IT Security and Data Protection
Egregor Ransomware Strikes Metro Vancouver’s TransLink
The Egregor ransomware gang struck TransLink, the authority responsible for managing Metro Vancouver’s transportation network. On December 1, TransLink announced that certain issues were affecting its phones, online services and payment systems ...
Aircraft maker Embraer admits hackers breached its systems and stole data
Embraer, a Brazilian manufacturer of aircraft, has disclosed that hackers managed to breach its computer systems, and steal data. Although Embraer may not be a household name, it is the world’s third-largest ...
Global Phishing Campaign Sets Sights on COVID-19 Cold Chain
A global phishing campaign targeted organizations associated with the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) cold chain. Discovered by IBM Security X-Force, the operation began in September 2020 by targeting multiple entities that support the ...
Email Attackers Using Auto-Forwarding Rules to Perpetrate BEC Scams
U.S. law enforcement learned that email attackers are using auto-forwarding rules to help them to perpetrate Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. In a Private Industry Notification published on November 25, the FBI ...
Back-to-Work Phishing Campaign Targeting Corporate Email Accounts
A phishing campaign used what appeared to be back-to-work notifications in order to compromise recipients’ corporate email accounts. Near the end of November, Abnormal Security detected one of the campaign’s attack emails ...
Apple-Notarized Malware: What It Is and How It Affects Mac Users
Malicious actors are targeting Apple. Although Apple introduced a notarization mechanism to scan and prevent malicious code from running on Apple devices, attackers have found ways to circumvent this process. Such Apple-notarized ...
From Alan Turing to Future Artificial Intelligences – Reading Security Signals
The notion that the time we are living in now is “unprecedented” is a common one, but historians and philosophers alike will happily note that things are rarely so different that we ...
New Mount Locker Ransomware Version Targeting TurboTax Files
A new version of the Mount Locker crypto-ransomware strain is specifically targeting victims’ TurboTax files. As reported by Bleeping Computer, Advanced Intel’s Vitali Kremez came across a new Mount Locker sample that ...
Egregor Ransomware Attack Hijacks Printers to Spit Out Ransom Notes
So, you’re a ransomware gang and you want to ensure that you have caught the attention of your latest corporate victim. You could simply drop your ransom note onto the desktop of ...
Phishers Using Redirector Sites with Custom Subdomains for Evasion
Malicious actors launched a phishing attack that’s using redirector websites with custom subdomains in order to evade detection. On November 16, Microsoft Security Intelligence tweeted out that it had spotted the phishing ...
