The Good Just in the nick of time before year's end, Apple has delivered on its promise to introduce an expanded bug bounty program in 2019 that covers all its hardware platforms and is open to anyone. The Apple Security Bounty program offers some generous payouts,...

Earlier this year, we did a roundup of the first 6 months of MacOS malware in 2019, noting that there had been quite an uptick in outbreaks, from a return of OSX.Dok and Lazarus to new cryptominers, a fake WhatsApp trojan and the rapid development of a macOS bug which...

Recoil Ransomware Recoil popped up for sale in various forums in early November 2019. Like Project Root, the main draw is a low buy-in price and a fairly standard feature set. Early advertisements for Recoil touted the following: All these features are fairly standard...

The Good A decade's old cyber criminal group named "Bayrob" has finally been brought down and the gang members sentenced to prison. Bogdan Nicolescu got 20 years and Radu Miclaus got 18 years. FBI and foreign law enforcement have been bringing down criminals left and...

It's been two months since Apple dropped the initial release of macOS Catalina, and after a rapid few supplemental updates and a first point upgrade in the first month, things appear to have slowed down to a normal cadence. This week, Apple dropped the public release...

Today, SentinelLabs reveals new research that establishes the first known link between the pervasive TrickBot crimeware and North-Korean APT group Lazarus. In this post, we explain the significance of the discovery and get some unique insights from SentinelOne's Chief...

As 2019 draws to a close, we take a look at how the year has panned out on the cyber front. What have been the main trends witnessed over the last 12 months, and what can we learn from them to prepare for 2020 and beyond? Ransomware: The 'Gift' to Criminals That Keeps...

The Good Strong coordinated action was apparent this week when an international law enforcement operation targeted the sellers and users of the Imminent Monitor Remote Access Trojan (IM-RAT). The operation was led by the Australian Federal Police (AFP), with...