Hacks

Since the coronavirus became a worldwide health issue, the desire for more information and guidance from government and health authorities has reached a fever pitch. This is a  golden opportunity for threat actors  to capitalize on fear, spread misinformation, and generate mass hysteria—all while compromising victims with scams or malware campaigns. Profiting from global health concerns,  natural disasters , and other extreme weather events is nothing new for cybercriminals. Scams related to SARS,  H1N1 (swine flu) , and avian flu have circulated online for more than a decade. According to  reports from ZDnet , many state-sponsored threat actors have already started to distribute coronavirus lures, including: Chinese APTs: Vicious Panda, Mustang Panda North Korean APTs: Kimsuky Russian APTs: Hades group (believed to have ties with APT28), TA542 ( Emotet ) Other APTs: Sweed (Lokibot) Recently, the Red Drip team  reported  that APT36 ...

Cybercriminals will stop at nothing to exploit every chance to prey on internet users. Even the disastrous spread of SARS-COV-II (the virus), which causes COVID-19 (the disease), is becoming an opportunity for them to likewise spread malware or launch cyber attacks. Reason Cybersecurity recently released a  threat analysis report  detailing a new attack that takes advantage of internet users' increased craving for information about the novel coronavirus that is wreaking havoc worldwide. The malware attack specifically aims to target those who are looking for cartographic presentations of the spread of COVID-19 on the Internet, and trickes them to download and run a malicious application that, on its front-end, shows a map loaded from a legit online source but in the background compromises the computer. New Threat With An Old Malware Component The latest threat, designed to steal information from unwitting victims, was first  spotted  by MalwareHunterTeam l...