Beyond the kill chain: What cybercriminals do with their money (Part 5)
In the last of our five-part series, Sophos X-Ops explores the implications and opportunities arising from threat actors’ involvement in real-world industries and crimes
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malvertising campaign that’s designed to infect victims with a multi-stage malware framework called PS1Bot. “PS1Bot features a modular design, with several modules delivered used to perform a variety of malicious activities on infected systems, including information theft, keylogging, reconnaissance, and the establishment of persistent system
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Ransomware has become a highly coordinated and pervasive threat, and traditional defenses are increasingly struggling to neutralize it. Today’s ransomware attacks initially target your last line of defense — your backup infrastructure. Before locking up your production environment, cybercriminals go after your backups to cripple your ability to recover, increasing the odds of a ransom…
SuspectFile reports: The healthcare sector continues to be a prime target for cybercriminal groups, with targeted attacks putting patient safety and medical information confidentiality at risk. The recent attack on Heart Centre, a network of cardiology clinics located in New South Wales, Australia, carried out by the DragonForce group, once again highlights the vulnerability of hospital IT…
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Hungarian police have arrested a man suspected of carrying out a prolonged series of cyberattacks against independent media outlets in Hungary and abroad, authorities said on Monday. The 23-year-old suspect from Budapest is accused of launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that disrupted access to at least half a dozen Hungarian news sites beginning in…
Lydia Veljanovski and Sean Rayment report: Russian hackers have stolen hundreds of sensitive military documents containing details of eight RAF and Royal Navy bases as well as Ministry of Defence staff names and emails – and posted them on the dark web, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In what has been described as a ‘catastrophic’ security……