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As fake updates target victims, Kaseya allegedly knew of exploited vulnerability in April SHARE Users of software from Kaseya Ltd. are being targeted with fake updates following an attack by the REvil ransomware group, as it was revealed today that the company was allegedly informed of a vulnerability exploited in a ransomware attack by REvil in April. Detected by researchers at Malwarebytes Labs, the campaign targets potential victims with spam that pushes Cobalt Strike payloads disguised as Kaseya VSA security updates. Cobalt Strike is penetration testing software ...

The retirement notice posted this week by Babuk on its darknet website The Babuk ransomware gang says it will no longer launch attacks but instead will make its malware source code available for other attackers to use. Babuk, which took credit for the ransomware attack that targeted the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department this week, says in a notice posted on its darknet website: "The babuk project will be closed, its source code will be made publicly available, we will do something like Open Source RaaS, everyone can make their own product based on our product." The ransomware g...

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EFF worries that the Google’s ‘privacy-first” vision for the future may pose new privacy risks. This month Google begins a public test of a technology it says will eventually replace browser cookies in an effort to boost Chrome browser user privacy. However, critics say the switch is a half-measure and does not protect the web movements of Chrome users adequately. The Google solution–called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC)—is promoted as a way to put people’s privacy first by limiting the capability of third parties to track their activity across the web using Cookies. How Do...

A primer on the proliferation of offensive cyber capabilities Issue Brief by Winnona DeSombre, Michele Campobasso, Dr. Luca Allodi, Dr. James Shires, JD Work, Robert Morgus, Patrick Howell O’Neill, and Dr. Trey Herr Executive summary Offensive cyber capabilities run the gamut from sophisticated, long-term disruptions of physical infrastructure to malware used to target human rights journalists. As these capabilities continue to proliferate with increasing complexity and to new types of actors, the im...