Last week on Malwarebytes Labs:
- Stopransomware(dot)gov, a one-stop hub for ransomware resources
- Beware, crypto-scammer seeks foreigner with BLOCK CHAIN ACCOUNT
- Remcos RAT delivered via Visual Basic
- US, EU, UK, NATO blame China for “reckless” exchange attacks
- HiveNightmare zero-day lets anyone be SYSTEM on Windows 10 and 11
- ID theft ghouls targeting Surfside victims is appalling, but no surprise
- The life and death of the ZeuS Trojan
- Pegasus spyware has been here for years. We must stop ignoring it
- Millions of Windows machines affected by ancient printer vulnerability
- Five years for swatter who caused a man’s death for a Twitter handle
- Busted! Fraud as a service gang that sold 2FA-proof phishing arrested
- CNA legal filings lift curtain on a Phoenix cryptolocker ransomware attack
- Avoslocker enters the ransomware scene, asks for partners
Other cybersecurity news
- Pegasus spyware seller: blame our customers, not us, for hacking (Source: BBC)
- A favourite target of Russian hackers, the Olympics are on guard (Source: NBC)
- UK national suspected of hacking Twitter accounts of Joe Biden and Barack Obama is arrested in Southern Spain (Source: El Pais)
- Japan government says companies are being targeted by China-backed cyber hacking group (Source: Reuters)
- New Zealand, China clash over hacking claims (Source: VOA)
- Phishing attacks get smarter as targets struggle to keep up (Source: VentureBeat)
- Discord hosts “significant volumes of malware” in its CDN (Source: The Register)
- Hacker group threatening to sell 1TB of Saudi Aramco data to the highest bidder (Source: TIESS)
- 40 percent of individuals fell victim to a phishing attack in the past month (Source: Help Net Security)
- India and Vietnam rank on list as those most hit by Android malware (Source: Tech Wire Asia)
Stay safe, everyone!
