New Ransomware Gangs — Haron and BlackMatter — Emerge on Cybercrime Forums
Two new ransomware-as-service (RaaS) programs have appeared on the threat radar this month, with one group professing to be a successor to DarkSide and REvil, the two infamous ransomware syndicates…
You’ve Found a Vulnerability! Now What? A Guide to Responsible Disclosure.
Information security researchers make a valuable contribution to our online security by finding vulnerabilities and facilitating getting them fixed. Wordfence has been finding and disclosing vulnerabilities in WordPress core, WordPress…
Best Practices to Thwart Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks
Business email compromise (BEC) refers to all types of email attacks that do not have payloads. Although there are numerous types, there are essentially two main mechanisms through which attackers…
Chinese Hackers Implant PlugX Variant on Compromised MS Exchange Servers
A Chinese cyberespionage group known for targeting Southeast Asia leveraged flaws in the Microsoft Exchange Server that came to light earlier this March to deploy a previously undocumented variant of…