On 02 February 2023, an alert triggered in a Huntress-protected environment. At first glance, the alert itself was fairly generic - a combination of certutil using the urlcache flag to retrieve a remote resource and follow-on scheduled task creation - but further analysis revealed a more interesting set of circumstances. By investigating the event in question and pursuing root cause analysis (RCA), Huntress was able to link this intrusion to a recently-announced vulnerability as well as to a long-running post-exploitation framework linked to prominent ransomware groups.

The University of Zurich is currently the target of a serious cyberattack. The perpetrators appear to be acting in a very professional manner and are part of a current accumulation of attacks on educational and health institutions. Several attacks have been carried out on universities in German-speaking countries in recent weeks, resulting in suspension of their IT services for extended periods of time. The attacks are usually carried out by compromising several individual accounts and systems.

La première édition de «Trust4SMEs» s’est conclue en présence des 25 PME lémaniques qui y ont participé à ce programme d’accompagnement en cybersécurité. Focalisée sur la sensibilisation des utilisateurs, la matinée a aussi révélé les résultats d’une campagne de phishing inoffensive envoyée à quelque 2'500 employés des PME.

Le tribunal juge qu’en stockant les 3 réplications de sauvegarde au même endroit que le serveur principal, OVH engage sa responsabilité contractuelle au titre du contrat de sauvegarde. Une ligne est en train de se dessiner dans la jurisprudence OVH : d’un côté les sociétés qui avaient pris soin de souscrire, en supplément, un contrat de sauvegarde et peuvent revendiquer une indemnisation, et d’un autre côté celles qui n’avaient pas pris cette précaution et n’ont que leurs yeux pour pleurer.

A recent study shows that top-of-the-line Android phones sold in China are a total privacy nightmare.

The “news broadcasters” appear stunningly real, but they are AI-generated deepfakes in first-of-their-kind propaganda videos that a research report published Tuesday attributed to Chinese state-aligned actors. The fake anchors — for a fictious news outlet called Wolf News — were created by artificial intelligence software and appeared in footage on social media that seemed to […]

The United Kingdom and United States on Thursday sanctioned seven people connected to what officials have told The Record is a single network behind the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gangs as well as the Trickbot banking trojan. The sanctions are described as the first major move of a “new campaign of concerted action” between Britain and the United States, and insiders say that further actions should be expected later this year.

The UK has sanctioned 7 Russian cyber criminals through coordinated actions with the US government.

Today, everything is “smart” or “intelligent”. We have smartphones, smart cars, smart doorbells, etc. Being "smart" means performing actions depending on the context, the environment, or user actions. For a while, backdoors and trojans have implemented screenshot capabilities. From an attacker’s point of view, it’s interesting to “see” what’s displayed on the victim’s computer.

Last October, Trustwave SpiderLabs blogged about the use and prevalence of HTML email attachments to deliver malware and phishing for credentials.

We discovered an active campaign targeting Eastern Europeans in the cryptocurrency industry using fake job lures.

Every year, we publish our estimates of illicit cryptocurrency activity to demonstrate the power of blockchains’ transparency – these kinds of estimates aren’t possible in traditional finance – and to teach investigators and compliance professionals about the latest trends in cryptocurrency-related crime that they need to know about. What could those estimates look like in a year like 2022? Last year was one of the most tumultuous in cryptocurrency history, with several large firms imploding, including Celsius, Three Arrows Capital, FTX, and others — some amid allegations of fraud.

Bitwarden and other password managers are being targeted in Google ads phishing campaigns to steal users' password vault credentials.

7 memory mismanagements and a timing attack. We explain all the jargon bug terminology in plain English…

Ransomware gang says it will share the stolen information in a matter of days