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Organizations in the gaming and gambling industries have been subjected to new Ice Breaker attacks leveraging social engineering for JavaScript backdoor deployment since September, according to The Hacker News.

Devious backdoor could be hiding in the screenshot your customer sends looking for help.

Hackers are using a new version of the Raspberry Robin worm to target Spanish and Portuguese financial and insurance institutions.

The Evil Corp-linked malware family has undergone an evolution, becoming more obfuscated and "several times more complex," as the group behind it tests how far the worm can be spread.

Hackers continue to exploit the Log4j vulnerability in vulnerable applications, as shown by the Iranian MuddyWater threat actor who was found targeting Israeli organizations using the SysAid software.

Israeli cyber experts are monitoring Russian-Ukrainian cyberwar - and Israel’s defensive expertise is in high demand: ‘We’ve been getting requests for help from banks and big orgs across Europe’

Get email notification for articles from Omer Benjakob Follow May. 5, 2021 8:37 PM A long-term sophisticated group of cybercriminals popularly known as ‘Cuba Ransomware’ is likely Russian, say Israeli researchers. An investigation by Israeli cybersecurity firms Profero and Security Joes into attacks by Cuba, which mounts “ransom” attacks against commercial clients, found a number of telltale signs about the hackers’ origin. In a report published on Wednesday, the firms show that a ty...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The hackers managed to breach Shirbit’s computer network and steal large amounts of data from the company’s servers. They got their hands on employee pay slips, claims filed by customers – including insurance appraisers’ reports and hospital records, for example – as well as a large number of customer I.D. documents. The hackers demanded money from the company, but despite the attacks seemingly financial motivations, cybersecuri...

BICOM 21st December 2020 BBC News reports on the massive seizure of the drug Captagon, an amphetamine, in Italy which revealed the scale of illegal drug production in Syria. The drug is used recreationally across the Middle East and is also taken by fighters who say it gives them ‘a feeling of invincibility on the frontlines.’ The report notes that this ‘is the largest haul ever seized, with a street value of more than $1bn (£900m) and was follo...

The Saudi-led coalition has cleared four fuel ships to dock at Yemens Red Sea port of Hodeidah, two sources familiar... Earlier this month, a major cyber attack hit dozens of Israeli logistics companies, with hackers making off with information from servers. In November, Israeli cyber security firm Check Point revealed that Iranian hackers were behind a Pay2Key ransomware attack on dozens of Israeli companies. The hackers demanded payment of seven to nine bitcoins, worth some NIS 375,000-475,00...