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Warning: N. Korean Job Scams Push Trojans via LinkedIn
Hey, hey, DPRK, how many people will you scam today? ...
Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of March 14, 2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us ...
Lazarus gang targets engineers with job offers using poisoned emails
Security researchers at AT&T Alien Labs report that a notorious hacking group has been targeting engineers working in the defence industry. In recent months there have been a series of reports of ...
How to Protect Your Business From Multi-Platform Malware Systems
The Lazarus Group (also known as Guardians of Peace or Whois) is a notorious cybercrime gang made up of unknown individuals. According to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations, the group ...
Lazarus Group Used Supply Chain Attack to Target South Korean Users with Malware
The Lazarus group leveraged a supply chain attack to target users located in South Korea with custom malware. On November 16, ESET disclosed that the Lazarus group conducted its supply chain attack ...
Multi-Platform Malware Framework ‘MATA’ Claimed Victims Worldwide
Security researchers discovered a multi-platform malware framework called “MATA” that had succeeded in targeting victims worldwide. On Securelist, Kaspersky Lab revealed that it had shared its discovery of MATA with its Threat ...
Researchers Find SMS Monitoring Malware in Linux Telecom Servers
A state-sponsored tool most likely used by Chinese advanced persistent threat group APT41 was discovered inside the Linux servers of an undisclosed telecom company, surveilling incoming and outgoing SMS messages. FireEye Mandiant ...
North Korean Hackers Tried to Infect macOS Systems with Fake Cryptocurrency App
A hacking collective called the Lazarus Group has been trying to compromise MacOS systems in an elaborate scam involving cryptocurrency software and a realistic-looking website. Lazarus Group, a gang of hackers believed ...
Jackson County pays ransomware operators $400k to regain access to computers
Officials in Jackson County, a rural area in the southeastern US state of Georgia, were forced over the weekend to pay hackers almost half a million dollars after a ransomware attack brought ...
Microsoft Pushes Microcode Updates for Foreshadow CPU Flaws
Microsoft has released patches for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 that update the microcode for some Intel microprocessors to address CPU vulnerabilities, including the recently announced Foreshadow flaws. Foreshadow, or L1 ...
