Alert: ESXiArgs Ransomware Hits Over 500 New Targets in European Countries

The Hacker News Daily Updates Understanding Cyber Insurance Identity Security Requirements for 2023 Gain a comprehensive understanding of cyber insurance protection. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Feb 16, 2023 Breaking the Security "Black Box" in DBs, Data Warehouses and Data Lakes Security teams typically have great visibility over most areas, for example, the corporate network, endpoints, servers, and cloud infrastructure. They use this visibility to enforce the necessary security and compliance requirements. However, this is not the case when it comes to sensitive data sitting in production or analytic databases, data warehouses or data lakes. Security teams have ... Read More New Threat Actor WIP26 Targeting Telecom Service Providers in the Middle East Telecommunication service providers in the Middle East are being targeted by a previously undocumented threat actor as part of a suspected espionage-related campaign. Cybersecurity firms SentinelOne and QGroup are tracking the activity cluster under the former's work-in-progress moniker WIP26. "WIP26 relies heavily on public cloud infrastructure in an attempt to evade detection by ... Read More Uptycs Webinar: Advantages of Anomaly Detection Learn how anomaly detections outperform traditional methods with expert Craig Chamberlain. >> Read More ESXiArgs Ransomware Hits Over 500 New Targets in European Countries More than 500 hosts have been newly compromised en masse by the ESXiArgs ransomware strain, most of which are located in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K., and Ukraine. The findings come from attack surface management firm Censys, which discovered "two hosts with strikingly similar ransom notes dating back to mid-October 2022, just after ESXi versions 6.5 and 6.7 reached end of ... Read More North Korea's APT37 Targeting Southern Counterpart with New M2RAT Malware The North Korea-linked threat actor tracked as APT37 has been linked to a piece of new malware dubbed M2RAT in attacks targeting its southern counterpart, suggesting continued evolution of the group's features and tactics. APT37, also tracked under the monikers Reaper, RedEyes, Ricochet Chollima, and ScarCruft, is linked to North Korea's Ministry of State Security (MSS) unlike the Lazarus ... Read More Webinar — A MythBusting Special: 9 Myths about File-based Threats Bad actors love to deliver threats in files. Persistent and persuasive messages convince unsuspecting victims to accept and open files from unknown sources, executing the first step in a cyber attack.  This continues to happen whether the file is an EXE or a Microsoft Excel document. Far too often, end users have an illusion of security, masked by good faith efforts of other users and ... Read More Financially Motivated Threat Actor Strikes with New Ransomware and Clipper Malware A new financially motivated campaign that commenced in December 2022 has seen the unidentified threat actor behind it deploying a novel ransomware strain dubbed MortalKombat and a clipper malware known as Laplas. Cisco Talos said it "observed the actor scanning the internet for victim machines with an exposed remote desktop protocol (RDP) port 3389." The attacks, per the cybersecurity ... Read More Regular Pen Testing Is Key to Resolving Conflict Between SecOps and DevOps In an ideal world, security and development teams would be working together in perfect harmony. But we live in a world of competing priorities, where DevOps and security departments often butt heads with each other. Agility and security are often at odds with each other— if a new feature is delivered quickly but contains security vulnerabilities, the SecOps team will need to scramble the ... Read More Understanding Cyber Insurance Identity Security Requirements for 2023 Gain a comprehensive understanding of cyber insurance protection. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to myemailku.ghdbrevo2018@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India