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Israel, Iraq, Egypt, Armenia, Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and the United Arab Emirates have been targeted by Iran state-sponsored threat group MuddyWater, also known as TEMP.Zagros, Boggy Serpens, Mercury, Earth Vetala, Cobalt Ulster, Seedworm, and Static Kitten, in its latest spear-phishing attacks, The Hacker News reports.

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Sophos discovered new stripped-down ransomware called Epsilon Red that offloads most of its functionality to a series of PowerShell scripts. It was delivered as the final executable payload in a hand-controlled attack against a US-based business in the hospitality industry in which every other early

Global security vendor Sophos claims to have discovered a new strain of Windows ransomware which is the final executable payload in a manual attack wh...

By Eduard Kovacs on May 31, 2021 A new piece of ransomware named Epsilon Red has been used to target at least one organization in the United States, and its operators have apparently already made a significant profit. Cybersecurity firm Sophos reported last week that Epsilon Red operators have been spotted targeting a US-based company in the hospitality sector. The cryptocurrency address provided by the cybercriminals shows a bitcoin transaction for an amount worth roughly $210,000, which seem...

Sophos: How timely intervention stopped a ProxyLogon attack A recent incident at an undisclosed customer sheds new light on how malicious actors exploit unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers Share this item with your network: By Published: 05 May 2021 14:00 Cyber security researchers at Sophos have been sharing details of how they were able to cut off an ongoing cyber attack on one of their customers, which exploited the dangerous ProxyLogon vulnerabilities in on-premise instances of Micros...

Iran cyberespionage campaigns targets (Source: Trend Micro) Hackers with suspected ties to Iran are continuing to wage a cyberespionage campaign against government agencies, academia and tourism organizations in the Middle East and nearby, according to a report by Trend Micro. The spear-phishing campaign, dubbed Earth Vetala, which is designed to steal data, exploits remote admin tools such as ScreenConnect and Remote Utilities that allow system administrators to remotely manage their enterpri...