A week in security (July 19 – July 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs:

• Stopransomware(dot)gov, a one-stop hub for ransomware resources
• Beware, crypto-scammer seeks foreigner with BLOCK CHAIN ACCOUNT
• Remcos RAT delivered via Visual Basic
• US, EU, UK, NATO blame China for “reckless” exchange attacks
• HiveNightmare zero-day lets anyone be SYSTEM on Windows 10 and 11
• ID theft ghouls targeting Surfside victims is appalling, but no surprise
• The life and death of the ZeuS Trojan
• Pegasus spyware has been here for years. We must stop ignoring it
• Millions of Windows machines affected by ancient printer vulnerability
• Five years for swatter who caused a man’s death for a Twitter handle
• Busted! Fraud as a service gang that sold 2FA-proof phishing arrested
• CNA legal filings lift curtain on a Phoenix cryptolocker ransomware attack
• Avoslocker enters the ransomware scene, asks for partners

Other cybersecurity news

• Pegasus spyware seller: blame our customers, not us, for hacking (Source: BBC)
• A favourite target of Russian hackers, the Olympics are on guard (Source: NBC)
• UK national suspected of hacking Twitter accounts of Joe Biden and Barack Obama is arrested in Southern Spain (Source: El Pais)
• Japan government says companies are being targeted by China-backed cyber hacking group (Source: Reuters)
• New Zealand, China clash over hacking claims (Source: VOA)
• Phishing attacks get smarter as targets struggle to keep up (Source: VentureBeat)
• Discord hosts “significant volumes of malware” in its CDN (Source: The Register)
• Hacker group threatening to sell 1TB of Saudi Aramco data to the highest bidder (Source: TIESS)
• 40 percent of individuals fell victim to a phishing attack in the past month (Source: Help Net Security)
• India and Vietnam rank on list as those most hit by Android malware (Source: Tech Wire Asia)

Stay safe, everyone!

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