Silobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 21 April 2016
FIN6 GroupA FireEye/iSIGHT investigation has reported on FIN6 [1], a hacker group conducting major attacks on point of sale (POS) systems.FIN6 has been active since 2015, and has targeted the...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 22 April 2016
Hackers push COMELEC search engineOne or more hackers have created a search engine for COMELEC [1] data stolen by Lulzsec Philipinas [2]. Wehaveyourdata.com was registered to host the personal details...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 25 April 016
Nuclear's infrastructureSecurity researchers at Talos and Check Point have exposed the inner workings of the Nuclear exploit kit's [1] infrastructure.Nuclear is one of the most popular exploit kits...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 26 April 2016
GozNym targets EU banksA strain of the GozNym trojan [1] targeting European banks has been discovered by IBM's X-force [2]. GozNym is a hybrid of the Nymaim [3] and Gozi ISFB [4] malware, inheriting...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 27 April 2016
Pirate Bay compromised by MagnitudeThe Magnitude exploit kit [1] has been distributing ransomware on the Pirate Bay torrenting site.Cerber [2] was being served by Magnitude using pop-unders that...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 28 April 2016
Waze traffic app allows user trackingResearchers [1] in Santa Barbara have discovered that the popular Waze [2] GPS app is vulnerable to MitM attacks, making it possible to track users.Waze allows...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 29 April 2016
Dynamer malware turns on God ModeA malware strain called Dynamer [1] has taken advantage of a Windows easter egg known as God Mode to improve its persistence, McAfee reports [2].The God Mode string...
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In a positive step for the cyber insurance industry, Beazley and Munich Re have upped [1] their maximum cover from $50 to $100 million, a move that speaks of increasing confidence in a sector that’s...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 3 May 2016
US Water/Power company hit by ransomwareThe Lansing Board of Water and Light [1] (BWL) was crippled by an unnamed ransomware that encrypted files on corporate servers. BWL is the public supplier of...
View ArticleMonthly Cyber Summary – April 2016
Our Monthly Cyber Summary reports a selection of the top trending stories in cyber security from the last calendar month. Keep up to date with some of the most prominent and emerging malware, hacker...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 4 May 2016
Lizard Squad threaten UK businessesA group purporting to be Lizard Squad [1] has sent numerous threats to businesses in the UK, demanding up to 5 bitcoins in exchange for not launching DDoS attacks...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 5 May 2016
CryptMix RansomwareA new ransomware variant that combines components of other families, including CryptoWall and CryptXXX, has been discovered by Heimdal Security [1] and MalwareHunterTeam.CryptMix [2]...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 6 May 2016
First PLC worm createdResearchers have created the first proof-of-concept programmable logic controller (PLC) worm, which exists and spreads entirely through PLCs, rather than requiring a PC in the...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 9 May 2016
Bucbi ransomwareThe Bucbi ransomware [1] has received an update and is back in the wild, possibly thanks to a Ukrainian group known as Right Sector [2].Bucbi had not been seen since the early months of...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 10 May 2016
Viking Horde malware Check Point [1] has discovered a new Android malware on the Google Play store that it has named Viking Horde [2] after one of the games it uses to disguise itself (called 'Viking...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 11 May 2016
Bozkurt group leaks more bank dataThe Bozkurt [1] hacking group have leaked data from five South Asian banks in addition to the previously mentioned Qatar National Bank and UAE’s InvestBank.The banks...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 12 May 2016
7ev3n and CryptXXX updatedMalware authors have updated the 7ev3n [1] and CryptXXX [2] ransomware families. The former, now known as 7ev3n-Hone$t, is easier to use for users and victims alike and has a...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 13 May 2016
Unnamed new POS threat actorFireEye has reported on a threat actor using a recently patched elevation of privilege exploit (CVE-2016-0167) to compromise over 100 North American organisations and steal...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 16 May 2016
German intelligence accuses Russia of CDU hackThe head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) has claimed that Russia is behind several recent network-based attacks on the state’s computer...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 17 May 2016
New version of CryptXXX now harmless [1]We use words to save the world | Kaspersky Lab Official Blog - May 13 2016 14:18The newest iteration of the CryptXXX [2] ransomware has been broken by Kaspersky....
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