Evil Corp Impersonates PayloadBin Group to Avoid Federal Sanctions
The cybercriminals try to pin new ransomware on Babuk Locker in an effort to fly under the radar of an ongoing FBI investigation.
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Author: Elizabeth Montalbano
Supreme Court Limits Scope of Controversial Hacking Law
Judges rule that Georgia police officer did not violate CFAA when he accessed law-enforcement data in exchange for bribe money, a ruling that takes heat off ethical hackers.
Read MoreExchange Servers Targeted by ‘Epsilon Red’ Malware
REvil threat actors may be behind a set of PowerShell scripts developed for encryption and weaponized to exploit vulnerabilities in corporate networks, the ransom note suggests.
Read MoreDoJ Charges Rhode Island Woman in Phishing Scheme Against Politicians
Diana Lebeau allegedly tried to trick candidates for public office and related individuals into giving up account credentials by impersonating trusted associates and the Microsoft security team.
Read MoreCyberattack Forces Meat Producer to Shut Down Operations in U.S., Australia
Global food distributor JBS Foods suffered an unspecified incident over the weekend that disrupted several servers supporting IT systems and could affect the supply chain for some time.
Read MoreNobelium Phishing Campaign Poses as USAID
Microsoft uncovered the SolarWinds crooks using mass-mail service Constant Contact and posing as a U.S.-based development organization to deliver malicious URLs to more than 150 organizations.
Read MoreFujitsu SaaS Hack Sends Govt. of Japan Scrambling
Tech giant disables ProjectWEB cloud-based collaboration platform after threat actors gained access and nabbed files belonging to several state entities.
Read More‘Privateer’ Threat Actors Emerge from Cybercrime Swamp
‘Privateers’ aren’t necessarily state-sponsored, but they have some form of government protection while promoting their own financially-motivated criminal agenda, according to Cisco Talos.
Read MoreApple Patches Zero-Day Flaw in MacOS that Allows for Sneaky Screenshots
Security researchers at Jamf discovered the XCSSET malware exploiting the vulnerability, patched in Big Sur 11.4, to take photos of people’s computer screens without their knowing.
Read MoreEmail Campaign Spreads StrRAT Fake-Ransomware RAT
Microsoft Security discovered malicious PDFs that download Java-based StrRAT, which can steal credentials and change file names but doesn’t actually encrypt.
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