World Cyber News

British Airways annonce un vol de données qui pourrait concerner 380 000 cartes de paiement En raison d’une faille informatique, les réservations faites sur le site Internet et sur l’application de la compagnie aérienne entre le 21 août et le 5 septembre ont pu être compromises. La compagnie aérienne britannique British Airways a […]

The world has seen its fair share of cybercriminal gangs. The cyber criminal group “Silence” is rising among the ranks it would seem. Group-IB, a cybersecurity company was able to identify and expose the crimes committed by Silence. The gang’s main targets are banks, especially those in Russia, although attacks […]

For the past weeks our Threat Intelligence team has been following an enxtesive campaign, possibly operated by the same group, targeting a large amount of financial institutions, cyptocurrency wallets and the occasional Google and Apple accounts. The attackers target their victims both with Phishing emails, typo-squatted domains and malicious attachments […]

Though only two members strong, hackers pose a credible threat to banks in Russia and multiple countries. A pair of Russian-speaking hackers, likely working in legitimate information security roles, has quietly emerged as a major threat to banks in Russia and numerous other former Soviet republics in recent months. The […]

The Iran-linked APT group OilRig was recently observed using a new variant of the OopsIE Trojan that implements news evasion capabilities. Experts at Palo Alto observed a new campaign carried out by the Iran-linked APT group OilRig that was leveraging on a new variant of the OopsIE Trojan. The OilRig hacker group is an Iran-linked APT that has […]

The security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab discovered more than 7,500 MikroTik routers that have been compromised to enable Socks4 proxy maliciously Earlier August, experts uncovered a massive crypto jacking campaign that was targeting  MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. The campaign started in Brazil, but it […]

New Hakai IoT botnet takes aim at D-Link, Huawei, and Realtek routers After silently growing in the shadows for months, a new IoT botnet is now making its presence felt online, popping up on more and more security researchers’ radars in the past two weeks. Tracked by the infosec community […]

On August 13, ASERT observed the Cobalt crime gang actively pushing a new campaign aimed at institutions in eastern Europe and Russia. Security experts from Netscout’s ASERT uncovered a new campaign carried out by the Cobalt cybercrime group. The attacks were detected on August 13, 2018, experts revealed that the hackers targeted also the NS Bank […]

Introduction The Securonix Threat Research team recently learned of a new high-profile cyber attack targeting SWIFT/ATM infrastructure of Cosmos Bank (COSDINBB), a 112-year old cooperative bank in India and the second largest in the country, resulting in over US$13.5 million stolen [1,2]. Below is a summary of what we currently […]