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Microsoft Adopted an 'Aggressive' Strategy for Sharing SolarWinds Attack Intel

5th March 2021Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor

Rob Lefferts, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365 Security in Security and Compliance, explains the company’s approach to keeping its customers and the [...]

D-Link, IoT Devices Under Attack By Tor-Based Gafgyt Variant

5th March 2021Lindsey O Donnell

A new variant of the Gafgyt botnet – that’s actively targeting vulnerable D-Link and Internet of Things devices – is the first variant [...]

Unpatched Bug in WiFi Mouse App Opens PCs to Attack

3rd March 2021Tom Spring

Wireless mouse-utility lacks proper authentication and opens Windows systems to attack. Source: Threat Post – Mobile Security – Unpatched Bug in WiFi [...]

Lazarus hacker Group Attack Defence Industries with custom-made Malware ThreatNeedle

28th February 2021GURUBARAN S

Lazarus has now added the defence industry to its growing list of victims. Lazarus is a North Korean hacking group that has been [...]

10K Microsoft Email Users Hit in FedEx Phishing Attack

23rd February 2021Lindsey O Donnell

Microsoft users are receiving emails pretending to be from mail couriers FedEx and DHL Express – but that really steal their credentials. [...]

Kia Denies Ransomware Attack as IT Outage Continues

19th February 2021Dark Reading Staff

Kia Motors America states there is no evidence its recent systems outage was caused by a ransomware attack. Source: Dark Reading – [...]

Credential-Stuffing Attack Targets Regional Internet Registry

19th February 2021Lindsey O Donnell

RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry for Europe, West Asia, and the former Soviet Union, said attackers attempted a credential-stuffing attack against its [...]

Kia Motors Hit With $20M Ransomware Attack – Report

18th February 2021Becky Bracken

DoppelPaymer ransomware gang claims credit for Kia’s outage, demands $20 million in double-extortion attack. Source: Threat Post – Mobile Security – Kia [...]

Hiding in Plain Sight: What the SolarWinds Attack Revealed About Efficacy

18th February 2021Pieter Danhieux CEO

Multilayered infiltration involved custom malicious tooling, backdoors, and cloaked code, far beyond the skills of script kiddies. Source: Dark Reading – Threat [...]

Kia Faces $20M DoppelPaymer Ransomware Attack

17th February 2021Dark Reading Staff

Kia Motors America this week experienced a nationwide IT outage; now, reports indicate the company was hit with ransomware. Source: Dark Reading [...]