A team of researchers from the University of California San Diego has published a paper detailing a novel attack method targeting Intel CPUs. The chip giant says no new mitigations are required to address it. The new attack, named Indirector, is similar to the well-known Spectre v2 or Spectre Branch Target Injection (BTI) attack. These methods typically allow…
Kaspersky has identified ransomware attacks using Microsoft’s BitLocker to attempt encryption of corporate files. The threat actors are using VBScript – a programming language used to automate tasks on Windows computers – to create a malicious script with previously unreported features to maximize the damage of the attack, Kaspersky Global Emergency Response team reports. The…
The battle against ransomware attacks has intensified during the April 2022 through April 2023 period, as proven by the key findings in this year’s report from Zscaler Cloud. As per Zscaler cloud, ransomware attacks witnessed a staggering 37.75% increase, signaling a growing threat to organizations worldwide. Worse, the payloads observed in the Zscaler sandbox surged…
