FBI Operation Remotely Removes Web Shells From Exchange Servers

The Belgian interior ministry has found itself the target of “sophisticated” cyber espionage, a spokesman told RTBF public television on Tuesday.  The Federal Public Service Interior’s communications director, Olivier Maerens, insisted, however, that the ministry’s servers were well protected and that the hackers had not succeeded in getting hold of the most sensitive data.  Federal…

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) have issued an alert about an ongoing Avaddon ransomware campaign that is affecting organizations across a wide range of industries in the United States and across the world.  Avaddon ransomware associates are attempting to breach the networks of manufacturing, healthcare, and…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has disclosed details of a new advanced persistent threat (APT) that’s leveraging the Supernova backdoor to compromise SolarWinds Orion installations after gaining access to the network through a connection to a Pulse Secure VPN device. “The threat actor connected to the entity’s network via a Pulse Secure…

  A new cyber campaign has come to known as a phishing attack. Outlook Web Access and Office 365 services users are being targeted. The campaign collected the credentials of thousands of customers relying on trusted domains such as SendGrid.  The campaign named “Compact”, the Cyber actors behind these phishing attacks have been operating this…

By Raphael Satter and Joseph Menn WASHINGTON: Top executives at Texas-based software company SolarWinds Corp, Microsoft Corp and cybersecurity firms FireEye Inc and CrowdStrike Holdings Inc defended their conduct in breaches blamed on Russian hackers and sought to shift responsibility elsewhere in testimony to a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday. One of the worst hacks…

Cybercrime , DDoS Protection , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Proofpoint Reports Group Rebrands as Fancy Lazarus, Lowers Ransom Amount Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 11, 2021     Traditional ransomware attacks may have taken over the news cycle, but Proofpoint researchers say the malicious actors who presents themselves as the North Korean-backed Lazarus advanced persistent…