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SolarWinds, a provider of IT management and monitoring software deployed by thousands of global customers, was breached between March and June of 2020 by an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) that cybersecurity company FireEye is tracking as UNC2452. As part of the supply chain attack, the APT compromised the company’s Orion…
Several years back, industry analyst firm Gartner began circulating the idea that almost every major enterprise and government agency was either compromised or would be compromised at some point in time. This week, when we woke up to the news that FireEye and SolarWinds had joined the ranks of the hacked, we learned once again…
Anomali Labs published this week a report, “Cyber Crime in the Payments Industry,” that examines threat trends affecting this sector. The report, available for download, details attacks and techniques, and provides recommendations for organizations that process credit card transactions.The payments industry, including…
Anomali Labs in its continued hunt for the destructive Shamoon malware, has identified a new Shamoon malware sample that uses an image of a burning US Dollar as part of its destructive attack. Historic versions of the Shamoon destructive wiper have utilized images of a burning American flag and the drowned Syrian refugee and child…
OverviewAs the weather grows colder and holiday shopping seasons encroaches, so too, increases the opportunities for data and monetary theft for a threat actor. Every year it seems as if companies are moving their “deals” earlier and earlier than the well-known Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping days, as well as…
A new version of destructive wiper malware Shamoon was first identified by security researchers on December 5, 2018. This malware dubbed Shamoon V3, appears to be a new version of the destructive malware, which has historically been associated with advanced persistent threat actors aligned with the interests of the Iranian state.…
OverviewCyber threat researchers from Anomali Labs have discovered a new malware, called “Linux Rabbit,” that targeted Linux servers and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices in a campaign that began in August 2018 and continued until October 2018. The campaign targeted devices in Russia, South Korea, the UK, and the US.…
The NotPetya cyber-attack occurred a little over a month after WannaCry, targeting Ukrainian organisations. The attack was initiated utilising a corrupted update for an accounting and tax software that was almost exclusively used throughout every organisation, private and public, in the country. The malware employed the same SMB…
The cyber-attack known as WannaCry first broke out in May of 2017 and was unprecedented in its scope and impact. It utilized a Microsoft Windows vulnerability that was leaked by a cyber threat group, the Shadow Brokers, and despite Microsoft releasing a patch for the vulnerability, many organizations failed to apply the patch and…
Have you ever heard the phrase “put up your dukes” and wondered how on Earth that could equate to putting up your fists for a fight? You wouldn’t be alone in wondering. Etymologists studying this phrase have concluded that this expression, like many others that are seemingly inexplicable, likely came from rhyming…
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