US Healthcare system is experiencing the most significant cyber security threat ever and its unfolding in the heat of a contentions presidential election and the worst global pandemic in a century. Hold Security has been closely tracking the Trickbot gang and Ryuk ransomware for a long time. This unprecedented wave of ransomware attacks originating from Trickbot which is still struggling to recover after a takedown attempt. New York Times story explains the threat.

Hold Security discovers a gang impersonating businesses for financial fraud. Using various impersonation techniques, the gang created fake profiles with DNB allowing them to establish significant credit lines for the abused businesses. Brian Krebs publishes our joint investigation into the malicious activities.

Hold Security profiles the gang, who is behind the cryptocurrency scam, that likely inspired the Twitter breach and the same scam that prompted Steve Wozniak to sue Alphabet Inc. over ineffective protection.

Hold Security identifies Russian-speaking threat actors abusing critical 0-day vulnerability within Zyxel NAS allowing execute malicious code bypassing system authentication.

We teamed up with Brian Krebs to alert CERT and vendor about the issue. Nearly 2 weeks later, Zyxel finally released a patch for some of their devices that they still support. Emotet gang is weaponizing these exploits to target IoT.

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Hold Security discovers hackers photoshopping images to reset 2FA!

Alex Holden, Hold Security’s CISO comments and contributes crucial information to the story.

MEQUON, Wis. – October 3, 2018 Hold Security announced today that Research firm Forrester recently identified and evaluated the 15 most significant providers for External Threat Intelligence, and Hold Security, LLC, ranked as a strong performer in that space. In today’s world, the impact of data security breaches intensifies as for-profit hackers mix with corporate- and state-sponsored hackers, making it paramount for companies to look at emerging cyber threats that are coming from outside of their perimeter.

Hold Security’s discovery of a critical password vulnerability within Equifax Argentina website paints a grim picture of the state of security within Equifax. Brian Krebs covers the details in his article.

How much are you worth to a hacker? Hold Security dove into the black market to put some numbers on it!

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