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Microsoft Alerts on New RAT Loader Malware May 14, 2021 11:28 GMT   ·  Comment      Snip3 Malware Microsoft emitted an alert regarding a Remote Access Tool (RAT) dubbed RevengeRAT. The malware has been used to send out spear-phishing emails targeting aerospace and travel industries.  RevengeRAT, also known as AsyncRAT, is distributed by carefully crafted email messages that instruct recipients to open a file that looks like an Adobe PDF attachment but actually installs a malicious visual basic (VB) file. Morphisec, a cybersecurity organization, recently identified the two malw...

Android Malware Poses as Android Security Scanners on Google Play Store

Israel targeted by Hezbollah hacker group, remained unnoticed for 5 years News Highlights: Israel targeted by Hezbollah hacker group, remained unnoticed for 5 years. Over the past decade, companies in the US, UK, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestinian Authority have been targeted by a hacker group called Lebanese Cedar, also known as Volatile Cedar, which appears to be linked to Hezbollah, ClearSky Cyber Security The group has been active since 2012, but has had a low profile since 2015. The Lebanese Cedar hacker group appears to have successfully gone unnoticed by the security com...

From an information security perspective, 2020 was a complicated year. Not only did the pandemic affect the threat landscape, but double extortion ransomware attacks have become the new normal. To top the year off, in December the massive supply-chain campaigns were discovered, whose real extent is not yet clear. An additional thing of note from last year is the emergence of the weaponization of cloud services by state-sponsored groups. Exploiting the cloud for criminal purposes such as phishing and malware delivery (the Ryuk ransomware is probably the most noteworthy) is now a consolidated t...