February 2022

Conti Ransomware’s Internal Chats Leaked After Siding With Russia A Ukrainian security researcher has leaked over 60,000 internal messages belonging to the Conti ransomware operation after the gang sided with Russia over the invasion of Ukraine. BleepingComputer has independently confirmed the validity of these messages from internal conversations previously shared with Read more…

2022 may be the Year Cybercrime Returns its Focus to Consumers Threat analysts expect 2022 to be the tipping point for a shift in the focus of hackers from large companies back to consumers. This prediction is the result of several factors that make consumers a lot more lucrative to Read more…

Ukraine Recruits “IT Army” to Hack Russian Entities, Lists 31 Targets Ukraine is recruiting a volunteer “IT army” of security researchers and hackers to conduct cyberattacks on thirty-one Russian entities, including government agencies, critical infrastructure, and banks. Saturday afternoon, Ukraine’s Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhaylo Fedorov announced that they need Read more…

TrickBot Malware Operation Shuts Down, Devs Move to BazarBackdoor The TrickBot malware operation has shut down after its core developers move to the Conti ransomware gang to focus development on the stealthy BazarBackdoor and Anchor malware families. TrickBot is a notorious Windows malware infection that has dominated the threat landscape Read more…

GPU Giant Nvidia is Investigating a Potential Cyberattack US chipmaker giant Nvidia confirmed today it’s currently investigating an “incident” that reportedly took down some of its systems for two days. Systems impacted in what looks like a cyberattack include the company’s developer tools and email systems, as first reported by The Telegraph. Read more…

Ransomware Gangs, Hackers Pick Sides Over Russia Invading Ukraine Hacker crews are picking sides as the Russian invasion into Ukraine continues, issuing bans and threats for supporters of the opposite side. This week, an administrator of the database sharing and marketplace Raidforums announced that it would close its door on Read more…

NHS Urges Orgs to Apply Security Update for Okta Client RCE Bug The UK’s NHS Digital agency is warning organizations to apply new security updates for a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows client for the Okta Advanced Server Access authentication management platform. “NHS Digital is the national digital, Read more…

Visual Voice Mail on Android may be Vulnerable to Eavesdropping A security analyst has devised a way to capture Visual Voice Mail (VVM) credentials on Android devices and then remotely listen to voicemail messages without the victim’s knowledge. The security researcher, Chris Talbot, discovered the flaw on June 21, 2021, and Read more…