Category: News

Baby Golang-Based Botnet Already Pulling in $3K/Month for Operators

Kraken has already spread like wildfire, but in the past few months, the malware’s author has been tinkering away, adding more infostealers and backdoors.

Ukrainian DDoS Attacks Should Put US on Notice–Researchers

On Tuesday, institutions central to Ukraine’s military and economy were hit with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Impact was limited, but the ramifications are not.

Microsoft Teams Targeted With Takeover Trojans

Threat actors are infiltrating the increasingly popular collaboration app to attach malicious files to chat threads that drop system-hijacking malware.

Kill Cloud Risk: Get Everybody to Stop Fighting Over App Security – Podcast

When it comes to ensuring safe cloud app rollouts, there’s flat-out animosity between business shareholders. HackerOne’s Alex Rice and GitLab’s Johnathan Hunt share tips on quashing all the squabbling.

TrickBot Ravages Customers of Amazon, PayPal and Other Top Brands

The resurgent trojan has targeted 60 top companies to harvest credentials for a wide range of applications, with an eye to virulent follow-on attacks.

Massive LinkedIn Phishing, Bot Attacks Feed on the Job-Hungry

The phishing attacks are spoofing LinkedIn to target ‘Great Resignation’ job hunters, who are also being preyed on by huge data-scraping bot attacks.

Critical VMware Bugs Open ESXi, Fusion & Workstation to Attackers

A group of five security vulnerabilities could lead to a range of bad outcomes for virtual-machine enthusiasts, including command execution and DoS.

High-Severity RCE Bug Found in Popular Apache Cassandra Database

On the plus side, only instances with non-standard not recommended configurations are vulnerable. On the downside, those configurations aren’t easy to track down, and it’s easy as pie to exploit.

Emotet Now Spreading Through Malicious Excel Files

An ongoing malicious email campaign that includes macro-laden files and multiple layers of obfuscation has been active since late December.

SquirrelWaffle Adds a Twist of Fraud to Exchange Server Malspamming

Researchers have never before seen SquirrelWaffle attackers use typosquatting to keep sending spam once a targeted Exchange server has been patched for ProxyLogon/ProxyShell.