A 29-year-old man pleaded guilty in court on Friday to hijacking over 900,000 routers from the network of Deutsche Telekom, according to several reports in the German press [1, 2, 3, 4]. TheRead More →
The DarkHotel hacking group, a threat actor known to engage in advanced cyber-espionage tactics, has shifted operations from targeting CEOs and businessmen to political figures. DarkHotel has its own placeRead More →
Over 500,000 users have had their computers infected with a stealthy malware named Stantinko, according to a 99-page report released yesterday by Slovak antivirus maker ESET. The malware is a modularRead More →
This spring, the author of the NukeBot banking Trojan published the source code of his creation. He most probably did so to restore his reputation on a number of hacker forums:Read More →
In this blog post, we will present a new technique for domain fronting, which enables attackers to abuse Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to mask malware command and control (C2) traffic. ThisRead More →
Over the weekend, Emsisoft security researcher xXToffeeXx discovered a new ransomware called Reyptson that is targeting Spanish victims. Since then, we have seen increased activity in the ransomware’s developmen. Today security researcher MalwareHunterTeam took a deeperRead More →
A new Android RAT (Remote Access Trojan) detected under the name of GhostCtrl can lock mobile device by resetting their PIN and display a ransom note to infected victims. TheseRead More →
Yesterday, Malwarebytes malware researcher Marcelo Rivero discovered a new variant of the CryptoMix ransomware that is appending the .EXTE extension to encrypted file names. This article provides a brief summary of information related toRead More →
The origin of Petya The first Petya ransomware was released around March 2016 by a person/group calling themselves Janus Cybercrime Solutions. This group was advertising their affiliate program, giving otherRead More →
A newly discovered Point of Sale (PoS) malware dubbed LockPoS appeared in the wild and it is being delivered through the Flokibot botnet. A newly discovered Point of Sale (PoS) malwareRead More →
