World Cyber News

Cybercriminals continue to improve the infamous Mirai botnet by adding new exploits and functionalities, experts warn new dangerous variant will appear in the wild. According to Netscout’s Arbor Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT), cybercriminals continue to improve the dreaded Mirai IoT botnet by adding new exploits and functionalities. The time to market of […]

The VPNFilter botnet that was built by Russian cyberspies, which infected over 500,000 routers, and was taken down last week by the FBI is attempting a comeback, according to telemetry data gathered this week. Security researchers from JASK and GreyNoise Intelligence revealed on Friday that they had detected the same threat actor that built the first […]

A North Korea-linked APT group, tracked as  AndarielGroup, leveraged an ActiveX zero-day vulnerability in targeted attacks against South Korean entities. According to a report published by South Korean cyber-security firm AhnLab, the Andariel Group is a division of the dreaded Lazarus APT Group, it  already exploited ActiveX vulnerabilities in past attacks The attackers exploited at […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI issued a joint Technical alert on two strain on malware, the Joanap backdoor Trojan and Brambul Server Message Block worm, associated with the HIDDEN COBRA North Korea-linked APT group.   “Working with U.S. government partners, DHS and FBI identified Internet Protocol (IP) addresses […]

Banking malware (also referred to as banker) has been decreasing in popularity among cybercrooks for a few years now, one of the reasons being that both anti-malware companies and web browser developers are continuously widening the scope of their protection mechanisms against banking Trojan attacks. This results in conventional banking […]

A North Korea-linked APT group tracked as Sun Team has targeted North Korean deflectors with a malicious app that was published in the official Google Play store. A North Korea-linked APT group tracked as Sun Team has targeted North Korean deflectors with a malicious app that was published in the official Google Play store. The campaign, […]

Several banks in Mexico have experienced large cash transfers in recent weeks after cyber-criminals infiltrated some financial institutions which led to unauthorized transactions, as claimed by the central bank in an interview with Bloomberg. Banco de Mexico has zeroed in on 5 financial institutions that have had their external connection to […]

About 301,580 consumers reported cyber-fraud and malware attacks to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) last year – with reported losses exceeding a whopping $1.4 billion. The year’s haul of reports brings the overall total of complaints since the IC3 began recording such things to 4 million. Top threats […]

Security researchers have discovered the first IoT botnet malware strain that can survive device reboots and remain on infected devices after the initial compromise. This is a major game-changing moment in the realm of IoT and router malware. Until today, equipment owners could always remove IoT malware from their smart […]