Author: Anthony Lim

The holiday shopping season is officially upon us, and so is a new seasonal batch of payment security threats. The holiday sales rush spells payday for retail cybercriminals. Eight percent of consumers fell victim to identity theft or fraud during the holidays last year, according to a 2018 Experian survey,…

IBM X-Force has been researching and tracking destructive malware in the Middle East for some time now, particularly in the industrial and energy sectors. Since the first Shamoon attacks that started impacting organizations in the region in the summer of 2012, we have been following the evolution of destructive, disk-wiping…

Fifty years ago, Cold War spy tradecraft required ingenious, purpose-built spy technologies. These included tiny cameras that photographed through button-holes on microfilm, which were useful for taking pictures of paper documents, tiny microphones that had to be installed in landline telephone receivers or lamps for recording secret conversations, invisible ink…

The threat group operating the TrickBot Trojan, the most active banking Trojan family according to IBM X-Force data, has been modifying some of the malware’s modules lately as they continue to deploy their attacks in the wild. As code modifications take place, so do widespread TrickBot campaigns that target a…