Cyber-security firm Cybereason’s ‘DeadRinger’ research has highlighted attack trends emanating from China that leverage third-party service providers to compromise multiple targets. Meanwhile in the UK, cyber-security managers admit to facing increased threats. Cybereason has revealed its discovery of several previously unidentified cyber-attack campaigns infiltrating major telecommunications providers across Southeast Asia. In the report, titled ‘DeadRinger:…
Zscaler has agreed to purchase startup Trustdome and its technology that’s used to get control over who and what has access to data, applications, and services in public cloud environments. The cloud security vendor said Ramat Gan, Israel-based Trustdome’s Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) platform will help businesses reduce their public cloud attack surface and…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Malware as-a-Service REvil, MountLocker and LockBit Operators Describe Strategies and Target Selection Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • March 22, 2021 Ransom note for a REvil – aka Sodinokibi – ransomware infection (Source: Cisco Talos) Ransomware-wielding attackers have been in the limelight lately – not just for…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management CISA Describes APT Group’s Methods Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 23, 2021 Secureworks says the Bronze Spiral APT group was involved in the attack described by CISA. An advanced persistent threat group gained long-term access to an unnamed entity’s network through its Ivanti…
A hacker who stole more than $600 million in one of the largest ever cryptocurrency heists has returned over half of what they took. Poly Network, a decentralised finance (DeFi) platform, said the hacker had sent back $256 million on Binance Smart Chain, $3.3 million in Ethereum and $1 million in Polygon as of 11th…
