Cybersecurity Weekly: Travelex pays ransom, Maze hacks HMR, Microsoft buys corp.com
Travelex paid $2.3 million ransom to restore operations after a ransomware attack. The Maze ransomware gang discloses data from drug testing firm HMR. Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.
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1. Travelex paid $2.3 million ransom to restore operations
Travelex recently paid a $2.3 million ransom payment to get their systems back online after being encrypted by a Sodinokibi ransomware attack. As part of this attack, the operators behind the Sodinokibi ransomware encrypted the company's entire network, deleted backup files and copied more than 5GB of personal data.
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2. Maze ransomware gang discloses data from drug testing firm HMR
Last month, London-based Hammersmith Medicines Research suffered a data breach. On March 21, the Maze ransomware operators published some of the stolen files on their leak site, after the refusal of the research firm of paying the ransom. Stolen data included the personal information for volunteers whose surnames begin with D, G, I or J.
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3. Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t
Earlier this year, a private citizen auctioned off the corp.com domain for the starting price of $1.7 million. Due to a decades-old DNS collision, corp.com was able to receive sensitive data from hundreds of thousands of Windows PCs. This week, Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy the domain in a bid to keep it out of the hands of those who might abuse its power.
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4. Copycat site serves up Raccoon stealer
Attackers are targeting web users with a malicious copycat Malwarebytes website that serves up the Raccoon information stealer malware to unsuspecting visitors. According to Malwarebytes, the attackers set up the phishy domain with a Russian registrar in late March, and the site is still currently active.
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5. New emerging IoT botnet malware spotted in the wild
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new IoT botnet threat that leverages compromised smart devices to stage DDoS attacks, potentially triggered on-demand through platforms offering DDoS-for-hire services. The botnet, named dark_nexus, works by employing credential stuffing attacks against a variety of IoT devices.
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6. How xHelper Android malware reinstalls after factory reset
xHelper reportedly infected over 45,000 devices last year, and since then, cybersecurity researchers have been trying to unfold how the malware survives a factory reset and how it infected so many devices in the first place. Last week, cybersecurity researchers finally solved the mystery around the persistence mechanism of the mobile device malware.
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7. Large email extortion campaign underway
A large email extortion campaign is underway, telling recipients that their computer was hacked and that a video was taken through the hacked computer's webcam. The attackers then demand $1,900 in bitcoin or the video will be sent to family and friends. In the first week, concerned recipients sent over $50,000 in bitcoin to the attackers.
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8. Over 3.6 million users installed iOS fleeceware from App Store
Developers of fleeceware apps are now using the Apple App Store as a distribution platform, and have already delivered their iOS apps onto over 3.6 million iPhone and iPad devices worldwide. These apps are used to charge hundreds of dollars for basic features that are commonly available for free in other apps.
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9. Attackers can bypass fingerprint authentication with 80% success rate
As fingerprint authentication gets more complex, hackers seem to be keeping up with a steady 80% success rate. A recent study showed that at least one out of 50 sample fingerprints is able to unlock devices from Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Huawei and other manufacturers with an alarmingly high rate of success.
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10. Twitter now sharing more data with advertisers
Twitter recently removed a privacy feature that allowed all users to stop sharing private information with advertisers. The setting prevented Twitter from sharing information like the ads users saw or interacted with and the tracking identifier for the user’s phone. For most users, that information will now be shared by default and can’t be turned off.
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In this Series
- Cybersecurity Weekly: Travelex pays ransom, Maze hacks HMR, Microsoft buys corp.com
- Canada Flipper Zero ban and new RustDoor macOS malware
- AnyDesk hack and iPhone patched kernel flaw
- Tesla Pwn2Own hacks and iOS push alerts abuse
- TeamViewer breach and Atlassian Jira outage
- Moscow ISP revenge hack and Microsoft Sharepoint bug warning
- X verified accounts hack and SpectralBlur macOS malware
- CISA default password alert and SOHO KV-botnet campaign
- New 5G modem flaws and Apple’s data breach report
- Staples cyberattack, Agent Racoon backdoor and other news
- British Library ransomware attack, Windows fingerprint authentication bypass
- Samsung UK data breach and ransomware actor’s SEC complaint
- ICBC ransomware attack and ChatGPT outage
- Boeing Lockbit ransomware attack, Apple’s vulnerability and WhatsApp mods spyware
- Octo Tempest hacking group and new iLeakage attack
- Okta support system breach and Google Ads fake KeePass campaign
- Skype DarkGate malware, Shadow PC breach and AvosLocker ransomware warning
- 23andMe data theft, MGM’s $100M ransomware loss and the Azure VM breach
- Malicious Bing Chat ads and FBI’s dual ransomware warning
- T-Mobile app glitch and fake Booking.com pages
- Airbus data leak, Cisco Webex ad malware and €345 million TikTok fine
- New Apple iMessage exploit and CISA’s Apache RocketMQ warning
- Forever 21 data breach and Android BadBazaar espionage
- Duolingo data leak and the Met Police IT hack
- Discord.io data breach and Ivanti Avalanche vulnerabilities
- UK Electoral Commission hack and Microsoft’s role in China email breach
- Salesforce email zero-day exploit and Microsoft Power Platform criticism
- Airlines disclose pilot data breach and the Microsoft Teams bug
- GravityRAT Android Trojan and new MOVEit Transfer flaw
- University of Manchester hack and Honda API flaws
- MOVEit zero-day exploit and the U.S. iPhone hack accusation
- Daam Android virus and Barracuda zero-day flaw
- TP-Link router exploit and 18-year-old charged with hacking DraftKings accounts
- Discord support hack and Toyota location data leak
- Twitter private tweets bug and Cisco phone router vulnerabilities
- Cisco XSS zero-day flaw and PaperCut vulnerabilities
- 3CX hackers hit critical infrastructure and secondhand routers cause security concerns
- Hyundai data breach and Microsoft’s warning to accountants
- Western Digital cloud breach and the MSI ransomware hack
- TMX loan data breach, Italy bans ChatGPT and WordPress Elementor Pro exploit
- ChatGPT data leak and Gmail message theft by North Korean hackers
- U.S. federal agency hack and the return of FakeCalls Android malware
- Massive AT&T data breach and fake jobs targeting security researchers
- U.S. Marshals service breach and TPM 2.0 security flaws
- Dangerous ChatGPT apps and food giant Dole ransomware attack
- GoDaddy malware installations, record-breaking DDoS attack and the new WhiskerSpy malware
- Reddit’s employees phished, healthcare firms targeted and the new Screenshotter malware
- JD Sports data breached, VMware ESXi servers attacked and the HeadCrab malware
- Yandex source code leaked, 4500+ WordPress sites hacked and the new SwiftSlicer malware
- PayPal accounts breached, Fortinet VPN flaw exploited, and the new Hook malware
- Twitter users’ emails leaked, ChatGPT used to write malware and Slack’s repository breach
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