Emerging Threats

New Mac malware from North Korea targets crypto businesses (Header image)
A new attack that carries all the trademarks of a wider, evolving crypto-targeting North Korean campaign has been recently uncovered.  SentinelOne, the first to report this new threat, said they have “high confidence”...
Nov 15, 2024
5 min read
New version of LightSpy is even better at spying on iPhones: Header image
LightSpy, a piece of spyware malware that gained its reputation in 2020 for breaking into iPhones, is back. Researchers who have been following the C2 servers of LightSpy’s alleged developers have found that...
Nov 7, 2024
6 min read
Meta ads posing as Adobe and Canva are spreading SYS01 stealer (Header image)
BitDefender has uncovered a threat group using malvertising to distribute an information stealer known as SYS01. This development follows a trend that is becoming more popular every day among cybercriminals. BitDefender uncovers a new...
Oct 31, 2024
7 min read
New macOS vulnerability could let hackers access your browser data and camera (Header image)
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability and exploitation in macOS, Safari, and Apple’s TCC framework. While Apple has already patched the vulnerability, understanding how the exploitation works is useful for users...
Oct 25, 2024
5 min read
Fake Google Meet errors trick users into downloading stealers: Header image
A new social engineering tactic, first identified in May of this year, is gaining popularity among cybercriminals. Dubbed ClickFix by Proofpoint, this tactic is extremely efficient at convincing potential victims to install malware...
Oct 24, 2024
5 min read
Gorilla botnet launched 300K DDoS attacks on banks, governments, and more: Header image
It’s only been months since the FBI and its international partners shut down the 911 S5 botnet monster that controlled over 600,000 IPs. Now, a new player is aiming to take the global...
Oct 11, 2024
5 min read
Fake trading apps lure iOS and Android users into "pig butchering" scams (Header image)
A new investigation has uncovered a complex digital infrastructure used to run “pig butchering” scams across Asia and Europe, as well as possibly America. Due to the one-to-one nature of pig butchering scams,...
Oct 10, 2024
7 min read
FIN7 is spreading malware via deepfake nude generator sites (Header image)
FIN7, a Russian-linked cybercriminal organization active since 2013, has reemerged with new global capabilities. The group, like other cyber gangs, is leveraging the popularity of generative AI to lure victims. FIN7 threat group...
Oct 7, 2024
6 min read
Huge cybercriminal group targets gamers and crypto influencers: Header image
A new cybercriminal group, Marco Polo, which has been operating since at least 2018, has been uncovered by security researchers. The oddity of this group is its sheer size, organization, and infrastructure. In fact,...
Sep 25, 2024
6 min read
New macOS malware HZ RAT lets attackers control Macs remotely: Header image
A remote access trojan (RAT) targeting Windows devices since at least 2020 has been updated and modified to go after Mac users.  Remote access trojans present themselves to victims as legitimate downloads. Once...
Sep 13, 2024
4 min read