Artificial Intelligence June 6, 2022

Real Security Concerns Are Scarier Than Doomsday Predictions

4 min read - The metaverse, artificial intelligence (AI) run amok, the singularity … many far-out situations have become a dinner-table conversation. Will AI take over the world? Will you one day have a computer chip in your brain? These science fiction ideas may…

News May 18, 2022

AcidRain Malware Shuts Down Thousands of Modems in Ukraine

2 min read - On Thursday, February 24, a cyber attack rendered Viasat KA-SAT modems inoperable in Ukraine, according to a recent Viasat report. Collateral damage from this attack also deactivated the remote monitoring or control of 5,800 Enercon wind turbines in Germany. The…

News February 9, 2022

Attackers Used Malicious Telegram Installer to Distribute Purple Fox Rootkit

2 min read - Threat actors leveraged a malicious Telegram installer to infect users with the Purple Fox rootkit. A Case Study in Evasion With the help of MalwareHunterTeam, Minerva Labs looked into a malicious Telegram installer and found that it was a compiled…

Banking & Finance January 24, 2022

TrickBot Bolsters Layered Defenses to Prevent Injection Research

7 min read - This post was written with contributions from IBM X-Force’s Limor Kessem and Charlotte Hammond. The cyber crime gang that operates the TrickBot Trojan, as well as other malware and ransomware attacks, has been escalating activity. As part of that escalation,…

News December 14, 2021

Squid Game Used as Lure for Malware Campaigns, Phishing Attacks

2 min read - Digital attackers are using Netflix’s popular series “Squid Game” as a lure for their malware campaigns and phishing operations. Two Trojan Downloaders Targeting Fans Kaspersky uncovered dozens of different malicious files related to Squid Game between September and October 2021,…

Intelligence & Analytics December 1, 2021

X-Force Threat Intelligence: Monthly Malware Roundup

4 min read - Today’s reality means that organizations need to be constantly vigilant against security breaches. Having a robust incident response plan in place is vital. IBM Security X-Force is a team dedicated to delivering the latest threat intelligence, research and analysis reports…

Incident Response November 1, 2021

From Thanos to Prometheus: When Ransomware Encryption Goes Wrong

7 min read - IBM Security X-Force researchers have recently reverse-engineered Prometheus ransomware samples as part of ongoing incident response operations. X-Force has found that samples that infected organizational networks featured flawed encryption. This allowed our team to develop a fast-acting decryptor and help…

News October 27, 2021

Triada Trojan Conceals Itself in WhatsApp Mod

2 min read - A variant of the Triada Trojan concealed itself within a WhatsApp mod for Android devices, Kaspersky found in August. What Is Triada? Threat actors hid Triada within the WhatsApp mod FMWhatsapp 16.80.0. The security firm also found the Trojan modification,…

News September 29, 2021

High-Severity Vulnerabilities Now Take Nearly 250 Days to Remediate, Survey Finds

2 min read - Businesses and agencies today are spending an average of about 250 days to remediate high-severity risks, NTT Application Security found. This length of time gives attackers nearly a year in the target network. From there, they can misuse security weaknesses…

News September 23, 2021

Cloud Security: Report Finds 68% of Malware Delivered From Cloud Apps

2 min read - Cloud apps are now the most common way digital attackers distribute malware. In the second quarter of 2021, researchers found that 68% of malware downloads originated from cloud apps, reported ZDNet. In order to keep your cloud security up, it’s…