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Beware: New ‘RustBucket’ Malware Variant Targeting macOS Users

01

Jul

2023

Researchers have pulled back the curtain on an updated version of an Apple macOS malware called RustBucket that comes with improved capabilities to establish persistence and avoid detection by security software. “This variant of RustBucket, a malware family that targets macOS systems, adds persistence capabilities not previously observed,” Elastic Security Labs researchers said in a […]

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North Korean Hacker Group Andariel Strikes with New EarlyRat Malware

29

Jun

2023

The North Korea-aligned threat actor known as Andariel leveraged a previously undocumented malware called EarlyRat in phishing attacks, adding another piece to the group’s wide-ranging toolset. “Andariel infects machines by executing a Log4j exploit, which, in turn, downloads further malware from the command-and-control (C2) server,” Kaspersky said in a new report. Also called Silent Chollima […]

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LockBit Ransomware Extorts $91 Million from U.S. Companies

15

Jun

2023

The threat actors behind the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme have extorted $91 million following hundreds of attacks against numerous U.S. organizations since 2020. That’s according to a joint bulletin published by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and other […]

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Beware: New ‘RustBucket’ Malware Variant Targeting macOS Users

North Korean Hacker Group Andariel Strikes with New EarlyRat Malware

LockBit Ransomware Extorts $91 Million from U.S. Companies

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