The month of May was quite dramatic from the ransomware attacks perspective. The big picture view of the ransomware attacks are below (grouped by industries and number of victims): The intent of bringing these insights is to understand better and identify any patterns. We are not interested in highlighting any particular breach. Some of the …
The recent attack on Colonial Pipeline has raised the eyebrows of many US policymakers and has put a lot of focus on the DarkSide ransomware threat group. The Biden-Harrris Administration in the US has launched iniaitives to address the Colinial pipeline incident.. The ransomware group has published multiple advertisements in the past to hire hackers, …
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Two Android spyware strains named Hornbill and SunBird were recently discovered with possible connections to the advanced persistent threat (APT) group called Confucius. The group first appeared in 2013 as a hacking group, primarily pursuing Pakistani and other South Asian targets. Confucius has created mainly Windows malware in the past. However, after the spying app ChatSpy came …
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Cyble’s research team has found an uptick in phishing campaigns targeting multiple organizations, including financial institutes, by abusing the ngrok platform, a secure and introspectable tunnel to the localhost.