Most threat actors come and go with the times, not lasting more than a couple years. Prince of Persia was assumed to be one such group, but it turns out they not only returned but never left in the first place.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/9yJ1fxP3
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Most threat actors come and go with the times, not lasting more than a couple years. Prince of Persia was assumed to be one such group, but it turns out they not only returned but never left in the first place.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/9yJ1fxP3
Usually ransomware targets large entities, but as always no one is truly safe online. This specific malware targets individual android users sideloading apps from illegitimate sources.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/3J3uAVHt
CIS recently released an advisory warning of a stealthy backdoor that has been targeting VMWare shots and stealing data from snapshots of virtual machines. These are the details of that backdoor
Sources: https://pastebin.com/ppt9V3b1
In the security world it is becoming more and more necessarily to invest in controls around AI and the web browser. This attack targets both and often leaves absolutely no trace on your end, as the attack never leaves the browser.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/rz744p1b
Cloudflare had a massive outage on Tuesday morning that many suspected was some kind of big attack by nation state hackers, however it turns out to have been a lot more simple than that. A little internal error caused a domino effect that took out much of the web for several hours.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/ftmYtFv7