Microsoft Finds FoxBlade Malware Hit Ukraine Hours Before Russian Invasion

Five Cyber Threat Trends for 2022

This report consolidates findings from Darktrace’s worldwide Cyber Analyst team to present five overarching trends observed in the Darktrace Customer Community in 2021.

Hackers Try to Target European Officials to Get Info on Ukrainian Refugees, Supplies

Details of a new nation-state sponsored phishing campaign have been uncovered setting its sights on European governmental entities in what's seen as an attempt to obtain intelligence on refugee and supply movement in the region. Enterprise security company Proofpoint, which detected the malicious ...

Hackers Begin Weaponizing TCP Middlebox Reflection for Amplified DDoS Attacks

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks leveraging a new amplification technique called TCP Middlebox Reflection have been detected for the first time in the wild, six months after the novel attack mechanism was presented in theory. "The attack […] abuses vulnerable firewalls and content ...

LIVE Webinar: Key Lessons Learned from Major Cyberattacks in 2021 and What to Expect in 2022

With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact, and perhaps permanently changing, how we work, cybercriminals again leveraged the distraction in new waves of cyberattacks. Over the course of 2021 we saw an increase in multiple attack approaches; some old, some new. Phishing and ransomware ...

Critical Bugs Reported in Popular Open Source PJSIP SIP and Media Stack

As many as five security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the PJSIP open-source multimedia communication library that could be abused by an attacker to trigger arbitrary code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) in applications that use the protocol stack. The weaknesses were identified and ...

Critical Security Bugs Uncovered in VoIPmonitor Monitoring Software

Critical security vulnerabilities have been uncovered in VoIPmonitor software that, if successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated attackers to escalate privileges to the administrator level and execute arbitrary commands. Following responsible disclosure by researchers from Kerbit, an ...

Five Cyber Threat Trends for 2022

This report consolidates findings from Darktrace’s worldwide Cyber Analyst team to present five overarching trends observed in the Darktrace Customer Community in 2021.