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Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new variant of the Snatch ransomware that first reboots infected Windows computers into Safe Mode and only then encrypts victims’ files to avoid antivirus detection. Unlike traditional malware, the new Snatch ransomware chooses to run in Safe Mode because in the diagnostic mode Windows operating system starts with a minimal […]
A Russian hacker who created and used Neverquest banking malware to steal money from victims’ bank accounts has finally been sentenced to 4 years in prison by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov, 34, was arrested by Spanish authorities at Barcelona–El Prat Airport in January 2017 […]
Targeted ransomware attacks on banking and finance, government, healthcare, and critical infrastructure are on the rise, with the latest victim being the state government of Louisiana. The state government of Louisiana was hit by a large-scale coordinated ransomware attack yesterday, which forced the state to take several state agency servers offline, including government websites, email […]
This time, the new version (v2) of the side channel data loss vulnerability also affects the latest Intel processors, including the latest Cascade Lake, which are otherwise resistant to attacks such as Meltdown, Foreshadow and other MDS variants (RIDL and Fallout). Originally discovered in May of this year, ZombieLoad is one of three new types […]
Security researchers have tracked down activities of a new group of financially-motivated hackers that are targeting several businesses and organizations in Germany, Italy, and the United States in an attempt to infect them with backdoor, banking Trojan, or ransomware malware. Though the new malware campaigns are not customized for each organization, the threat actors appear […]
The new pharmaceutical features will help companies to develop more direct relations with patients. On Tuesday, Salesforce launched new capabilities for its Health Cloud that target specific segments in the life sciences sector— the drug industry and companies in medical devices. The development of Salesforce’s Health Cloud forms part of the greater effort of the […]
Everis, one of the largest IT consulting companies in Spain, suffered a targeted ransomware attack on Monday, forcing the company to shut down all its computer systems until the issue gets resolved completely. Ransomware is a computer virus that encrypts files on an infected system until a ransom is paid. According to several local media, […]
Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new cyberattack that is believed to be the very first but an amateur attempt to weaponize the infamous BlueKeep RDP vulnerability in the wild to mass compromise vulnerable systems for cryptocurrency mining. In May this year, Microsoft released a patch for a highly-critical remote code execution flaw, dubbed BlueKeep, in its Windows […]
About 2,000 websites in Georgia were compromised in a major cyber attack on Monday, including those of the President, courts and the press. The photograph of Georgia’s former exiled president Mikheil Saakashvili was presented with an inscription “I will be back!” The website of Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili was “attacked this afternoon by hackers,” her […]
Consumer watchdog says Google gathers and uses location data without telling users. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) is bringing up against Google and its Australian branch claims of the search engine misleading consumers about location data obtained on Android devices. The ACCC claims that Google did not inform Australians in 2017 and 2018 […]
Finally, for the very first time, an encrypted messaging service provider is taking legal action against a private entity that has carried out malicious attacks against its users. Facebook filed a lawsuit against Israeli mobile surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, alleging that the company was actively involved in hacking users of its end-to-end encrypted […]
As Japan gears up for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo for the next year, the country needs to brace itself for sophisticated cyberattacks, especially from state-sponsored hackers. Microsoft has issued a short notice, warning about a new wave of highly targeted cyberattacks by a group of Russian state-sponsored hackers attempting to hack over […]
A decade-old botnet malware that currently controls over 450,000 computers worldwide has recently shifted its operations from infecting machines with ransomware or crypto miners to abusing them for sending out sextortion emails to millions of innocent people. Extortion by email is growing significantly, with a large number of users recently complaining about receiving sextortion emails […]
Microsoft released a new series of security patches in Internet Explorer for a zero-day bug, originally addressed on September 23. The original updates introduced some printing problems, but the new ones seem to be unstable too. Tracked as CVE-2019-1367, the default was considered to be a memory error that could lead to execution of remote […]
Phishing is still one of the widely used strategies by cybercriminals and espionage groups to gain an initial foothold on the targeted systems. Though hacking someone with phishing attacks was easy a decade ago, the evolution of threat detection technologies and cyber awareness among people has slowed down the success of phishing and social engineering […]
Attackings of technology businesses in Southeast Asia by a suspected Chinese threat actor employ a version of the open-source PcShare backdoor, safety scientists in BlackBerry Cylance warn. The attackers also used a Trojan-made screen reader application, which replaces the built-in Windows “Easy Access” narrator function, mainly gaining distant control over the infected systems without the […]
The French law enforcement agency, National Gendarmerie, today announced the successful takedown of one of the largest wide-spread RETADUP botnet malware and how it remotely disinfected more than 850,000 computers worldwide with the help of researchers. Earlier this year, security researchers at Avast antivirus firm, who were actively monitoring the activities of RETADUP botnet, discovered […]
Today, criminal organizations no longer attack corporations and businesses physically with weapons. Instead, they use computers and malware, aiming to steal vital information that can be used for malicious means. Professional cybercriminal organizations know what they are looking for and will find ways to get it. This is what makes an advanced persistent threat (APT) […]
A phishing campaign for grid operators uses a PDF attachment to offer spyware. A campaign aimed at a domestic grid infrastructure that spoofs a PDF attachment to deliver Adwind spyware. Adwind, a.k.a. JRAT or SockRat, is used in this campaign in a malware-as – a-service model, researchers said. It offers a full set of info-gathering […]
Organizations from all over the world are experiencing an increase in social engineering attacks, both in number and in sophistication. Hackers are devising more clever methods of fooling individuals or employees into giving up sensitive data that can be used to breach the company. As such, organizations need extra due diligence to counter these social […]
The printer started as a simple device for printing on paper, providing users with a physical copy of their documents. However, this past decade, a printer even at home became networked in order to be used by multiple users at the same time. At the turn of the 2010’s decade, the printer which used to […]