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Did The MSM Join The Global Ransomware Business?

Did The MSM Join The Global Ransomware Business?

The Mauritius Socialist Movement, the party in power that was founded to prevent Mr Paul Berenger from assuming power in 1983, has officially entered the field of international espionage and may have joined the global billion-dollar ransomware business. The very first thing that we have to know is the origin

BlackCat Preys On Old Firewall/VPN In Devices

BlackCat Preys On Old Firewall/VPN In Devices

Andrew Brandt SophosLabs Principal Researcher, says a ransomware group attacking large organizations with malware called BlackCat has followed a consistent pattern over the past several months. The threat actors break into enterprise networks by exploiting vulnerabilities in unpatched or outdated firewall/VPN devices, then pivot to internal systems after establishing

Education Sector Suffers Highest Ransomware Attacks

Education Sector Suffers Highest Ransomware Attacks

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – July 13, 2022 – Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has published a new sectoral survey report, The State of Ransomware in Education 2022. The findings reveal that education institutions – both higher and lower education – are increasingly being hit with ransomware, with 60% suffering attacks in 2021

This is how attackers infiltrated a single server for months

This is how attackers infiltrated a single server for months

MALAYSIA, KUALA LUMPUR. – April 14, 2022 – The attackers also installed a cryptominer before exfiltrating data and deploying Lockbit ransomware. The findings are detailed in a new article, “Attackers Linger on Government Agency Computers Before Deploying Lockbit Ransomware,” and suggest that multiple attackers infiltrated the vulnerable server. The attack was contained

New findings show one hacking incident can cost enterprises $716K

New findings show one hacking incident can cost enterprises $716K

New findings from Kaspersky show that one hacking incident can cost enterprises an approximate amount of $716K in damages. Protecting corporate and personal data has become a necessity for modern businesses in Southeast Asia, especially for the past two years. Unfortunately, with new threats emerging during the pandemic and the

This is why hackers made banking and gaming their targets

This is why hackers made banking and gaming their targets

In 2021, Kaspersky saw a steady decline in attacks on mobile devices, while cybercriminals consolidated their efforts to focus on more dangerous (and profitable) threats instead. New mobile malware has become increasingly complex, featuring new ways to steal users’ banking and gaming credentials, as well as other strands of personal

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Millions of devices are at risk as a result of a new software vulnerability

A recently identified hole in a widely used piece of open-source software has prompted researchers and businesses to update their systems in order to prevent breaches and ransomware attacks. An incomplete patch for CVE-2021-44228 could be abused to “craft malicious input data using a JNDI Lookup pattern resulting in a

SophosLabs Discovers BazarBackdoor On Windows 10 App Installer

SophosLabs Discovers BazarBackdoor On Windows 10 App Installer

SophosLabs researchers have published a blogpost detailing a new attack operation by a malware family known as BazarBackdoor or BazarLoader that begins with a highly targeted malicious spam campaign. The campaign delivers malware through a novel mechanism: the abuse of the appxbundle format used by the Windows 10 App installer,

How to reduce the risk of supply chain attacks

How to reduce the risk of supply chain attacks

The announcement of a hack on IT monitoring company SolarWinds in December 2020 brought supply chain cybersecurity threats to the forefront, although they are not a new phenomenon. In fact, according to Sophos’ 2020 poll of 5,000 IT managers from 26 countries1, nearly one-tenth of ransomware victims (9%) said

North Korea aligned to actors in cryptocurrency vertical hack

Singapore – August 27, 2020: Yesterday, cyber security provider F-Secure published a report linking an attack against an organization working in the cryptocurrency vertical to Lazarus Group – a highly-skilled, financially-motivated threat actor whose interests reportedly align with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). By connecting evidence obtained from the

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In a survey of 5,000 IT Managers across 26 countries, 51% of respondents revealed that they were hit by ransomware in the last year. https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); In 73% of those incidents, attackers succeeded in encrypting data. Furthermore, the average

Modi's regime and Israeli spies hacked WhatsApp voice message function?

https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); In a move to show its integrity and to dispel potential backlash against the platform, WhatsApp us suing the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group. It is accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly