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Although unconfirmed; the notorious REvil ransomware gang could be behind the DDoS attacks on VoIP.ms. A Quebec-based Internet phone service provider VoIP.ms, which offers voice-over-IP services, has been down since September 17th. Reportedly, the firm is being held to ransom after becoming a victim of a massive and sustained DDoS attack. The assault has severely […]
Reportedly, the REvil ransomware gang is using DDoS attacks to make huge ransom demands from victim companies VoIP Unlimited and Voipfone. Two Internet and Telephony Service Providers (ITSP) in the United Kingdom, the South Coast-based VoIP Unlimited and London-based Voipfone, got their services disrupted for several days after suffering a series of Massive DDoS attacks. […]
FBI has issued an alert to families of missing persons to watch out for fake ransom scams in which cyber criminals demand money after collecting information about victims from social media. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning to inform the families of mission persons to never let their guard down and beware […]
Popular British rock band Radiohead is in the news for all the wrong reasons. According to an announcement made by Radiohead this Tuesday, the band had to release 18 hours of unheard material from the studio sessions recorded in 1997 for their landmark album “Ok Computer.” Guitarist Jonny Greenwood explained the reason behind such an […]
Recently it was reported that Chinese hackers are aiming to target around 26 leading research academies to steal research about maritime technology, the majority of which happen to be based in the USA. In the same week, three mainstream private colleges have claimed that their systems were hacked and hackers managed to gain access to […]
Famed secure email service provider VFEmail has become a victim of a hack attack by an unknown cybercriminal. The company claims that it has suffered a “catastrophic destruction” of its US servers and almost two decades of data and backups in only a few hours. The entire digital infrastructure of the company got destroyed by […]
On Monday when the whole world was gearing up to celebrate New Year’s Eve hackers from The Dark Overlord group made astonishing claims that they stole a trove of data from Hiscox Syndicates Ltd, a law firm responsible for handling insurance files related to 9/11 terrorist attacks. This was reported by MotherBoard after a Pastebin […]
Nearly 50 Linux and Windows servers have been affected by these attacks Ransomware attacks became popular (for the worst reasons) in a brief lapse of time. News about attacks such as WannaCry, Petya and NotPetya preceded a substantial increase in the number of small campaigns using similar techniques to extort unsuspecting Internet users. Recently, ethical hacking researchers have disclosed the […]
Hackers are threatening companies to leak stolen user data online to hurt them through GDPR regulations – In return they are demanding ransom money. On 25 May 2018, the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which aims to improve information security on a global scale came into force. At the same time, this provoked […]
Security researchers from ESET spotted a new Android ransomware DoubleLocker which encrypts all the files on your device and also it changes the device PIN and set to random value. It is the first ever ransomware that misusing Android accessibility services, it can change device’s PIN to prevent users from accessing the device and also […]
A group of DDoS extortionists using the name of Phantom Squad has sent out a massive spam wave to thousands of companies all over the globe, threating DDoS attacks on September 30, if victims do not pay a ransom demand. The emails spreading the ransom demands were first spotted by security researcher Derrick Farmer and the threats […]
Ransom attacks on MongoDB databases rekindled last week and over the weekend with the emergence of three new groups that hijacked over 26,000 servers, with one group hijacking 22,000. The attacks, detected by security researchers Dylan Katz and Victor Gevers, are a continuation of the so-called MongoDB Apocalypse that started in late December 2016 and continued through the first months […]
Italian researchers have developed a Windows drop-in driver and custom filesystem that are capable of detecting the telltale signs of a ransomware infection, stop any malicious actions and even revert any encrypted files to their previous state. Called ShieldFS, this new project is the work of seven researchers from the Politecnico di Milano University and was […]
Armada Collective, a group of online attackers, is demanding a ransom payment of $315,000 from South Korean banks – In the case of refusal, the group has threatened the banks with a series of massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The threats came days after South Korean web hosting company NAYANA paid over $1 million […]
A tool released on Friday decrypts PCs running a fuller suite of Windows versions. New hope glimmered on Friday for people hit by last week’s virulent ransomware worm after researchers showed that a broader range of PCs infected by WCry can be unlocked without owners making the $300 to $600 payment demand. A new publicly […]
Steven Frank, co-founder of Panic, a vendor of Mac and iOS apps, has admitted yesterday that a hacker stole some of his company’s source code. Frank says this happened after he updated a version of the HandBrake Mac client, an app for converting multimedia files between various audio formats. Frank apparently performed the update by […]
[jpshare]Ransomware JAFF Back in action this late April, circulating through malicious PDF files.Necurs, one of the biggest botnets, went disconnected amid the occasion time of 2016 and from May 11, Necurs began spreading another ransomware called JAFF. Check Point’s global sensors have spotted as many as 40,000 emails in the last few hours, at an […]
“I just want my money,” one of the hackers said. A hacker or group of hackers is apparently trying to extort Apple over alleged access to a large cache of iCloud and other Apple email accounts. The hackers, who identified themselves as ‘Turkish Crime Family’, demanded $75,000 in Bitcoin or Ethereum, another increasingly popular crypto-currency, […]
For the past week, unknown groups of cyber-criminals have taken control of and wiped data from CouchDB and Hadoop databases, in some cases asking for a ransom fee to return the stolen files, but in some cases, destroying data just for fun. These incidents come after crooks hijacked and held data ransom from MongoDB databases […]
Almost years again, we warned users approximately publicly on hand MongoDB instances – almost six hundred Terabytes (TB) – over the internet which require no authentication, probably leaving websites and servers liable to hacking. these MongoDB instances weren’t exposed because of any flaw in its software program, but due to a misconfiguration (horrific safety exercise) […]
An attacker going by the name of Harak1r1 is hijacking unprotected MongoDB databases, stealing their content, and asking for a Bitcoin ransom to return the data. These attacks have been happening for more than a week and have hit servers all over the world. The first one to notice the attacks was security researcher Victor […]