Manchester United: IT Systems Disrupted in Cyberattack
The popular U.K. soccer club confirmed an attack but said personal fan data remains secure.
Joe Biden Campaign Subdomain Down After Hacktivist Defacement
A Turkish hacktivist defaced a subdomain of the president-elect’s campaign website.
Google Services Weaponized to Bypass Security in Phishing, BEC Campaigns
Attackers exploiting an array of Google Services, including Forms, Firebase, Docs and more to boost phishing and BEC campaigns.
VMware Fixes Critical Flaw in ESXi Hypervisor
The critical and important-severity flaws were found by a team at the China-based Tiunfu Cup hacking challenge.
Good Heavens! 10M Impacted in Pray.com Data Exposure
The information exposed in a public cloud bucket included PII, church-donation information, photos and users’ contact lists.
New Grelos Skimmer Variants Siphon Credit Card Data
Domains related to the new variant of the Grelos web skimmer have compromised dozens of websites so far.
Facebook Messenger Bug Allows Spying on Android Users
The company patched a vulnerability that could connected video and audio calls without the knowledge of the person receiving them.
IT threat evolution Q3 2020. Non-mobile statistics
These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, in Q3: Kaspersky solutions blocked 1,416,295,227 attacks launched from online resources across the globe. 456,573,467 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components. Attempts to run malware…
IT threat evolution Q3 2020 Mobile statistics
The statistics presented here draw on detection verdicts returned by Kaspersky products and received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, the third quarter saw: 1,189 797 detected malicious installers, of which 39,051 packages were related to mobile banking trojans; 6063 packages proved to be mobile ransomware…
IT threat evolution Q3 2020
Targeted attacks MATA: Lazarus’s multi-platform targeted malware framework The more sophisticated threat actors are continually developing their TTPs (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures) and the toolsets they use to compromise the systems of their targets. However, malicious toolsets used to target multiple platforms are rare, because they required significant investment to develop and maintain them. In…