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PlugX Trojan Disguised as Legitimate Windows Debugger Tool in Latest Attacks
By: Feb 27, 2023Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Attack The PlugX remote access trojan has been observed masquerading as an open…
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Massive HTTP DDoS Attack Hits Record High of 71 Million Requests/Second
By: Feb 14, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…
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Chinese Hackers Targeting South American Diplomatic Entities with ShadowPad
By: Feb 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat Intelligence Microsoft on Monday attributed a China-based cyber espionage actor to a set of…
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Chinese Tonto Team Hackers’ Second Attempt to Target Cybersecurity Firm Group-IB Fails
By: Feb 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat Intelligence The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Tonto Team carried out an…
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New ESXiArgs Ransomware Variant Emerges After CISA Releases Decryptor Tool
By: Feb 11, 2023Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Endpoint Security After the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a decryptor…
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Researchers Uncover Obfuscated Malicious Code in PyPI Python Packages
By: Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Software Security Four different rogue packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) have…
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Gootkit Malware Adopts New Tactics to Attack Healthcare and Finance Firms
By: Feb 09, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Malware The Gootkit malware is prominently going after healthcare and finance organizations in…
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Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Linked to Ryuk Ransomware
By: Feb 08, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Endpoint Security A Russian national on February 7, 2023, pleaded guilty in the U.S.…
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VMware Finds No Evidence of 0-Day in Ongoing ESXiArgs Ransomware Spree
By: Feb 07, 2023Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Zero-Day VMware on Monday said it found no evidence that threat actors are…
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Linux Variant of Clop Ransomware Spotted, But Uses Faulty Encryption Algorithm
By: Feb 07, 2023Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Linux The first-ever Linux variant of the Clop ransomware has been detected in the…