Cobalt Dickens

COBALT DICKENS Launched New Phishing Operation against Universities

COBALT DICKENS Launched New Phishing Operation against Universities

| | Cobalt Dickens, education, IT Security and Data Protection, Latest Security News, Phishing
The COBALT DICKENS threat group stayed busy over the summer by launching a new global phishing operation targeting universities. In July and August 2019, Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) researchers observed COBALT ...
The State of Security
ransomware Security Boulevard’s 5 Most Read Stories for the Week

Security Boulevard’s 5 Most Read Stories for the Week, August 20-24

| | Anti-Malware, Apache ActiveMQ, APT28, Cobalt Dickens, cyberespionage, data protection, Endpoint security, Fancy Bear, GDPR, government-sponsored attack, IoT malware, Iranian hackers, Malware, Mirai, phishing domain, Privacy, Security Awareness, video, web app security, website spoofing
A new week, a new crop of security stories. Last week, malware complacency, Russian cyberspies, GDPR compliance and Mirai IoT malware made the headlines. In addition, we analyzed top security threats for ...
Security Boulevard

A week in security (August 20 – 26)

| | a week in security, badgelife, Cobalt Dickens, Cybersecurity, cybersecurity awareness, digital entropy of death, Elections, facebook, google, green card scam, Privacy, project insecurity, Ransomware, recap, Ryuk, search browser extensions, Security world, superdrug, the lazarus group, Twitch, Vulnerabilities, Week in security, weekly blog roundup
A roundup of the security news from August 20 – 26, including a look at insider threats, several breaches, and what tech giants Google and Facebook are doing about their privacy issues ...
Malwarebytes Labs
Mirai IoT Malware Variant Abuses Linux Cross-Compilation Framework

Mirai IoT Malware Variant Abuses Linux Cross-Compilation Framework

| | Apache ActiveMQ, Cobalt Dickens, cyberespionage, IoT malware, Iranian hackers, Mirai, website spoofing
Researchers have found a malware program based on Mirai that has binaries for many platforms and CPU architectures, allowing it to run even on Linux servers or Android phones. The difficulty of ...
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