Financial organizations in French-speaking African countries are being subjected to attacks by the Bluebottle cybercrime operation, which has been leveraging living-off-the-land attacks and generic malware, reports SiliconAngle.
Colombia- and Ecuador-based organizations are being targeted by the Spanish-speaking threat group Blind Eagle, also known as APT-C-36, which has reemerged with a strengthened toolset and infection chain, The Hacker News reports.
Rackspace has disclosed that some of its customers' Personal Storage Table files with emails, contacts, tasks, and calendar data, have been accessed by the Play ransomware operation during its attack on the multicloud MSP firm's Hosted Exchange email environment last month, according to BleepingComputer.
A new variation of spyware that targets Android devices has been observed by researchers since October specifically targeting banking applications and impersonating applications from several large reputable financial institutions.
The looming deadline for Microsoft to stop supporting Windows 8 presents some serious issues for many small businesses, government agencies, and medical facilities, experts told SC Media.
Cybersecurity vendor Fortinet informed users of a new high-severity vulnerability in its FortiADC web interface that could allow threat actors to perform arbitrary code execution, SecurityWeek reports.
Qualcomm on Tuesday disclosed nearly two dozen security vulnerabilities in its chipsets, including the company’s flagship suite of SnapDragon processor chips and affecting products that range from cars to powerline communications.
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