Android malware FluBot had its infrastructure taken down following an international law enforcement operation that included authorities from the U.S. and 10 other countries, The Hacker News reports.
Since reemerging in late 2021, threat actors behind Emotet are now using Cobalt Strike in their attacks, while they work to rebuild its botnet (taken down by the government in January 2021).
U.S. financial institutions are the most frequently targeted by banking trojan attacks with 121 mobile financial applications representing more than 286 million downloads having been attacked by bad actors last year, according to Zimperium’s zLabs.
Finally, in the Enterprise Security News, Funding is back, in preparation for RSA! Devo raises $100M and becomes our 56th unicorn, JupiterOne raises $70M and becomes our 57th unicorn! Open source projects get some security funding, 10 more funding announcements, Mimecast has been taken private and is now delisted from the NASDAQ, ReliaQuest acquire...
Web applications have a new and dangerous security gap which requires attention: client-side security. The code and content that a web application delivers into a web browser is a ripe attack surface and requires different consideration, tools, and knowledge than required by traditional web application security. This segment will explore what clien...
Threat actors have updated the XLoader botnet malware to leverage the probability theory in an effort to better conceal its command-and-control servers without the need to change infrastructure.
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