Malware

SecurityWeek reports that the Black Basta ransomware gang, which has been associated with Russian cybercrime operation FIN7, has admitted to being behind the cyberattack against major Canadian meat and poultry food producer Maple Leaf Foods that resulted in operational disruptions in early November.

Bad actors are taking advantage of a popular TikTok challenge in an attempt to trick users into downloading malware, according to new research from security firm Checkmarx.

BleepingComputer reports that threat actors have been exploiting the trending 'Invisible Challenge' in TikTok to facilitate the distribution of the WASP Stealer malware, which could enable the theft of Discord accounts, cryptocurrency wallets, and computer files, as well as browser-stored passwords, credit cards.

The Hacker News reports that threat actors have been spreading the SharkBot banking trojan through fraudulent file manager apps on the Google Play Store in an effort to evade security restrictions of the app marketplace.

Cyberespionage operation Bahamut has leveraged fake VPN apps in a malicious campaign targeted at exfiltrating sensitive data from Android devices, according to The Hacker News.

Numerous Ukrainian organizations have been compromised by a wave of attacks using the novel .NET-based RansomBoggs ransomware strain, which resembled prior attacks by the Russian state-sponsored threat operation Sandworm, reports The Hacker News.