Malware

Ukrainian organizations are being besieged with cyberattacks from threat actors sympathetic to Russia amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, reports Ars Technica.

Macs are being compromised with the new CloudMensis spyware that leverages public cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Yandex Disk, and pCloud for attack command receipt and file exfiltration, The Hacker News reports.

Just weeks after warning healthcare entities of ongoing targeting by North Korean nation-state actors using the Maui ransomware, the DoJ and the FBI disrupted operations and seized $500,000 in ransom demands.

Mutare’s survey finds that 38% of organizations say they don’t even collect data on the amount of unwanted voice traffic that hits the network.

SecurityWeek reports that software updates have been unveiled by numerous software vendors to remediate the new speculative execution attack dubbed "Retbleed" aimed at return trampolines implemented for Spectre side-channel attack mitigation.

Cybersecurity researchers at SEKOIA found that the Roaming Mantis malware campaign is now targeting iOS and Android users in France after attacking users in the U.S., Germany, the U.K., Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, according to BleepingComputer.

Eight applications infected with a new variant of the Joker spyware, which have already garnered over 3 million downloads combined, have been removed by Google from the Google Play store, Threatpost reports.