In August, the Emotet botnet operators began using a new template, named ‘Red Dawn,’ for the malevolent attachments used in new operations. The Emotet malware returned in July 2020, following a five-month hiatus, and started vomiting huge amounts of malicious spam across the globe. These spam operations pretend to be invoices, shipping information, COVID-19 Continue Reading
For large ransom groups, creating so-called “leak sites” has become a major strategy in order to upload and leak important documents from firms who decline to pay the ransomware decryption fee. These sites are part of a new inclination founding on the cybercriminal underground where ransomware groups are espousing a Continue Reading
A group of newbie threat actors from Iran that has been carrying out attacks against companies in Asia and trying to encode their networks with a version of the Dharma ransomware. Cyber-security company Group-IB, which identified the group, has said that the hackers have targeted companies located in Russia, Japan, China, and India. Continue Reading
Who is a Hacker? Although the word “hacker” generally has a negative connotation, a hacker is not always a bad individual. A hacker is only a person who uses computer programming or special techniques to get over a challenge or problem. Hackers may be driven by a number of reasons, Continue Reading
Nefarious local users are likely to exploit shared memory flaw that IBM fixed in its Db2 data management products, leading to information disclosure. Tracked as CVE-2020-4414, the flaw was exposed by researchers from Trustwave, which is caused by the dearth of overt memory protections for the shared memory used by Db2 Continue Reading
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