Category: Ransomware
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Microsoft warns of Volt Typhoon, latest salvo in global cyberwar
Image: pinkeyes/Adobe Stock Microsoft’s warning on Wednesday that the China-sponsored actor Volt Typhoon attacked U.S. infrastructure put a hard emphasis on presentations by cybersecurity and international affairs experts that a global war in cyberspace is pitting authoritarian regimes against democracies. Jump to: China’s commitment to cyberwarfare Microsoft’s notification pointed out that Volt Typhoon — which…
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BECs double in 2022, overtaking ransomware
A look at 4th quarter 2022, data suggests that new threat surfaces notwithstanding, low-code cybersecurity business email compromises including phishing, as well as MFA bombing are still the prevalent exploits favored by threat actors. Image: Adobe Stock Cybersecurity defenders peering into the fog hoping to catch a glimpse of the next threat might be staring…
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CrowdStrike: Attackers focusing on cloud exploits, data theft
Image: Ar_TH/Adobe Stock CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm that tracks the activities of global threat actors, reported the largest increase in adversaries it has ever observed in one year — identifying 33 new threat actors and a 95% increase in attacks on cloud architectures. Cases involving “cloud-conscious” actors nearly tripled from 2021. “This growth indicates a…
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OneNote documents spread malware in several countries
A new phishing campaign abuses OneNote documents to infect computers with the infamous AsyncRAT malware, targeting users in the U.K., Canada and the U.S. Image: Sashkin/Adobe Stock As Microsoft decided to change the default of its Office products to block macros on files downloaded from the internet, cybercriminals saw one of their favorite infection methods…