites and configured it to pop-up.
Cybercrime uses Microsoft Office 365 as a gateway to organizations
Barracuda Networks cyber security experts: In March 2019, 29% of businesses accounts were compromised. For ATOs are used brand impersonation, social engineering, and phishing.
Healthcare, Emotet is the prominent malware affecting the sector
Malwarebytes cyber security experts: Almost 80% of the cybercrime codes that attacks the sector are trojans. There are also different ones as fileless, ransomware and cryptominers.