MWCERT was established pursuant to Section 6 of the Electronic Transaction and Cyber Security act, 2016 of the Laws of Malawi to take charge of Critical information infrastructure protection actions and serve as a base for national coordination to respond to cyber security threats
Security highlights
The Triada Malware
Triada is a modular mobile Trojan that actively uses root privileges to substitute system files and uses several clever methods to become [...]
Getting facts correct! 5G and COVID-19, what is the connection?
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a threat to humanity and the first pandemic in human history where information technology and social [...]
Phishing Attacks Increase 350 Percent Amid COVID-19 Quarantine
According to a report from Google, these nefarious actors are proving to be very successful. Google found there were 149,195 [...]
Phishing Attack Says You’re Exposed to Corona Virus, Spreads Malware
Cyber criminals are using a new phishing campaign that tells victims they've come in contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19 [...]
Corona Virus Trojan Overwriting The MBR
SonicWall Capture Labs Threat Research team recently found a new malware taking advantage of the CoViD19 pandemic which makes disks [...]
Corona Virus Used in Malicious Campaigns
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is being used in a variety of malicious campaigns including email spam, BEC, malware, ransomware, and [...]
SECURITY FEEDS
- Cisco Issues Patches For 2 High-Severity IOS XR Flaws Under Active Attacks
- Researchers Uncover Cyber Espionage Operation Aimed At Indian Army
- Chinese APT Group Targets Media, Finance, and Electronics Sectors
- LIVE Webinar on Zerologon Vulnerability: Technical Analysis and Detection
- Red Team — Automation or Simulation?
Recent advisories
Adobe’s Critical Patches for Acrobat Reader, Photoshop, Bridge, ColdFusion
Adobe released a massive batch of out-of-band software updates for six of its products to patch a total of [...]
Microsoft Issues Patches for 4 Bugs Exploited as Zero-Day in the Wild
Microsoft has 0n 14-04-2020 released the latest batch of software security updates for all supported versions of its Windows operating systems [...]
Memcached reflection denial-of-service
CERT MW has been informed of an active attack that is using memcached servers to perform a reflected Denial of [...]
MikroTik RouterOS vulnerability
CERT MW has been informed of an active attack targeting MikroTik RouterOS devices.Attackers are identifying these devices by scanning for [...]