Cybersecurity News & Trends – 07-10-20

This week, phishing dominated the headlines, as threat actors targeted Office 365 users and senior executives. SonicWall Spotlight Contact tracing apps: “It’s better to do it right than quick” — Verdict This podcast on contact […]

Massive malspam campaign delivers malicious payloads using fake CAPTHA

SonicWall Capture Labs Threat Research team has come across a new malspam campaign, that pretends to be a legitimate pdf but installs malware on the victim’s computer. When a user opens this PDF, they will be […]

Cybersecurity News & Trends – 07-02-20

This week, the U.S. government brought up cybersecurity legislation, while the U.S. judicial system handed down cybercriminal incarceration. SonicWall Spotlight Hackers used ransomware to take over parts of UC San Francisco’s network and extorted $1.14million […]

BadBoy ransomware, variant of Spartacus charges $1000 for decryption

The SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team have observed reports of ransomware that encrypts files and appends a “.BadBoy” extension to their names.  This variant of the malware is new but is based on Spartacus […]

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