‘Pay Ransom’ Screen? Too Late, Humpty Dumpty – Podcast
Splunk’s Ryan Kovar discusses the rise in supply-chain attacks a la Kaseya & how to get ahead of encryption leaving your business a pile of broken shells.
Malware
Man Sues Parents of Teens Who Hijacked Nearly $1M in Bitcoin
Now adults, the then-teens apparently used clipboard hijacking malware to steal Bitcoin.
Podcast: Ransomware Up x10: Disrupting Cybercrime Suppy Chains an Opportunity
Derek Manky, Chief, Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, discusses the top threats and lessons learned from the first half of 2021.
The new APT uses an undocumented backdoor to infiltrate the education, retail and government sectors.
Cybersecurity watchdog Citizen Lab saw the new zero-day FORCEDENTRY exploit successfully deployed against iOS versions 14.4 & 14.6, blowing past Apple’s new BlastDoor sandboxing feature to install spyware on the iPhones of Bahraini activists – even one living in London at the time.
Researchers have spotted the latest version of the Triada trojan targeting mobile devices via an advertising SDK.
Chad Anderson, senior security researcher for DomainTools, demonstrates how seemingly disparate pieces of infrastructure information can form perfect fingerprints for tracking cyberattackers’ infrastructure.
Campaign emails company insiders and initially offers 1 million in Bitcoin if they install DemonWare on an organization’s network.
Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra, lays out the different layers of ransomware defense all companies should implement.
The North Korea-linked APT group leverages known Internet Explorer vulns for watering-hole attacks.
