Threat actors are capitalizing on the growing popularity of proxyware platforms like Honeygain and Nanowire to monetize their own malware campaigns, once again illustrating how attackers are quick to repurpose and weaponize legitimate platforms to their advantage. "Malware is currently leveraging these platforms to monetize the internet bandwidth of victims, similar to how … [Read more...] about Cybercriminals Abusing Internet-Sharing Services to Monetize Malware Campaigns
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Cybercriminals Widely Abusing Excel 4.0 Macro to Distribute Malware
Threat actors are increasingly adopting Excel 4.0 documents as an initial stage vector to distribute malware such as ZLoader and Quakbot, according to new research. The findings come from an analysis of 160,000 Excel 4.0 documents between November 2020 and March 2021, out of which more than 90% were classified as malicious or suspicious. "The biggest risk for the targeted … [Read more...] about Cybercriminals Widely Abusing Excel 4.0 Macro to Distribute Malware
Attackers Abusing Citrix NetScaler Devices to Launch Amplified DDoS Attacks
Citrix has issued an emergency advisory warning its customers of a security issue affecting its NetScaler application delivery controller (ADC) devices that attackers are abusing to launch amplified distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against several targets. "An attacker or bots can overwhelm the Citrix ADC [Datagram Transport Layer Security] network throughput, … [Read more...] about Attackers Abusing Citrix NetScaler Devices to Launch Amplified DDoS Attacks
Google Will Now Pay Anyone Who Reports Apps Abusing Users’ Data
In the wake of data abuse scandals and several instances of malware app being discovered on the Play Store, Google today expanded its bug bounty program to beef up the security of Android apps and Chrome extensions distributed through its platform.The expansion in Google's vulnerability reward program majorly includes two main announcements.First, a new program, dubbed … [Read more...] about Google Will Now Pay Anyone Who Reports Apps Abusing Users’ Data