Tag: malicious files
Microsoft’s GitHub: A Growing Platform for Delivering Malicious Payloads – January 12th
A Recorded Future report discloses that Microsoft-owned GitHub is a growing and lucrative platform for threat actors to effectively deliver malicious payloads by blending the payloads with legitimate traffic. The open-source data repository platform's legitimacy is now being leveraged cleverly by threat actors who are "living-off-trusted-sites". However, the limitations in the site's file size and storage stopped large-scale payloads used for data exfiltration from being delivered.
62% of Top Ransomware Groups Activated Remote Attacks in 2023 – December 27th
According to Sophos' latest report, 62% of the most active ransomware groups in the world deliberately enable remote encryption for their attacks. Sophos' report entitled "CryptoGuard: An Asymmetric Approach to the Ransomware Battle," gathered the data based on Sophos' detected and halted ransomware attacks in 2023. The report further stated that remote encryption is used as a tactic for effective, widespread ransomware attacks within organizations, aiming to steal as much sensitive information as possible.