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Gearbest got hacked again
First hacked in December 2017, Chinese e-commerce giant, Gearbest’s website has once again been breached. This time, more than 1.5 million data, which includes user names, date of birth, account passwords, payment information, IP addresses, national identification and passport details were all exposed. Commenting on the breach, Tim Mackey, Technology Evangelist at Synopsys, Inc, said:…
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Kaspersky Lab uncovers Windows zero-day exploited by recently discovered threat actor
Kaspersky Lab’s automated technologies have detected a new exploited vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, believed to have been used in targeted attacks by at least two threat actors, including the recently discovered SandCat. This is the fourth zero-day exploit to be discovered in the wild by Kaspersky Lab’s Automatic Exploit Prevention technology. Kaspersky Lab reported the…
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Trend Micro: Singapore is a hotbed for malicious URLs in SEA in 2018
Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, recently released its 2018 Security Roundup Report, which depicts a threat landscape that has evolved heavily in both approach and tactic. Singapore was the most vulnerable country in Southeast Asia (SEA), with over 3 million malicious URLs hosted locally and over 15 million victims falling prey…
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What’s the fuss about 5G?
Besides the trade war between the US and China, another issue that is giving the Chinese, specifically Huawei, lots of negative media attention is 5G. The US and many other European leaders have openly rejected Huawei to set up a 5G network in their country. It’s a massive setback for the Chinese telecommunications giant who…
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ManageEngine introduces User and Entity Behavior Analytics in its SIEM Solution
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, has announced that it has introduced user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA) into its SIEM solution, Log360. According to Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report, over a quarter of the 53,308 cyber attacks in 2017 involved insiders. Insider threats can be particularly difficult to detect with conventional threat detection systems,…
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Mobile malware attacks doubles in 2018
Kaspersky Lab researchers have seen the number of attacks using malicious mobile software nearly double in just a year. In 2018 there were 116.5 million attacks, compared to 66.4 million in 2017, with a significant increase in unique users being affected. Despite more devices being attacked, the number of malware files has decreased, leading researchers…
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How to lose money to (credential) stocking stuffers
Written by: Samantha Cruz, Cyber Operations Researcher, Horangi Cyber Security The first quarter of 2019 wasn’t good for companies as far as cybersecurity was concerned. The latest casualty in this current crop of security attacks was none other than Dunkin Donuts (DD), that experienced not just one, but two security breaches (both targeting its customer…
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RTM Banking Trojan targeting businesses hits more than 130,000 users in 2018 and continues to attack
Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected a surge in activity by the RTM Banking Trojan: with the overall number of users attacked in 2018 exceeding 130,000 – an increase from as few as 2376 attacked users in 2017. The pace of attacks appears to be continuing into 2019, with more than 30,000 users attacked during the…
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Number of users hit by malware stealing logins to online porn grew more than 100% to reach 110,000 in 2018
The number of users attacked by malware out to steal premium access login data to popular adult websites more than doubled in a year, rising from around 50,000 users in 2017 to 110,000 users in 2018. In all, more than 850,000 attacks were detected. This growth was accompanied by more offers of stolen credential for…
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New Kaspersky CyberTrace streamlines threat intelligence flows for better initial response to cyber threats
The variety of threat intelligence sources available on the market doesn’t always translate into protection from cyber attacks, as organizations struggle to decide which are relevant and most important for them. SIEMs or network security controls get overloaded with a large number of Indicators of Compromise (IoC), and the fact that threat data is provided in…