Malware

Google announced Tuesday that it coordinated with industry partners to disrupt a botnet made up of a million infected devices, as well as suing its operators, which are believed to be based in Russia.

Last month, more than 900 participants from over 240 financial firms, central banks, regulators, law enforcement and information-sharing groups acted out their response and recovery plans based on a series of simulated ransomware attacks.

BIO-ISAC disclosed an aggressive APT campaign rapidly spreading in the biomanufacturing sector. HHS is urging healthcare and related sectors to review research into the malware’s stealthy tactics.

Experts predict that future ransomware attacks could be more localized, more aggressive and used for cyber espionage or terrorism purposes.

More than 9 million Android devices have downloaded and installed dozens of games from the Huawei AppGallery that have a trojan designed to collect information, according to analysts.

The vast majority of cybersecurity professionals, 9 out of 10, are “concerned” about attacks on weekends and holidays, according to a new report by Cybereason.

Researchers say new malicious Linux agent takes its commands from a control server in Beijing.

Lionel Sigal, head of the CTI division at CYE, details a recent C2 malware campaign in which Nobelium actors sought to compromise targets by first spying on their supply chain partners.