Bradley Barth reports: A malicious actor known as Shiny Hunters has emerged as a serious dark web player following a spate of high-profile breaches, and now the hacker or hackers is claiming to have stolen data from Microsoft’s private GitHub repositories and is threatening to release the code for free. According to researchers from ZeroFOX Alpha Team,…
Cognizant expects to lose between $50m and $70m following ransomware attack
Catalin Cimpanu reports: IT services provider Cognizant said in an earnings call this week that a ransomware incident that took place last month in April 2020 will negatively impact its Q2 revenue. “While we anticipate that the revenue impact related to this issue will be largely resolved by the middle of the quarter, we do…
REvil attackers claim to have obtained megastars’ legal files from NY entertainment law firm
James Ashley reports: The personal authorized affairs of dozens of the world’s largest music and movie stars — Girl Gaga, Elton John, Robert DeNiro, and Madonna amongst them — are in danger of publicity following a ransomware assault on a excessive profile New York leisure legislation agency. Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks have reportedly been…
Russian Hackers Accessed Emails From Merkel’s Constituency Office: Der Spiegel
Reuters reports: Russia’s GRU military intelligence service appears to have got hold of many emails from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s constituency office in a 2015 hack attack on Germany’s parliament, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, without citing its sources. Read more on Reuters.
APT Groups Target Healthcare and Essential Services
May 6, 2020 APT Groups Target Healthcare and Essential Services National Cyber Awareness System: AA20-126A: APT Groups Target Healthcare and Essential Services Original release date: May 5, 2020 Summary This is a joint alert from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber…
How hackers are updating the EVILNUM malware to target the global financial sector
Shannon Vavra reports: Hackers behind a series of targeted financial attacks have been updating their malware to better evade detection over the last year, according to new Prevailion research slated to be published Wednesday. Since at least February 2019, the hackers, who have begun impersonating CEOs and banks in their lure documents, have introduced at…