Europol on Friday announced the takedown of the infrastructure associated with Ragnar Locker ransomware, alongside the arrest of a “key target” in France. “In an action carried out between 16 and 20 October, searches were conducted in Czechia, Spain, and Latvia,” the agency said. “The main perpetrator, suspected of being a developer of the Ragnar group,
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The open-source remote access trojan known as Quasar RAT has been observed leveraging DLL side-loading to fly under the radar and stealthily siphon data from compromised Windows hosts. “This technique capitalizes on the inherent trust these files command within the Windows environment,” Uptycs researchers Tejaswini Sandapolla and Karthickkumar Kathiresan said in a report published last week, detailing the malware’s
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The threat actor known as DoNot Team has been linked to the use of a novel .NET-based backdoor called Firebird targeting a handful of victims in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which disclosed the findings in its APT trends report Q3 2023, said the attack chains are also configured to deliver a downloader named CSVtyrei, so named for
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A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has pleaded guilty to charges accusing him of attempting to transmit classified defense information to Russia. Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 31, served as an Information Systems Security Designer for the NSA from June 6, 2022, to July 1, 2022, where he had Top Secret clearance to
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