Over the past two weeks, we saw New PurpleFox botnet variant uses WebSockets for C2 communication. In addition, since July 2021, malicious cyber actors have used BlackMatter ransomware to target multiple U.S. critical infrastructure entities, including a U.S. Food and...
Malware patrol selected some relevant cybersecurity news over the past 2 weeks. A survey of cyber investigators and antiabuse service providers to understand how ICANN’s application of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has impacted the...
In the past 2 weeks, CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA) have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) alerting organizations of increased Conti ransomware attacks. Also, following a recent Incident Response,...
In the first 2 weeks of September, we saw the LockFile is a new ransomware family that emerged in July 2021 following the discovery in April 2021 of the ProxyShell vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange servers. Also, ransomware groups have shown no signs of slowing...
In the last 2 weeks of August, we saw campaigns use a multitude of infection components to deliver two widely popular commodity malware and remote access trojans (RATs): njRAT and AsyncRAT. Also, campaigns use a multitude of infection components to deliver two widely...
In this first half of August, we saw that during Cyble’s routine Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) research, we came across a malware posted by a researcher on Twitter. Also, a new Android trojan, dubbed FlyTrap, that’s spread to more than 10,000 victims via rigged...
