Money has been and remains the main motivator for cybercriminals. The most widespread techniques of monetizing cyberattacks include selling stolen databases, extortion (using ransomware) and carding. However, there is demand on the dark web not only for data obtained through an attack, but also for the data and services necessary to organize one (e.g., to perform specific steps of a multiphase attack)
We examined the password policies of 120 of the most popular English-language websites in the world.
Cybercrime groups that specialize in stealing corporate data and demanding a ransom not to publish it have tried countless approaches to shaming their victims into paying. The latest innovation in ratcheting up the heat comes from the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group,…
Last week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a 26 million request per second DDoS attack — the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record.
Introduction Rootkits are dangerous pieces of malware. Once in place, they are usually really hard to detect. Their code is typically more challenging to write than other malware, so developers resort to code reuse from open source projects. As rootkits are very interesting to analyze, we are always looking out for these kinds of samples […]
A group of academic researchers from the University of Hamburg in Germany has discovered that mobile devices leak identifying information about their owners via Wi-Fi probe requests.
Confiant monitors 2.5+ billion ads per day via 110+ integrations in the advertising stack. This provides great visibility on malicious activity infiltrating the ad stack and the broader Internet. And that includes all the web3 malicious activity funneling thru it.
The variety and the range of our detection enable Confiant to detect unique malicious activity as soon as it surfaces.
SeaFlower is an example of this unique cluster of malicious activities targeting web3 wallet users that we will document in this blog post.
The IRAY A8Z3 thermal camera for industrial application, manufactured by Infiray/IRay Technologies is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
Earlier this year Malwarebytes released its 2022 Threat Review, a review of the most important threats and cybersecurity trends of 2021, and what they could mean for 2022. Among other things it covers the year’s alarming rebound in malware detections, and a significant shift in the balance of email threats.
Best Practices • Apply patches as soon as possible • Disable unnecessary ports and protocols • Replace end-of-life infrastructure • Implement a centralized patch management system