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Trojan

Qakbot

Emotet

Qakbot: An infamous Banking Trojan Family

Qakbot creates a specialized phishing e-mail that incorporates an Office document in the mail content...

22-Jun-2021

4 min read

Zero-Day

Google

Counterterrorism

Google took down the hacking attack as a counterterrorism operation in disguise

Western Government operatives found to be actively conducting a counterterrorism operation for the past nine months discovered by Google as a hacking attack...

28-Mar-2021

8 min read

Vulnerability

SHAREIt: Unpatched Vulnerability Targeting To Remote Code Execution

SHAREit the infamous peer-to-peer file transfer app, mostly familiar for leaking its user data and maliciously spying on them, was recently identified to be occupied with numerous patched vulnerabilities...

18-Feb-2021

11 min read

Cyberespionage

Winnti or Higaisa resurrected from APT41 Backdoor

Winnti' a cyberespionage group from the Chinese origins primarily identified for targeting software companies and political organisations worldwide, gained traction over a series of cyberattacks...

20-Jan-2021

15 min read

Solarwinds

Solarwinds Hack: Why it is not like any other cyberattack

Solarwinds, a SaaS-based firm known for their IT & Network management solutions, was spotted under the radar of a manual supply chain attack....

11-Jan-2021

4 min read

vulnerability

Zerologon

Zerologon vulnerability

Zerologon is the name that has been given to a vulnerability identified in CVE-2020-1472. It’s called zerologon due to the flaw in the logon process where the initialisation vector (IV) is set to all zeros all the time while an Initialisation Vector (IV) should always be a random number...

18-Nov-2020

7 min read

Cyberthreat

Malware

IAmTheKing and the SlothfulMedia malware family

DHS CISA agency published a Malware Analysis Report (MAR) on October 1, 2020 released information about a malware family called SlothfulMedia...

09-Nov-2020

9 min read

Ransomware

Security

EKANS

EKANS Ransomware

Dragos Platform regularly detects and responds to Major ransomware outbreaks within industrial environments and maintains a report related to the attack......

21-Aug-2020

3 min read