IT Sec News updates – Malware Attacks

SecurityWeek

KnowBe4 chief executive Stu Sjouwerman: “We sent them their Mac workstation, and the moment it was received, it immediately started to load malware.

Security Boulevard

Threat actors continually leverage and create a plethora of tactics to bypass Secure Email Gateways (SEGs). These include encoding malicious URLs …

CrowdStrike

Additional C2 URLs, listed in Table 1, were obtained from the malware's configuration. Lumma Stealer is a commodity information stealer that …

The Hacker News

Telegram fixes zero-day flaw that allowed malware disguised as videos. Hamster Kombat's popularity sparks malicious copycats.

WIRED

A secretive network of around 3,000 “ghost” accounts on GitHub has quietly been manipulating pages on the code-hosting website to promote malware and …

Help Net Security

Researchers have unearthed an extensive network of GitHub accounts that provides malware and phishing link Distribution-as-a-Service.

SC Magazine

Cybercriminals are stepping up efforts to bypass a critical component in Microsoft Defender in order to covertly install malware.

IoT World Today

Businesses urged to check for 'result.txt in %TMP%'—a potential sign of “Daolpu” malware infection.

Dark Reading

Instead of hosting malware on GitHub and then luring users to inadvertently download an infected code package (by getting them to click on a malicious …

Bleeping Computer

… targeting players with fake Android and Windows software that install spyware and information-stealing malware.