Shaun Nichols

NoName057(16) functions as a hacktivist crew primarily carrying out politically motivated DDoS attacks.

Intrusions by UAC-0063 involved the initial compromise of an employee's email account to facilitate the delivery of the malware strains, with Cherryspy enabling Python code execution and Hatvibe allowing further compromise.

Such an alliance, which currently has 55 members and 89 subscribers on its communication channel, has been touted as the largest in the world and seeks to launch intrusions in retaliation to Spain's recent arrests of individuals part of the NoName057(16) hacktivist group.

Cybercriminals are stepping up efforts to bypass a critical component in Microsoft Defender in order to covertly install malware.

While IPC Template Instances delivered to the Falcon sensor via Rapid Response Content updates between March and April were thoroughly examined by CrowdStrike's Content Validator, one of the two other IPC Template Instances pushing the identification of Named Pipes exploitation deployed last week was not determined to be problematic due to the flaw...

Even though there has been no clear evidence indicating ongoing active exploitation of CVE-2012-4792, the vulnerability, which could enable remote execution of arbitrary code, had been leveraged in watering hole attacks deployed against Capstone Turbine Corporation and the Council on Foreign Relations almost 12 years ago.

The rise in upstream attacks has cybercriminals increasingly setting their sites on technology companies, according to the team at Cisco Talos , who

CrowdStrike CEO Kurtz majority of systems back online and he is ‘deeply sorry’ for those still impacted.

Information exposed by the hacking incident revealed not only all devices infected with Spytech spyware, most of which were Windows PCs, but also their unencrypted activity logs.

Researchers say that a years-old security leak is putting a number of production model PCs at risk of persistent remote takeover.