Chinese threat actors extract big data and sell it on the dark web Data Breach by Steve Zurier - April 19, 20210 A sign is posted on the exterior of Twitter headquarters on April 26, 2017 in San Francisco, California. Among the incidents data stolen by Chinese hackers involved a Twitter database. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Researchers on Monday reported that cybercriminals are taking advantage of China’s push to become a leader
Threat actors targeted Slack and Discord as the pandemic raged on Data Breach by Steve Zurier - April 8, 20210 A pedestrian walks past a Slack logo outside its headquarters on December 1, 2020 in San Francisco, California. Collaborative tools proved an easy target for hackers during the pandemic. (Photo by Stephen Lam/Getty Images) Researchers on Wednesday reported that as the pandemic continued this past year, threat actors adjusted to employee
Threat actors bypassing shoddy patching, targeting network gateways Data Breach by Derek B. Johnson - March 12, 20210 Pictured: Rapid7 headquarters in Boston. A new report from Rapid7 examining the 2020 vulnerability landscape finds that criminal and nation-state hackers are increasingly relying on attacks that target gateways to corporate networks and finding alternative ways to exploit patched flaws. The report found that the volume of published vulnerabilities has increased “significantly”
Netwalker ransomware actors go fileless to make attacks untraceable Data Breach by Bradley Barth - May 18, 20200 Malicious actors have been spotted using an especially sneaky fileless malware technique — reflective dynamic-link library (DLL) injection — to infect victims with Netwalker ransomware in hopes of making the attacks untraceable while frustrating security analysts. In a company blog post on Monday, Trend Micro threat analyst Karen Victor writes that
State actors may be behind ongoing cyberattack on Austria’s foreign ministry Data Breach by Teri Robinson - January 6, 20200 An ongoing and “serious cyberattack” at Austria’s foreign ministry could be the work of nation-state actors, the country’s government said. The ministry has set up a “coordination committee” to respond to the attack, which started as the country’s Greens party okayed an alliance with conservatives. While the foreign ministry discovered the attack and responded quickly, the incident