Richard Connor with dpa reports: Intelligence officials in Germany on Tuesday said they were probing a suspected Russian online attack on the German Association for East European Studies (DGO). The research group, specializing in foreign policy and international relations, is among several operating in Germany that Moscow has deemed “undesirable.” What the intelligence agencies said Both Germany’s…
SC Media reports: Oregon-based third-party retirement plan administrator Carruth Compliance Consulting had information from more than 40,000 public school teachers and employees in California, Illinois, New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania exfiltrated following a December attack by the newly emergent Skira Team hacking group, which purported the theft of data from 36 public schools across the…
Cheap Android smartphones manufactured by Chinese companies have been observed pre-installed with trojanized apps masquerading as WhatsApp and Telegram that contain cryptocurrency clipper functionality as part of a campaign since June 2024. While using malware-laced apps to steal financial information is not a new phenomenon, the new findings from Russian antivirus vendor Doctor Web point…
The developers of Rspack have revealed that two of their npm packages, @rspack/core and @rspack/cli, were compromised in a software supply chain attack that allowed a malicious actor to publish malicious versions to the official package registry with cryptocurrency mining malware. Following the discovery, versions 1.1.7 of both libraries have been unpublished from the npm…
NCC Group saw over 570 ransomware attacks in December 2024, the highest number since it started monitoring them in 2021. The post Record Number of Ransomware Attacks in December 2024 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Chinese state-sponsored threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been observed employing a novel technique to evade detection and maintain control over infected systems. This involves the use of a legitimate Microsoft Windows utility called Microsoft Application Virtualization Injector (MAVInject.exe) to inject the threat actor’s malicious payload into an external process, waitfor.exe,
Social media security startup Spikerz has raised $7 million in a seed funding round led by Disruptive AI. The post Social Media Security Firm Spikerz Raises $7 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.
