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June 15, 2023 At least half of dozen GitHub accounts from fake researchers associated with a fraudulent cybersecurity company have been observed pushing malicious repositories on the code hosting service. All seven repositories, which are still available as of writing, claim to be a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for purported zero-day flaws in Discord, Google Chrome, …

Fake Researcher Profiles Spread Malware through GitHub Repositories as PoC Exploits Read More »

May 19, 2023 Cybersecurity is constantly evolving, but complexity can give hostile actors an advantage. To stay ahead of current and future attacks, it’s essential to simplify and reframe your defenses. Zscaler Deception is a state-of-the-art next-generation deception technology seamlessly integrated with the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. It creates a hostile environment for attackers and …

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February 22, 2023 Popular cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase disclosed that it experienced a cybersecurity attack that targeted its employees. The company said its “cyber controls prevented the attacker from gaining direct system access and prevented any loss of funds or compromise of customer information.” The incident, which took place on February 5, 2023, resulted in the exposure …

Coinbase Employee Falls for SMS Scam in Cyber Attack, Limited Data Exposed Read More »

February 11, 2023 State-backed hackers from North Korea are conducting ransomware attacks against healthcare and critical infrastructure facilities to fund illicit activities, U.S. and South Korean cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned in a joint advisory. The attacks, which demand cryptocurrency ransoms in exchange for recovering access to encrypted files, are designed to support North Korea’s …

North Korean Hackers Targeting Healthcare with Ransomware to Fund its Operations Read More »

September 28, 2022 The infamous Lazarus Group has continued its pattern of leveraging unsolicited job opportunities to deploy malware targeting Apple’s macOS operating system. In the latest variant of the campaign observed by cybersecurity company SentinelOne last week, decoy documents advertising positions for the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange firm Crypto[.]com have been used to mount the …

North Korea’s Lazarus Hackers Targeting macOS Users Interested in Crypto Jobs Read More »

August 16, 2022 The SOVA Android banking trojan is continuing to be actively developed with upgraded capabilities to target no less than 200 mobile applications, including banking apps and crypto exchanges and wallets, up from 90 apps when it started out. That’s according to the latest findings from Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy, which found newer …

SOVA Android Banking Trojan Returns With New Capabilities and Targets Read More »

June 29, 2022 Entities located in Afghanistan, Malaysia, and Pakistan are in the crosshairs of an attack campaign that targets unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers as an initial access vector to deploy the ShadowPad malware. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which first detected the activity in mid-October 2021, attributed it to a previously unknown Chinese-speaking threat actor. Targets include …

APT Hackers Targeting Industrial Control Systems with ShadowPad Backdoor Read More »

May 31, 2022 Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new ransomware strain called GoodWill that compels victims into donating for social causes and provide financial assistance to people in need. “The ransomware group propagates very unusual demands in exchange for the decryption key,” researchers from CloudSEK said in a report published last week. “The Robin Hood-like group claims to be …

New ‘GoodWill’ Ransomware Forces Victims to Donate Money and Clothes to the Poor Read More »