Category: News

WordPress Sites Abused in Aggah Spear-Phishing Campaign

The Pakistan-linked threat group’s campaign uses compromised WordPress sites to deliver the Warzone RAT to manufacturing companies in Taiwan and South Korea.

Black Hat: Novel DNS Hack Spills Confidential Corp Data

Threatpost interviews Wiz CTO about a vulnerability recently patched by Amazon Route53’s DNS service and Google Cloud DNS.

Rogue Marketplace AlphaBay Reboots

Illicit underground marketplace relaunches years after takedown.

AdLoad Malware 2021 Samples Skate Past Apple XProtect

A crush of new attacks using the well-known adware involves at least 150 updated samples, many of which aren’t recognized by Apple’s built-in security controls.

Ransomware Payments Explode Amid ‘Quadruple Extortion’

Unit 42 puts the average payout at over half a million, while Barracuda has tracked a 64 percent year over year spike in the number of attacks.

QR Code Scammers Get Creative with Bitcoin ATMs

Threat actors are targeting everyone from job hunters to Bitcoin traders to college students wanting a break on their student loans, by exploiting the popular technology’s trust relationship with users.

Microsoft Warns: Another Unpatched PrintNightmare Zero-Day

The out-of-band warning pairs with a working proof-of-concept exploit for the issue, circulating since mid-July.

Accenture Confirms LockBit Ransomware Attack

LockBit offered Accenture’s purported databases and made a requisite jab at its purportedly sad security. Accenture says it recovered just fine from backups.

NSA Watchdog Will Review Tucker Carlson Spying Claims

Despite a lack of evidence, the National Security Agency will investigate whether the Fox host was illegally targeted.

‘Friends’ Reunion Anchors Video Swindle

Spam was on the rise in Q2, with video fraud and COVID-19-related efforts in the mix.