Dutch bank ABN Amro recently announced that client data may have been compromised in a ransomware attack at third-party services provider AddComm.  ABN Amro noted that AddComm distributes physical and digital documents and tokens to its clients and employees.  For the time being, ABN Amro has stopped using AddComm’s services.  ABN Amro said that its systems were not affected by the ransomware attack and that its clients should not worry about their money being at risk.

Zscaler has observed the growing use of sophisticated "TeaBot" Android malware to infect mobile phones. According to Zscaler ThreatLabz, there has been an increase in activity involving TeaBot, an Android banking Trojan also known as "Anatsa." TeaBot has been used to target apps from over 650 financial institutions. The threat actors mostly target users in Europe, the US, South Korea, and Singapore. This article continues to discuss findings regarding recent TeaBot activity.

According to Check Point, threat actors have been targeting Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) from various cybersecurity vendors. While monitoring attempts to gain access to customers' VPNs, the company found "a small number of login attempts" involving old VPN local accounts with password-only authentication. The attacks do not seem to exploit software vulnerabilities. This article continues to discuss Check Point's warning regarding threat actors targeting insecure VPN instances for initial access to enterprise networks.

Pharmacy prescription services provider A&A Services, which operates as Sav-Rx, has started notifying roughly 2.8 million individuals that their personal information was compromised in a cyberattack.  The company said the cyberattack occurred on October 8, 2023.  The company noted that the attackers accessed non-clinical systems containing personal information and exfiltrated their data.  The compromised information includes names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, eligibility data, and insurance identification numbers.

Ransomware attacks on VMware ESXi infrastructure follow a pattern regardless of the malware used. According to researchers at Sygnia, virtualization platforms are essential to organizational Information Technology (IT) infrastructure but often have misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, making them lucrative and effective targets for threat actors.

A team of Towson University and University of Maryland researchers is trying to identify every possible way to breach voting machines in order to uncover vulnerabilities and help election officials fix them. Questions regarding voting machines, such as whether a sophisticated cyberattack on a machine could go undetected, remain. The researchers hope their preliminary analysis will reassure voters by assessing the likelihood of such scenarios. This project considers cyber, physical, and insider threats.

MITRE found that state-sponsored hackers exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in an Ivanti product to access its Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization Environment (NERVE), a collaborative network for research, development, and prototyping. On January 10, Volexity revealed that Chinese hackers had compromised Ivanti Virtual Private Network (VPN) devices using the vulnerabilities.

Cyberhaven found that employees are increasingly entering sensitive data into Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini. The company's "AI Adoption and Risk Report," also noted a rise in "Shadow AI," which is the workplace use of AI tools on personal accounts without corporate safeguards. Due to the lack of visibility and control over employee use of Shadow AI, organizations may be unable to protect confidential employee, customer, and business data. This article continues to discuss key findings regarding

CloudSEK discovered that fake Pegasus spyware source code is being sold on the dark web, surface web, and instant messaging platforms. Researchers at CloudSEK searched the clear and dark web for spyware threats after Apple warned about "mercenary spyware" attacks. Many of the nearly 25,000 analyzed Telegram posts claimed to sell authentic Pegasus source code, a spyware strain commercialized by the Israeli company NSO Group. Most of the posts offered illegal services, often mentioning Pegasus and NSO tools.

The new ransomware strain "ShrinkLocker" creates a boot partition to encrypt corporate systems with Windows BitLocker. ShrinkLocker, which shrinks non-boot partitions to create the boot volume, has targeted a government agency and vaccine and manufacturing companies. This article continues to discuss findings regarding the new ShrinkLocker ransomware.