Cyber criminals are abusing the Google Ads system to spread malware in what is known as ‘malvertising’ attacks. As the Google Ads display first before the search results, victims can be conned into clicking onto a fake site when searching for software via Google’s search engine. The malicious websites are designed to impersonate legitimate websites, […]
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The cyber security challenges faced by organisations last year can give hints towards the way cyber crime is evolving this year. Ransomware has established itself as a constant threat, and is now available on demand through ransomware-as-a-service models, phishing events have increased, with more sophisticated landing pages, and widespread flaws such as Log4j continue to
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A legitimate Windows executable is being abused by malicious actors to stealthily infect devices with malware without raising any alarms. The Windows Error Reporting tool WerFault.exe can be exploited to load malware onto a system using a DLL sideloading technique in an attack K7 Security Labs have published an analysis for last week. This legitimate
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Endpoint detection and response (EDR) systems, and antivirus (AV) software, are used to increase the cybersecurity of a device. However, these security software solutions are now able to be exploited for their data deletion capabilities, effectively turning them into data wipers. Security researcher Or Yair at SafeBreach Labs discovered this capability alongside multiple zero-day vulnerabilities
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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise, with the second half of 2021 showing a 43% increase in attacks since the first half of the same year. The Microsoft Digital Defence Report for 2022 shows that so far in 2022 Microsoft have mitigated nearly 2000 DDoS attacks each day. This report also
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Malicious Android apps posing as file managers have been identified and removed from the Google Play Store recently after infecting tens of thousands of users with a SharkBot banking trojan. This is not the only time the Google Play Store has been in the news recently for distributing malicious apps of different types. At the
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The threats faced in cyber security are constantly evolving, with state actors taking part in cyber espionage, and cyber criminal groups creating paid-for campaigns and offering services for hire. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ, and the UK government’s technical authority for cyber security, have released their annual review for 2022
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The threat group tracked as DEV-0832 by Microsoft’s security threat intelligence analysts, also known as Vice Society, are a group of cyber criminals that are thought to have been active since at least June 2021. They have been credited for ransomware and extortion campaigns across the world but have mainly focused on US-based targets. The
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A spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Service Fabric can be exploited by attackers to gain admin privileges and take over Service Fabric clusters. Although there are not currently reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild, proof of concept (PoC) code for this attack vector does exist. Cloud security platform Orca Security first discovered
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The release of the 2022 Falcon OverWatch Threat Hunting Report from CrowdStrike has revealed the recent trends in cyber crime from July 2021 to June 2022. According to the report, the number of cyber crime campaigns has increased by 50% with financial crime accounting for 43% of all attacks. According to CrowdStrike’s analysis cyber crime
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