Pipeline Update: Biden Executive Order, DarkSide Detailed and Gas Bags
FBI/CISA warn about the RaaS network behind the Colonial hack, Colonial restarts operations, and researchers details groups that rent the ransomware.
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Malware
TeaBot Trojan Targets Banks via Hijacked Android Handsets
Malware first observed in Italy can steal victims’ credentials and SMS messages as well as livestream device screens on demand.
Read MoreFake Chrome App Anchors Rapidly Worming ‘Smish’ Cyberattack
An ingenious attack on Android devices self-propagates, with the potential for a range of damage.
Read MoreShifting Threats in a Changed World: Edge, IoT and Vaccine Fraud
Aamir Lakhani, researcher at FortiGuard Labs, discusses leading-edge threats related to edge access/browsers/IoT, and the COVID-19 vaccine, as a way of getting into larger organizations.
Read More200K Veterans’ Medical Records Likely Stolen by Ransomware Gang
Analyst finds ransomware evidence, despite a contractor’s denial of compromise.
Read MoreDarkSide Wanted Money, Not Disruption from Colonial Pipeline Attack
Statement by the ransomware gang suggests that the incident that crippled a major U.S. oil pipeline may not have exactly gone to plan for overseas threat actors.
Read MoreColonial Pipeline’s Ransomware Attack Sparks Emergency Declaration
Security researchers mull possible perpetrators of the attack, and warned that the incident could be a harbinger of things to come.
Read MoreLemon Duck Cryptojacking Botnet Changes Up Tactics
The sophisticated threat is targeting Microsoft Exchange servers via ProxyLogon in a wave of fresh attacks against North American targets.
Read MoreMajor U.S. Pipeline Crippled in Ransomware Attack
Colonial Pipeline Company says it is the victim of a cyberattack that forced the major provider of liquid fuels to the East Coast to temporarily halted all pipeline operations.
Read MoreiPhone Hack Allegedly Used to Spy on China’s Uyghurs
U.S. intelligence said that the Chaos iPhone remote takeover exploit was used against the minority ethnic group before Apple could patch the problem.
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