Ransomware revenue plunges to $456 million in 2022 as more victims refuse to pay up. Here’s what to make of the trend. Ransomware gangs extorted at least $456 million from victims in 2022, which represents a drop of 40 percent from$765 million the year prior, according to research by Chainalysis. Couple this with a fall
Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Mobile Hacking Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the
T-Mobile has admitted that tens of millions of customers had their personal and account information accessed by a malicious actor via an API. The US mobile carrier explained in an SEC filing yesterday that the attack began “on or around” November 25 2022, but was not discovered until January 5 2023, after which time T-Mobile
by Paul Ducklin GUESS YOUR PASSWORD? NO NEED IF IT’S STOLEN ALREADY! Guess your password? Crack your password? Steal your password? What if the crooks already have one of your passwords, and can use it to figure out all your others as well? Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can
It’s common practice to pull down the window shades at night. Homeowners invest in high fences. You may even cover the PIN pad when you type in your secret four-digit code at ATMs. Privacy is key to going about your daily life comfortably in your surroundings. Why shouldn’t privacy also extend to your digital surroundings?
Hello, is it me you’re looking for? Fraudsters still want to help you fix a computer problem you never had in the first place. Tech support scammers have been offering bogus technical support services and “resolving” people’s non-existent problems with their devices or software for years. Using a range of tried-and-tested social engineering tricks, they’ve
Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananFirewall / Network Security A suspected China-nexus threat actor exploited a recently patched vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN as a zero-day in attacks targeting a European government entity and a managed service provider (MSP) located in Africa. Telemetry evidence gathered by Google-owned Mandiant indicates that the exploitation occurred as early as October
Security researchers discovered over 400 malicious packages in the popular open source registry npm in December, and dozens more in PyPI. Sonatype explained in a blog post that its AI tooling spotted 422 malicious npm packages focused mainly on data exfiltration via typosquatting or “dependency confusion attacks.” Additionally, it found 58 malicious packages in PyPI,
Summary In August 2022, Secureworks® Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers discovered a vulnerability in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) that allowed a user to retain access to a targeted Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) application after the user assignment was removed. Using a backdoor application that was given consent to access the SAML application, a
Written by James Schmidt Editor’s Note: We often speak of online scams in our blogs, ones that cost victims hundreds if not thousands of dollars. This account puts a face on one of those scams—along with the personal, financial, and emotional pain that they can leave in their wake. This is the story of “Meredith,”
Jan 19, 2023Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Security Breach Popular email marketing and newsletter service Mailchimp has disclosed yet another security breach that enabled threat actors to access an internal support and account admin tool to obtain information about 133 customers. “The unauthorized actor conducted a social engineering attack on Mailchimp employees and contractors, and obtained
Some 94% of European organizations are struggling to find skilled practitioners to take up crucial privacy-related roles, according to new research from professional association ISACA. The IT audit and governance body polled 375 privacy professionals across the region in Q4 2022, as part of a wider global study: Privacy in Practice. It found that, although
by Paul Ducklin Earlier this month, the NortonLifeLock online identity protection service, owned by Arizona-based technology company Gen Digital, sent a security warning to many of its customers. The warning letter can be viewed online, for example on the website of the Office of the Vermont Attorney General, where it appears under the title NortonLifeLock
Authored by Dennis Pang Online protection software. Antivirus. The two words get used interchangeably often enough. But sure enough, they’re different. And yet directly related when you take a closer look. The term “antivirus” has been with us for decades now, dating back to the first software that was designed to prevent computers from getting
Don’t be the next victim – here’s what to know about some of the most common tricks that scammers use on the payment app Today’s consumers have a wealth of choice when it comes to paying and sending money online. A range of slick digital payment apps have emerged over recent years to make the
Jan 18, 2023Ravie LakshmananICS/SCADA Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published four Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories, calling out several security flaws affecting products from Siemens, GE Digital, and Contec. The most critical of the issues have been identified in Siemens SINEC INS that could lead to remote code execution via
Security researchers detected twice as many cases of corporate access being sold on the dark web by initial access brokers (IABs) last year as during the previous 12 months, with the number of brokers also surging. Group-IB spotted 2348 instances of IAB sales activity between H2 2021 and H1 2022, with the number of countries
by Paul Ducklin Another day, another series of cryptocurrency scams… …these, fortunately, brought to a halt, though sadly not before they’d defrauded “investors” around the globe to the tune of millions of dollars. According to Europol, 216 people were questioned in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany and Serbia; 15 have already been arrested; 22 searches were conducted,
It is now acceptable to find a job on a dating app! As we observed last week, many enterprises and small and medium businesses (SMBs) take advantage of solutions such as Slack, Zoom or Microsoft Teams for collaborative work. At the same time, these platforms are still trying to figure out better ways to create
Jan 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Supply Chain A threat actor by the name Lolip0p has uploaded three rogue packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to drop malware on compromised developer systems. The packages – named colorslib (versions 4.6.11 and 4.6.12), httpslib (versions 4.6.9 and 4.6.11), and libhttps (version 4.6.12)
TikTok has been fined €5m ($5.4m) by the French data protection regulator for failing to provide users with enough information on the purpose of cookies on its site or give them an easy way to decline those cookies. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) said the multimillion-dollar fine was levied at TikTok UK
Jan 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Online Safety Popular short-form video hosting service TikTok has been fined €5 million (about $5.4 million) by the French data protection watchdog for breaking cookie consent rules, making it the latest platform to face similar penalties after Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft since 2020. “Users of ‘tiktok[.]com’ could not refuse
Russian cyber-criminals have been observed on dark web forums trying to bypass OpenAI’s API restrictions to gain access to the ChatGPT chatbot for nefarious purposes. Various individuals have been observed, for instance, discussing how to use stolen payment cards to pay for upgraded users on OpenAI (thus circumventing the limitations of free accounts). Others have
Hybrid work and hybrid play now merge into hybrid living, but where is the line between the two? Is there one? That the COVID-19 pandemic brought a new normal to businesses, educational institutions, and our everyday lives is an understatement. Many interactions, whether work-related or personal, moved online or at least gained a virtual mirror.
Jan 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Data Security DevOps platform CircleCI on Friday disclosed that unidentified threat actors compromised an employee’s laptop and leveraged malware to steal their two-factor authentication-backed credentials to breach the company’s systems and data last month. The CI/CD service CircleCI said the “sophisticated attack” took place on December 16, 2022, and that
The pro-Russia hacktivist group known as NoName057(16) has recently started new attacks against organizations and businesses across Poland, Lithuania and other countries. Most recently, the group began targeting the websites of the Czech presidential election candidates. According to SentinelOne, who discovered the new campaigns, the group conducted these campaigns by using public Telegram channels, a distributed
StrongPity’s backdoor is fitted with various spying features and can record phone calls, collect texts, and gather call logs and contact lists This week, the ESET research team published their findings about an espionage campaign by the StrongPity APT group that spreads a fully functional, but trojanized version of the legitimate Telegram app for Android.
Jan 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Patch Management A majority of internet-exposed Cacti servers have not been patched against a recently patched critical security vulnerability that has come under active exploitation in the wild. That’s according to attack surface management platform Censys, which found only 26 out of a total of 6,427 servers to be
The Guardian has confirmed that threat actors stole the personal data of UK staff members during the ransomware attack that affected its systems on December 20, 2022. The updates come from The Guardian Media Group’s chief executive, Anna Bateson, and The Guardian‘s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, who emailed staff members on Wednesday. The executives have described
by Paul Ducklin THE CRYPTO CRISIS THAT WASN’T Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and anywhere that good
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