Hacks

Currently, the whole world is in lockdown due to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, but, for the cybercriminals, this is the most luring opportunity. And as a result, recently, the cyber attackers have targeted all the co-operative banks in India. Researchers uncovered a new campaign in which the attackers have used the renewed wave of the “ Adwind Java RAT ” to initiate the attacks against the co-operative banks in India. Don’t know about the co-operative banks? The co-operative banks are small banks that are small in size, and they generally don’t have any large trained IT and cybersecurity team to handle such types of cyberattacks. Just like the other popular COVID-19 themed cyber-attacks, this Java RAT campaign also starts its operation with a spear-phishing email. But, here, the difference is that the phishing emails that the attacker send to its victims, claims to be from the Reserve Bank of India or any other large banking institution in the country. According to the Qu...