QNAP Systems, Inc. is a Taiwanese company that specializes in network-attached storage equipment for applications such as file sharing, virtualization, storage management, and surveillance. What Happened? The DeadBolt ransomware organization…
Day: January 26, 2022
TrickBot Crashes Browser Tabs to Hinder Malware Analysis
TrickBot is continuously evolving, as the malware has been recently extended with new features. These challenge its research, analysis, and detection as its latest variants are improved to crash browser…
The Log4j flaw hasn't led to massive hacking attacks. But that doesn't mean the threat is over
Log4Shell affected hundreds of millions of devices and was cast as a critical tech emergency that would almost certainly be exploited attackers around the globe. But a month after the…
2022 Cybersecurity predictions: Bitdefender Expert Picks
2021 wasn’t the best year for cybersecurity — if you pitted companies versus malicious hackers, hackers easily took the lead and seem to be in a prime position to repeat…
DazzleSpy: Pro-democracy org hijacked to become macOS spyware distributor
Researchers have uncovered a new strain of macOS malware in targeted attacks against visitors to a Hong Kong pro-democracy radio station website. The website was used to facilitate a watering…
Experts Reveals 29% Surge in Bugs Used by Ransomware Actors
Experts Reveals 29% Surge in Bugs Used by Ransomware Actors There’s been a 29% increase in the number of vulnerabilities exploited by ransomware groups to compromise their targets over the…
UK NCSC Releases Nmap NSE Scripts to Discover Unpatched Flaws
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is a government organization in the United Kingdom that advises and supports the public and private sectors on how to prevent computer security threats.…
Government Trials Effort to Make Bug Scanning Easier
Government Trials Effort to Make Bug Scanning Easier The UK’s leading cybersecurity agency has revealed details of a new initiative designed to make it easier for system administrators to root…
Home Working Drives 44% Surge in Insider Threats
Home Working Drives 44% Surge in Insider Threats Insider threats cost organizations an average of over $15m annually to remediate last year, with stolen credentials a growing risk, according to Proofpoint. The…
Trickbot will now try to crash researcher PCs to stop reverse engineering attempts
The Trickbot Trojan has been revised with a new set of anti-reverse engineering features including the capability to crash computers if analysis tools are detected. Over the years, Trickbot has…