The LockBit ransomware gang is one of the most notorious organized cybercrime syndicates that exists today. The gang is behind attacks targeting private-sector corporations and other high-profile industries worldwide. News and media outlets have documented many LockBit attacks, while security vendors offer technical assessments explaining how each occurred. Although these provide insight into the attacks, I wanted to know more about the human side of the operation to learn about the insights, motivations, and behaviors of the individuals on the other side of the keyboard. To prepare for this project, I spent months developing several online personas and established their credibility over time to gain access to the gang’s operation.

The Galaxy App Store is an alternative application store that comes pre-installed on Samsung Android devices. Several Android applications are available on both the Galaxy App Store and Google App Store, and users have the option to use either store to install specific applications. Two vulnerabilities were uncovered with the Galaxy App Store application: Technical…

PayPal has alerted over 35,000 customers of a data breach revealing that their accounts were hacked between December 6th and 8th, 2022.

Introduction On January 10, 2023, ManageEngine released a security advisory for CVE-2022-47966 (discovered by Khoadha of Viettel Cyber Security) affecting a wide range of products. The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain remote code execution by issuing a HTTP POST request containing a malicious SAML response. This vulnerability is a result of  using an outdated […]

T-Mobile disclosed a new data breach after a threat actor stole the personal information of 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts through one of its Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Hackers are setting up fake websites for popular free and open-source software to promote malicious downloads through advertisements in Google search results.

Roaming Mantis (a.k.a Shaoye) is a long-term cyberattack campaign that uses malicious Android package (APK) files to control infected Android devices and steal data. In 2022, we observed a DNS changer function implemented in its Android malware Wroba.o.

We discuss the Batloader malware campaigns we observed in the last quarter of 2022, including our analysis of Water Minyades-related events (This is the intrusion set we track behind the creation of Batloader).

Apple has launched its recent major security updates to the whole world.

This is the second breach to hit Mailchimp in six months. It also appears to be almost identical to a previous incident.

The charges were part of an intensifying effort by federal law enforcement agencies, in conjunction with European partners, to combat international cryptocurrency schemes and illegal transactions.

The arrest comes as the U.S. ramps up efforts to crack down on attempts by cybercriminals to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions.

Sophos took immediate steps to remediate CVE-2022-3236 – an unauthenticated and remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Sophos Firewall Webadmin and User Portal HTTP interfaces – with an automated hotfix sent out in September 2022. Through its advisory published on September 23, 2022, it also alerted users who don't receive automatic hotfixes to apply the update themselves. The advisory stated the vulnerability had previously been used against "a small set of specific organizations, primarily in the South Asia region." In December, Sophos released v19.5 GA GA with an official fix.
Key Takeaways

• As there are no public proof-of-concept exploits for CVE-2022-3236, we created our own to determine its potential for mass exploitation.
• We scanned internet-facing Sophos Firewalls and found more than 4,000 firewalls that were too old to receive a hotfix.
• We encourage Sophos Firewall administrators to look through their logs to determine if they see indications of exploit attempts. Two files to focus on include /logs/csc.log and /log/validationError.log.
• Internet-facing firewalls appear to largely be eligible for hotfixes and the default authentication captcha likely prevented mass exploitation.

Samples of four malicious software downloaded and run on macOS 13.1. Could it detect and block them effectively? Or do you need 3rd party protection?

Stay ahead of the game with our review on macOS malware threats. Learn about the top techniques used by threat actors to deliver malware and how to build more resilient defenses.

Malicious Google Ad --> Fake Notepad++ Page --> Aurora Stealer malware

Google Ads is one of the most popular advertising platform, but it's also a target for cybercriminals. Learn how they are using it to spread malware.

NFT influencer @NFT_GOD downloaded malware through Google Ads while attempting to download OBS, an open-source video streaming software.

A newly uncovered technique to abuse Google’s ad-words powerful advertisement platform is spreading rogue promoted search results in mass. Pointing to allegedly credible advertisement sites that are fully controlled by threat actors, those are used to masquerade and redirect ad-clickers to malicious phishing pages gaining the powerful credibility and targeting capabilities of Google’s search results. Adding customized malware payloads, threat actors are raising the bar for successful malware deployments on Personal PCs with ad words like Grammarly, Malwarebytes, and Afterburner as well as with Visual Studio, Zoom, Slack, and even Dashlane to target organizations.

The FortiGuard Labs team discovered an attack embedded in three PyPI packages called ‘colorslib’, ‘httpslib’, and “libhttps”. Read our blog to learn more.