NPM package poses as legit Ethereum smart contract, injects Quasar RAT
A malicious npm package has been posing as a tool for detecting bugs in Ethereum smart contracts, but instead deploys…
Category: Ransomware
Ransomware 2024: A year of tricks, traps, wins and losses
Ransomware criminals in 2024 stooped to new lows and high-level black hat trade craft. Targets included critical industries such as…
Post-ALPHV, LockBit takedown surge of RansomHub examined
Hundreds of organizations — including Rite Aid, Frontier Communications, Christie’s, and Planned Parenthood of Montana — have already been compromised…
Italian websites subjected to pro-Russian DDoS attack campaign
Security Affairs reports that numerous Italian websites — including those of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Turin Transport Group,…
Phishing attack compromises General Dynamics employees
Major U.S. aerospace and defense firm General Dynamics has confirmed having dozens of employee benefits accounts breached following a phishing…
Toll of American Addiction Centers hack surpasses 422K
Tennessee-based substance abuse treatment service provider American Addiction Centers had information from 422,424 individuals exfiltrated during a breach of its…
Almost 18K impacted by Texas university breach
Texas-based McMurry University had data from almost 18,000 individuals compromised as a result of a June data breach, Cybernews reports. Investigation into…
5.6 million patients affected by Ascension Health cyberattack
Ascension Health on Dec. 19 started sending out letters to the 5.6 million patients who were affected by a ransomware…
Novel FlowerStorm PhaaS gains traction after Rockstar2FA disruption
Malicious activity involving the new FlowerStorm phishing-as-a-service platform aimed at Microsoft 365 credentials has escalated following a technical issue that…
Supply chain attack compromises rspack, Vant packages with XMRig cryptominer
BleepingComputer reports that high-performance JavaScript bundler Rspack and customizable Vue.js UI library Vant had a trio of widely-used npm packages…