North Korean Hackers Use ELECTRICFISH Malware to Steal Data. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have issued a joint malware analysis report (MAR) on a malware strain dubbed ELECTRICFISH and used by the North-Korean APT group Lazarus to ex-filtrate data from victims. According to the MAR AR19-129A advisory [...]
RobbinHood ransomware takes down Baltimore City government networks. A year after 911 system hit, most of city's networks are down. Systems at a number of Baltimore’s city government departments were taken offline on May 7 by a ransomware attack. As of 9:00am today, email and other services remain offline. Police, fire, and emergency response systems [...]
KEY POINTS: A malware attack against accounting software giant Wolters Kluwer is causing a ‘quiet panic’ at accounting firms Wolters Kluwer is a tax accounting software and cloud services company that serves a significant portion of U.S. accounting firms, banks and Fortune 500 companies. The company was victim of a malware attack that begin shutting [...]
1.8 Million Users Attacked by Android Banking Malware, 300% Increase Since 2017. The number of Android users attacked by banking malware saw an alarming 300% increase in 2018, with 1.8 million of them being impacted by at least one such attack during the last year. While in 2016 the overall number of attacked users was of [...]