The last time we wrote about the Necurs botnet was in January, when it was used in Locky ransomware distribution operations. Necurs has been primarily used to spread spam emails in order to infect user systems. The botnet usually infected…
F-Secure, the Finnish web security company, recently released a 34-page transcript from a group chat that belonged to the creators of Spora ransomware family. Spora is a ransomware virus, primarily targeting Russian speakers as evident by its payment page and…
Data breaches that affect the healthcare sector are a huge privacy and security disaster. As Dr. Mansur Hasib told us in an interview, the worst breach in healthcare so far was at Anthem (the Anthem medical data breach that took…
Do you use Chrome? Be alert as a new scam has been reported to target users. The scam has been dubbed “font wasn’t found” and was discovered by Mahmoud Al-Qudsi from NeoSmart Technologies. It has most likely originated from WordPress…
2016 has seen several powerful financial cybercriminal groups specifically targeting large and financially sound organizations. Multiple banks, payment processing systems, hotels, retailers and plenty of other businesses relying on PoS payments were brutally targeted. Details about such attacks were just…
It may come to no one’s surprise that the current ransomware ecosystem is being created and maintained mainly by Russian-speaking cyber criminals. Kaspersky’s research showed that 80% of all crypto-ransomware families originated from Russian underground forums and other similar sources…
The FBI is currently seeking 123 alleged cybercriminals globally, as reported by ITNews. The criminals should face charges before the US court. During the RSA Conference, Steven Kelly, international cybercrime coordination cell (IC4) unit chief, said that the number of…
It’s been a while since we last wrote about RAT-related attacks. However, this is about to change as а new RAT, Remcos, has been detected being sold on underground forums. First noticed in the second half of 2016, the malicious…
The Yahoo saga continues, as the company has again started notifying users of more malicious activities involving more user accounts. Apparently, attackers may have accessed user accounts via fake cookies instead of passwords. Unfortunately, the number of accounts accessed this…
Magento has been targeted once again by new malware that is capable of self-healing. This process is possible thanks to hidden code in the targeted website’s database. The researcher who came across the new malware pattern is Jeroen Boersma. However,…
The human operating system continues to be the key role in cybersecurity incidents and data breaches, as revealed by Data Breach Digest by Verizon: Data breaches are complex affairs often involving some combination of human factors, hardware devices, exploited configurations…
Dr. Mansur Hasib has been helping executives transform their organizations through digital leadership and cybersecurity strategy in healthcare, biotechnology, education, and energy. Dr. Hasib is a Doctor of Science in Cybersecurity (IA), and holds the prestigious CISSP, PMP, and CPHIMS…
Quite a few banks have been targeted in the so-called watering hole attacks. The attacks from January against Polish institutions where a booby-trapped site of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority was used were just the beginning of a series of…
Have you heard of RansomFree? It is a free anti-ransomware protection program developed by Cybereason that runs on Windows 7, 8, and 10, Windows 2010 R2, Windows 2008 R2, and is suitable for both business and home users. During the…
ZDNet has come across a malicious ad that looked like an Amazon one. More particularly, the ad was spoofed to imitate a legit Amazon ad. Fortunately, it didn’t serve malware upon clicking but redirected users to a Windows tech support…
According to Moscow-based forensics company Elcomsoft, Apple’s iCloud has been keeping users’ deleted internet browsing histories, records older than a year included. The company came to this conclusion after it deleted Safari browser histories from iCloud accounts and was able…
Mirai botnet has now been equipped with a Windows variant, Trojan.Mirai.1, as revealed by security researchers at Dr. Web. The new variant targets Windows and can compromise more ports than its Linux counterpart. Trojan.Mirai.1 is also infecting IoT devices and…
At the end of January, 2017, Troy Hunt said that “HTTPS adoption has now reached the moment of critical mass where it’s gathering enough momentum that it will very shortly become “the norm” rather than the exception it so frequently…
Google is about to limit the visibility or completely remove apps from Google Play Store that violate their User Data policy. The Next Web has reported that Google has been sending noticed to developers across the world stating the company’s…
Tech support scams, especially those over the phone, have tricked too many users into giving away personal and payment information, among other negative outcomes. Windows Support tech support scams appear to be the most popular ones. Plenty of Windows users…
