IBM’s cyber-security division says that hackers are targeting companies associated with the storage and transportation of COVID-19 vaccines using temperature-controlled environments — also known as the COVID-19 vaccine cold chain. From a report: The attacks consisted of spear-phishing emails seeking to collect credentials for a target’s internal email and applications. While IBM X-Force analysts weren’t able to link the attacks to…
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Unusual New ‘PureLocker’ Ransomware Is Going After Servers
Researchers at Intezer and IBM X-Force have detected an unconventional form of ransomware that’s being deployed in targeted attacks against enterprise servers. They’re calling it PureLocker because it’s written in the PureBasic programming language. ZDNet reports: It’s unusual for ransomware to be written in PureBasic, but it provides benefits to attackers because sometimes security vendors struggle to generate reliable detection signatures…
Hackers Looking Into Injecting Card Stealing Code on Routers, Rather Then Websites
Security researchers at IBM have found evidence that hackers have been working on creating malicious scripts they can deploy on commercial-grade “Layer 7” routers to steal payment card details. From a report: This discovery is a game-changer in what researchers call Magecart attacks, also known as web skimming. These are attacks where hackers plant malicious code on an online store that…