TRU Security

In an evaluation performed in May–June by well-known German testing laboratory AV-Test, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Advanced Security achieved a perfect score. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud blocked 10 out of 10 advanced threats crafted by laboratory experts to test the ability of security products to manage with new and unknown threats.

Researchers have reported that the 8Base ransomware, which operated covertly for over a year, exhibited a significant increase in activity in May and June 2023. Employing encryption and "name-and-shame" tactics, 8Base targets victims across diverse industries. It has been linked to 67 attacks, primarily affecting businesses in the U.S. and Brazil.

Researchers have discovered a Trojanized Super Mario Bros game installer that delivers multiple forms of malware, including an XMR miner, SupremeBot mining client and Umbral Stealer.

Siemens Energy, a Munich-based energy technology company with a revenue of €32 billion, has confirmed that their data was stolen in the recent Clop ransomware data-theft attacks, which exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer platform.

Attackers have stolen sensitive personal information from the MOVEit Transfer server of the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE), affecting approximately 45,000 students.

A cyberattack on Suncor Energy, a major Canadian energy company, impacted payment operations at Petro-Canada gas stations across Canada. Customers at the affected stations were unable to use credit card rewards points to complete their purchases.

A custom CovalentStealer malware, the Impacket framework, the HyperBro remote access trojan (RAT), and over a dozen China Chopper webshell samples were used by attackers to steal sensitive data from a U.S. organization in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) sector.