Threats in the Netherlands
Introduction
On October 4, 2018, the MIVD held a press conference about an intercepted cyberattack on the OPWC in the Netherlands, allegedly by the advanced...
MuddyWater expands operations
Summary
MuddyWater is a relatively new APT that surfaced in 2017. It has focused mainly on governmental targets in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to...
Zero-day exploit (CVE-2018-8453) used in targeted attacks
Yesterday, Microsoft published their security bulletin, which patches CVE-2018-8453, among others. It is a vulnerability in win32k.sys discovered by Kaspersky Lab in August. We...
Moving Beyond Legacy PAM: Centrify Zero Trust Privilege
Our customers trust us to keep their most privileged credentials – the “keys to the kingdom” – secure from being exploited. Over half of...
Shedding Skin – Turla’s Fresh Faces
Turla, also known as Venomous Bear, Waterbug, and Uroboros, may be best known for what was at the time an “ultra complex” snake rootkit...
Getting started with WAPIs using POSTMAN
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Roaming Mantis part III: iOS crypto-mining and spreading via malicious content delivery system
In Q2 2018, Kaspersky Lab published two blogposts about Roaming Mantis sharing details of this new cybercriminal campaign. In the beginning, the criminals used...
USB threats from malware to miners
Introduction
In 2016, researchers from the University of Illinois left 297 unlabelled USB flash drives around the university campus to see what would happen. 98%...
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Cyber attacks enabled by basic failings, Palo Alto analysis finds
Cyberattacks are moving faster, shrinking the gap between initial compromise and bad consequences, and the advent of AI is accelerating...
Malware in the Wild as Malicious Fork of Legitimate Triton App Surfaces on GitHub
A malicious fork of the legitimate macOS application Triton has surfaced on GitHub, exploiting open-source repositories to distribute malware. The fraudulent repository, created...
AI in the Middle: Turning Web-Based AI Services into C2 Proxies & The Future...
Key Points
Check Point Research (CPR) has discovered that certain AI assistants that support web browsing or URL fetching can be abused as covert...
Western cyber alliances risk fragmenting in new world order
The conduct of powerful nations is causing knock-on effects in the cyber world as long-standing security frameworks appear increasingly precarious - Read more
