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The Growing Threat of Pre-Infected Android Devices: Lemon Group’s Guerrilla Malware Campaign An Unknowing Contributor to Cybercrime Millions of Android phone users worldwide, without their knowledge, are helping the Lemon Group profit through their unwitting use of pre-infected devices. The Lemon Group has pre-installed their Guerrilla malware onto these devices, turning these phones into tools…
US offers $10m bounty for Russian ransomware suspect outed in indictment The United States government has offered a bounty of $10m for the arrest and/ or conviction of Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a Russian national accused of carrying out or enabling ransomware attacks. Matveev, also known by his aliases Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, and Uhodiransomwar, is accused…
BianLian Ransomware Group Shifts to Data Exfiltration-Based Extortion Tactics Introduction The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) have issued an advisory warning organizations about the ransomware developer and data extortion group, BianLian. The group has been active since 2022, and has…
Zoom Executives Knew About Key Elements of Plan to Censor Chinese Activists In 2019, Zoom, the American videoconferencing platform faced a massive crisis when the Chinese authorities decided to block the platform, claiming that it hadn’t done enough to suppress anti-government speech. This was a major blow to Zoom as the company had both clients…
The Importance of Cybersecurity Testing in the Face of Increasingly Volatile Threat Landscape The Need for Adversary-centric Approach In today’s world, it is critical for organizations to understand who their adversaries are and how they operate against their enterprise environments. Organizations’ approach to cybersecurity testing and resilience improvements in the face of an increasingly volatile…
Privacy Breach: Popular Fertility App Accused of Sharing Health Data with Advertisers The makers of the popular fertility-tracking app Premom, Easy Healthcare, have been accused of repeatedly misleading users by sharing sensitive health data to third-party advertisers without their permission, according to a recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint. This health data included sexual and…
An ongoing spyware campaign targets Yemen attendees and aid workers A sophisticated spyware campaign has been uncovered by the Insikt Group, which is targeting attendees of Saudi government-led negotiations on Yemen along with humanitarian and reconstruction aid workers working toward Yemeni stability, on behalf of the pro-Houthi movement. Insikt Group researchers have been monitoring the…
Apple‘s Ongoing Battle with Fraudulent Apps on the App Store Overview Apple‘s App Store is home to millions of apps, catering to various user needs. However, not all developers on the platform can be trusted, with many engaging in fraudulent activities such as privacy violations and spammy or misleading features. In its recently published report…
Threat actors have been selling access to energy sector organizations, including industrial control systems (ICS) and other operational technology (OT) systems, according to a new report from Searchlight Cyber. The UK-based cyber threat intelligence firm analyzed posts published between February 2022 and February 2023 on cybercrime forums, dark web sites, and marketplaces, and found many…
Cybersecurity Now a Critical Component for Successful Business Operations New SEC Regulations on Cybersecurity In recent years, cybersecurity has become a key element of business operations as companies face an ever-evolving threat landscape. The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed new regulations that require companies to reveal any serious cybersecurity attacks and name the…