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RailWorks Corporation ransomware infection potentially compromised personal details of its employees One of the largest US railroad transport provider RailWorks Corporation has suffered a ransomware attack, which also resulted in a data breach of former and current of its employees. As the company reported to the State of California Department of […]

Data breach at RailWorks Corporation was caused by ransomware attack

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Malicious actors decide to follow the well-known trails that were first employed by Maze ransomware operators The creators of DoppelPaymer ransomware have configured a website called “Dopple leaks” that reveals private information collected from users who disagreed to pay the demanded ransom. The exposed information is supposed to include the […]

DoppelPaymer authors create Dopple leaks site, publish victims’ files

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New day – new Emotet feature: compromised systems allow the trojan to spread using Wi-Fi connections Last month ended with news about the campaign, during which Emotet was distributed using Coronavirus spam emails.[1] This week, the new Binary Defense report revealed that Emotet relies on an original method of distribution – Wi-Fi […]

Emotet keeps evolving: trojan can spread by hacking nearby Wi-Fi ...

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Metamorfo malware steals users’ passwords with the help of a keylogging trick Security researchers from Fortinet have recently spotted a new variant of a previously known Windows malware Metamorfo[1] – it is accustomed to targeting customers of over 20 financial institutions. First discovered in April 2018, the banking Trojan was […]

Metamorfo banking Trojan employs new tricks, expands its campaign

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The malicious campaign has reached over 500,000 machines worldwide The Bitbucket[1] code hosting service is being exploited by malicious actors for the distribution of several malware types. According to the latest information, this campaign has already affected more than 500K businesses all over the world. The criminals have been pushing […]

Bitbucket used to deploy arsenal of malware to thousands

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TVEyes crashed when ransomware attacked the core server and engineering workstations Undisclosed ransomware virus attacked TVEyes, radio, and television monitoring service.[1] The media monitoring platform was down and many public relations agencies, political campaign leaders, newsroom people, and journalists lost access to a crucial tool. The infection took place on […]

Ransomware targeted TV&radio monitoring service and caused an outage

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Spam emails were received all over Japan, including Gifu, Osaka, and Tottori cities Malware developers now mimic representatives from healthcare companies by using the tragic news about the widespread coronavirus[1] infection to distribute Emotet banking trojan.[2] People who live in Japan’s cities such as Gifu, Osaka, and Tottori have recently been […]

Coronavirus-related malspam targets Japanese users with Emotet

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A new malware dropper named CARROTBALL is using second-stage payloads to deliver six types of malware to U.S government agencies Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers released a new report[1] on a malicious campaign involving CARROTBAT downloaders with SYSCON payloads and new malware that the team has named CARROTBALL.[2] Malware […]

Phishing emails filled with never-before-seen malware targeting U.S government

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600 misleading messages delivered by Emotet to the United Nations users The United Nations[1] became a target of an infamous Emotet malware.[2] The malicious actors impersonated the Permanent Mission of Norway to give the phishing message a legitimate look. By pretending to represent Norway in the United States of New York, […]

Emotet developers drop phishing emails to the United Nations

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