Louisiana works to recover from Monday’s ransomware attack. Gekko Group sustains a massive data exposure. US student charged with coding for ISIS.
Louisiana works to recover from Monday’s ransomware attack. The HydSeven criminal group is delivering Trojans via spearphishing. A hotel reservation company sustained a massive data exposure. India’s ...
20 Nov 201920min
Ransomware recovery in Louisiana. DPRK phishing for aerospace jobseekers? Cybercrime campaigns. Notes on current legal matters.
Louisiana recovers from a ransomware attack against state servers. North Korea appears to still be interested in Indian industry--this time it’s people looking for jobs at Hindustan Aeronautics. Compr...
19 Nov 201922min
Disney+ credentials hacked. Kudankulam reassurance. Chinese, Iranian documents leak. Iran and Venezuela restrict Internet access. Russia proposes Internet control treaty. Hacktivist notes.
Disney+ credentials already on sale in the black market souks. India reassures nuclear power partners that the Kudankulam incident didn’t compromise safety. Documents pertaining to Chinese and Iranian...
18 Nov 201916min
Sodinokibi aka REvil connections to GandCrab. [Research Saturday]
Researchers at McAfee's Advanced Threat Research Team have been analyzing Sodinokibi ransomware as a service, also known as REvil. John Fokker is head of cyber investigations for McAfee Advanced Threa...
16 Nov 201919min
Pemex ransomware update. Spearphishing with spoofed government phishbait. Trojan two-fer. AntiFrigus ransomware avoids C-drive files. BLE bug. DataTribe’s annual Challenge.
Pemex has recovered from the ransomware attack it sustained...or has it? TA2101 is spoofing German, Italian, and US government agencies in its phishing emails. A dropper in the wild is delivering a Tr...
15 Nov 201928min
PureLocker ransomware. APT33 update. Hong Kong and information war, in the courts and on PornHub. Facebook content takedowns. Alleged criminals prepare to face the court.
PureLocker is a new ransomware strain available in the black market. APT33 is showing a surge of activity. Lawfare and information operations in and around Hong Kong. Facebook takes down content for v...
14 Nov 201921min
NAM hacked during US-China trade tensions. DDoS against British political parties. Pemex recovers from ransomware. Project Nightingale gets US Federal scrutiny. Patch notes.
National Association of Manufacturers hacked during Sino-American trade negotiations (and tensions). Ineffectual DDoS attacks hit both of the UK’s largest political parties. Pemex says it’s completed ...
13 Nov 201921min
Labour Party reports a cyberattack. What the Lazarus Group is up to. Platinum adds a quiet backdoor. Buran competes on price. PCI DSS compliance falling. Ahoy, Yantar.
The UK’s Labour Party says it was hacked, but unsuccessfully. The Lazarus Group seems to be back out and about, and apparently interested in India. The Platinum threat actor continues to prospect Sout...
12 Nov 201916min
