Category: February

Dutch police have released a statement saying that they have arrested three men for their alleged involvement with a ransomware gang that stole sensitive data and extorted hundreds of thousands of euros from thousands of companies. The three arrested are: According to the Amsterdam police cybercrime team, the investigation began […]

You may or may not have heard of the North Korean hacking group known as Lazarus Group. If you haven’t – you will most certainly have heard of some of their activities: Sony Hack? WannaCry? Bank of Bangladesh hack? The Lazarus group is a name given to a collective of […]

A new RAT (Remote Access Trojan) has come on the scene which communicates via SMTP – The Simple Message Transfer Protocol to avoid detection by security tools. SMTP is vital in any network if you want to send emails because this is the “push” protocol which all email systems use […]

In the past few years, a new, alternative to traditional passwords has started to be implemented by many services we use – most widely in banking. Rather than have to go through multiple security questions, many banks have implemented systems known as IVR – Instant Voice Response, more commonly known […]

US-based Cyber Security company BitSight have recently released a report about a botnet which is increasing its capability by over 50,000 newly infected devices every day. MyloBot has compromised thousands of systems, with most of them located in India, the U.S.A, Indonesia, and Iran. MyloBot history MyloBot was first discovered […]

The LockBit criminal gang has continued with its ransomware efforts with an attack on the water utility company of Portugal’s second-largest city – Porto. Águas e Energia do Porto said on February 8th it had been hit with a cyberattack, but its security team had been able to limit the […]

At the beginning of October last year, a number of websites under the control of the German government, including those of the office of the German Chancellor – Olaf Scholz, the German military, and the German Ministry of Defense were targeted in a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). The […]

At the beginning of February, an encrypted messaging service that had been under investigation since 2019 was been shut down after a sweeping series of raids across Europe. In a search of 79 properties in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and Poland, authorities arrested 48 people who were users, operators and […]

On Monday the 13th February, web infrastructure company Cloudflare disclosed that it had stopped a record-breaking DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS). This makes the attack the largest HTTP DDoS attack reported to date – more than 35% higher than the previous […]

If you’ve been following my blogs, you may have noticed that in a few of them, I mention that a particular threat actor, or malware is capable of RCE, and that it’s a hackers wet dream to be able to do so. So in this blog, I thought I’d cover […]