The feds are warning that the North Korean APT group known as Hidden Cobra is mounting active attacks on U.S. businesses (and others globally), including organizations in the media, aerospace, financial and critical infrastructure sectors. According to a United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) bulletin released Tuesday, the state-sponsored group is using two families […]
Two Canadian banks have reported that they may be targets of a hack, after bad actors claimed that they electronically accessed personal and account information. On Monday, both Bank of Montreal and Simplii Financial (the banking subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) announced that “fraudsters” contacted them over the weekend claiming they had accessed […]
Researchers have discovered a banking trojan making waves in Brazil with an array of tricks up its sleeve, including using an unusual command and control (C&C) server and a full-screen social-engineering overlay form. Researchers at IBM X-Force research on Tuesday revealed that attackers are using the malware – dubbed MnuBot –mainly in Brazil to perform […]
Virtual machines that use AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), a hardware-based encryption scheme, have been found to be vulnerable to attacks that can extract the full contents of their main memory – in plaintext. SEV is a feature specifically designed for securely encrypting VMs, developed to protect VM memory from remote and physical attackers. It […]
