Lazarus Group
Ransomware Victims That Pay Up Could Incur Steep Fines from Uncle Sam
Companies victimized by ransomware and firms that facilitate negotiations with ransomware extortionists could face steep fines from the U.S. federal government if the crooks who profit from the attack are already under ...
Lazarus Group May Have Hacked Indian Nuclear Power Plant
Authorities from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) have admitted that malware, believed to originate from the Lazarus Group, infected the administrative network of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. Initial ...
Jackson County pays ransomware operators $400k to regain access to computers
Officials in Jackson County, a rural area in the southeastern US state of Georgia, were forced over the weekend to pay hackers almost half a million dollars after a ransomware attack brought ...
North Korean Lazarus Group Starts Targeting Russian Organizations
In an unusual move, the Lazarus hacking group associated with the North Korean government has recently started targeting organizations from Russia. The group’s primary targets until now have been organizations from countries ...
Windows VCF Zero-Day Exploit Allows Remote Code Execution
A new unpatched vulnerability in Windows has been disclosed along with proof-of-concept exploit code. It could allow hackers to more easily install malware on computers, but it requires user interaction. The vulnerability ...
Cloud Hosting Provider DataResolution.net Battling Christmas Eve Ransomware Attack
Cloud hosting provider Dataresolution.net is struggling to bring its systems back online after suffering a ransomware infestation on Christmas Eve, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The company says its systems were hit by the ...
Microsoft Patches Another Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability
Microsoft released security updates for its products Dec. 11, fixing 38 vulnerabilities including a privilege escalation flaw in the Windows kernel that has been exploited by cyberespionage groups since October. The zero-day ...
APT28 Pulls Out New Malware Cannon
The notorious Russian cyberespionage group known as APT28, Fancy Bear and Sofacy is targeting government organizations using a new Trojan program called Cannon. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks detected new spear-phishing campaigns ...
British Airways Suffers Customer Payment Card Breach
Hackers managed to breach and access the personal and financial details of British Airways customers who booked flights through the company’s website and mobile app in the past three weeks. Data from ...
Hackers Exploit Right-to-Left Override Bug in Telegram to Distribute Malware
Hackers have exploited a bug in how Telegram’s Windows messaging client displays file names that contain a right-to-left override (RLO) character, to infect users with malware. The RLO character, represented by “U+202E” ...
