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New malware variant for macOS devices
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Jamf's Threat Labs team has identified a new malware variant that targets macOS devices. The malware, called ObjCShellz, is attributed to the financially motivated hacker group BlueNoroff APT from North Korea. The malware differs from previous BlueNoroff attacks in several ways, but follows the group's trend of using simple remote shell functions. These latest attacks are part of the RustBucket campaign, in which BlueNoroff masquerades as an investor or headhunter and often uses domains that impersonate legitimate cryptocurrency companies to infiltrate networks. An analysis by Kaspersky has shown that in many cases the Internet addresses...

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2021: Targeting cryptocurrencies
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Kaspersky publishes its forecasts for financial cybercrime in 2021: cryptocurrencies in their sights, server-side web skimming and increasing blackmail attempts. The Kaspersky experts present their forecasts on the development of financially motivated cyberattacks in 2021: While many cyber criminals continue to expand their Bitcoin raids, others are likely to make their ransom demands in alternative cryptocurrencies for security reasons and only exchange the sums for Bitcoins later. In addition, blackmail attempts via DDoS attacks and ransomware will continue to increase, with ransomware attackers likely to concentrate more on advanced tactics. They are likely to use the previously extorted money to buy information about vulnerabilities in order to carry out their attacks ...

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Cryptocurrency industry on fire
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F-Secure reports: North Korean hackers launch global attack campaign on the cryptocurrency industry. Although the professional attackers covered their tracks, F-Secure was able to reconstruct a global attack by the so-called Lazarus Group. The cybersecurity specialists at F-Secure have published a report in which they link details of a targeted attack on a company in the cryptocurrency industry with the Lazarus Group. The group of hackers, which is believed to have close ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is known for its highly professional approach, which pursues purely financial interests. In the report, F-Secure comes from the combination of ...

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