Polish bodies hit by malware attack post, mei 10, 2024juli 3, 2025 Polish government bodies were hit by a sophisticated malware attack orchestrated by the infamous APT28 hacking group. The campaign employed cunning tactics like email lures and legitimate service abuse to evade detection. Continue Reading
Boeing Confirms Lockbit Hackers Wanted $200 Million Ransom After 2023 Hack post, mei 9, 2024mei 15, 2024 Boeing declined to pay a $200 million ransom in exchange for securing 43GB of data stolen by hackers, the aerospace company confirmed this week. Boeing was hacked in October 2023 by the LockBit ransomware gang, which threatened to release what it said was a “tremendous amount” of sensitive data. LockBit eventually published data from… Continue Reading
Oekraïner moet 13,5 jaar cel in en krijgt 15 miljoen euro boete na megahack post, mei 6, 2024 Een Oekraïner is in de Verenigde Staten veroordeeld tot een celstraf van dertien jaar en zeven maanden. De man is schuldig bevonden aan het uitvoeren van cyberaanvallen met gijzelsoftware via softwaremaker Kaseya. Continue Reading
Nieuwe ‘Cuckoo’ macOS spyware post, mei 6, 2024 Let op als je Mac gebruiker bent en bedenkt dat je muziek wilt rippen. Deze malware is ingebed in gratis en betaalde applicaties die claimt dit voor je te doen. De malware installeert spyware alvorens te hebben gecontroleerd of je systeem zich in Armenië, Wit-Rusland, Kazakhstan, Rusland of Oekraine bevindt…. Continue Reading
Germany points finger at Fancy Bear for widespread 2023 hacks, DDoS attacks post, mei 6, 2024juli 3, 2025 It was just around a year ago that a spate of allegedly Russian-orchestrated cyberattacks hit government agencies in Germany, and now German officials claim to know for a fact who did it: APT28, or Fancy Bear, a Russian threat actor linked to the GRU intelligence service. Continue Reading
Microsoft Outlook Flaw Exploited by Russia’s APT28 to Hack Czech, German Entities post, mei 4, 2024juli 3, 2025 Czechia and Germany on Friday revealed that they were the target of a long-term cyber espionage campaign conducted by the Russia-linked nation-state actor known as APT28, drawing condemnation from the European Union (E.U.), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the U.K., and the U.S. The Czech Republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs… Continue Reading
Aanvallers tonen inventiviteit in DuneQuixote post, mei 2, 2024februari 24, 2025 De afgelopen maand ontdekte DuneQuixote malware campaign laat eens te meer zien hoe inventief aanvallers zijn. DuneQuixote maakt gebruik van twee verschillende ‘droppers’ en twee verschillende ‘payloads’. De dropper wordt gebruik voor de initiele toegang en zet de communicatie met de command&control infrastructuur op. De aanvallers gebruiken delen van Spaanse… Continue Reading
Terug van weggeweest: USB post, mei 1, 2024 De aanval met de USB-stick is nooit helemaal weggeweest, maar in IT-netwerken zagen we de laatste jaren dat beveiligingsmaatregelen succesvolle aanvallen steeds moeilijker maakten. In hun onderzoek laat Honeywell terecht zien dat USB-apparatuur in aanvallen op OT-infrastructuren door aanvallers nog steeds wordt gezien als een belangrijk middel. Hiermee wordt het… Continue Reading
US Post Office phishing sites get as much traffic as the real one post, april 28, 2024april 30, 2024 Security researchers analyzing phishing campaigns that target United States Postal Service (USPS) saw that the traffic to the fake domains is typically similar to what the legitimate site records and it is even higher during holidays. […] The total queries generated by all malicious websites uncovered by Akamai’s research during… Continue Reading
Ukraine Targeted in Cyberattack Exploiting 7-Year-Old Microsoft Office Flaw post, april 27, 2024april 30, 2024 Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a targeted operation against Ukraine that has been found leveraging a nearly seven-year-old flaw in Microsoft Office to deliver Cobalt Strike on compromised systems. The attack chain, which took place at the end of 2023 according to Deep Instinct, employs a PowerPoint slideshow file (“signal-2023-12-20-160512.ppsx”) as… Continue Reading