With multiple adversaries continuing to leverage the pandemic, an interesting technique by cybercriminals has surfaced that uses unique staging and execution mechanisms via a malicious doc.

Disruptive cyberattacks on retailers becoming more common and experts have recently noted the use of double-extortion technique among hackers targeting retail organizations.

Nation-state APTs are actively exploiting known vulnerabilities in the Fortinet FortiOS cybersecurity OS to gain initial access to multiple government, commercial, and technology services.

Kaspersky spotted a cyberespionage campaign targeted against government and military organizations in Vietnam via DLL side-loading.

The methodology of the attack involved adding cryptors to cheat codes, cheat engines, and mods that made it challenging for security teams to analyze the attack.

Security experts are reporting about the distribution of BazarCall malware via fake call centers. Under the aforementioned campaign, threat actors trick users into installing the Windows malware.

After taking inputs from1,000 enterprise security decision-makers from China, Germany, Japan, the U.K, and the U.S, Microsoft uncovered that 80% of global enterprises experienced firmware attacks.

Manufacturing firms have become a top target of cybercriminals, extortionists, and nation-state groups as a majority of companies continue to experience breaches impacting their factories and taking production offline.

Akamai has recently reported three large-scale DDoS attacks. These attacks count among the six biggest volumetric DDoS attacks the company has ever recorded.

According to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG), the attackers created a website for a fake company offering offensive security services to attract security researchers.