Aman Mishra reports: A formidable new strain of ransomware, dubbed Lyrix, has recently surfaced, posing a significant threat to Windows users worldwide. […] Lyrix ransomware stands out due to its ability to bypass traditional antivirus solutions by employing polymorphic code, which constantly mutates to avoid signature-based detection. Once infiltrated, the malware stealthily maps the target…
An analysis of HellCat and Morpheus ransomware operations has revealed that affiliates associated with the respective cybercrime entities are using identical code for their ransomware payloads. The findings come from SentinelOne, which analyzed artifacts uploaded to the VirusTotal malware scanning platform by the same submitter towards the end of December 2024. “These two payload samples…
Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, and Thailand have become the targets of a campaign that has infected Android TV devices with a botnet malware dubbed Vo1d. The improved variant of Vo1d has been found to encompass 800,000 daily active IP addresses, with the botnet scaling a peak of 1,590,299 on January 19, 2025, spanning 226…
A top White House official said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign. The post A 9th Telecoms Firm Has Been Hit by a Massive Chinese Espionage Campaign, the White House Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) held its seventh plenary meeting of 2025 and reached a decision to sanction Woori Card Co., Ltd. (Woori Card) for data breaches on March 26, 2025. Administrative sanctions by the PIPC are as follows: A penalty for violations (Gwajingguem) of KRW 13.45 billion; A publication order of sanction results…
After January’s deluge, a calmer update volume returns
Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability that could allow a bypass of the Secure Boot mechanism in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) systems. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-7344 (CVSS score: 6.7), resides in a UEFI application signed by Microsoft’s “Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011” third-party UEFI certificate, according to a new
