Portugal’s Armed Forces General Staff agency has suffered a malicious attack that allegedly enabled threat actors to steal classified NATO documents. Reports said these stolen documents are now circulating in dark web marketplaces. The affected entity realised they experienced a cyberattack after an attacker published samples of the stolen documents on underground marketplaces, selling the...Continue Reading
A cybercriminal activity conducted by the Predatory Sparrow group resulted in publicly disclosed documents of numerous Iranian steel industries. The cybersecurity breach occurred last month and has exposed the first wave of critical documents on its Twitter profile. Moreover, the malicious threat group deployed a cache of approximately 20GB worth of essential data. Researchers enumerated...Continue Reading
A new strategy implemented by ransomware groups could force their victims into paying the ransom demands and not leak their stolen data. From the reports about these latest findings, the threat groups have added a search feature on their dark web leak site that allows anyone to find the group’s victims or specific details related...Continue Reading
An Australia-based maximum-security prison, Port Phillip Prison, had been attacked by unidentified threat actors demanding a ransom to drop the institution’s servers from the security breach. The cyberattack on Port Phillip Prison had forced its operators to suspend visiting hours while they were undergoing an investigation. Located at Truganina, Victoria in Australia, the prison institution...Continue Reading
Threat actors have been attempting to force an act of virtual revenge using a worm dubbed NightLion against a cybersecurity firm called Night Lion Security after they published writing that revealed the secrets of several hacking gangs. The researchers attributed Night Lion Security to a cyberattack campaign against organisations because the firm’s name was used...Continue Reading
A spyware vendor, RCS Labs, had been reportedly aided by unidentified Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in spreading surveillance tools against Android and iOS users from Italy and Kazakhstan. Google’s Threat Analysis Group or TAG had tracked RCS Labs’ activities alongside 29 other spyware vendors. Based on the analysis of the attacks, the victims were instructed...Continue Reading
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) have published an advisory regarding a data breach of nearly half a million students from the educational institution, blaming the misactions of a third-party supplier which resulted in a ransomware attack. The ransomware campaign has impacted the Ohio-based non-profit organisation called Battle for Kids. This single school system experienced a data...Continue Reading
New studies show that the dark web is still filled with compromised victims’ data, reaching over 24 billion worth of usernames and passwords. These findings demonstrate a 65% uptick within two years, mostly due to users creating account passwords that hackers could easily crack. For instance, one in every 200 compromised passwords comprises the number...Continue Reading
The ALPHV ransomware group (also known as BlackCat) has devised a new method of threatening its targets. The group cleverly designed websites that let its victims’ employees and customers review if hackers stole their data during an attack. Most of the time, some threat groups will use the stolen data for double-extortion tactics, in which...Continue Reading
The Vice Society ransomware group has allegedly attacked Italy’s Palermo city, which caused a massive service outage across the entire district. The cyberespionage attack happened last week, and all internet-dependent services were unavailable, affecting approximately 1.3 million individuals, including tourists that visited the city. The law enforcement and concerned authorities assessed the situation’s criticality after...Continue Reading
