Computer Security
German District Hit by Cyberattack, "Paralyzed" by the Hack
The German municipality of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, a part of the Saxony-Anhalt German state, found itself in what officials call a "cyber-catastrophe" after a hacker attack. Yet unidentified hackers brought down the IT... Read more
Researchers Uncover Long-Term Cyber-Espionage Campaign
Security researchers have recently unveiled information about a long-term cyber-espionage campaign targeting fuel industry companies across the world. The campaign was focused on long-term detection avoidance and... Read more
REvil Ransomware Ported to Linux for Targeted Attacks
Security researchers informed the infosec community that the REvil ransomware, the malware responsible for the recent $11 million ransomware job on JBS Foods, has just received a Linux port. According to the security... Read more
Large-Scale Ransomware Attack Averted by Security Experts
An unnamed company was about to become the latest negative headline and suffer a major ransomware attack, but security researchers managed to avert the crisis in the nick of time. ZDNet reported on the incident, which... Read more
Personal Data of 700 Million LinkedIn Users Put Up for Sale on Dark Web
Security researchers have reported that the user data of a staggering 700 million LinkedIn users has been put up for sale on an underground hacker forum. This leak takes place hot on the heels of the mid-April leak... Read more
Crackonosh is a Windows Malware that Mines for Crypto
Security researchers have dug up a new strain of miner malware. This new and nasty bug is called Crackonosh and it force-reboots Windows machines in safe mode to execute and install without any interruptions. The... Read more
Opting Out of Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Test-Run
Google's Chrome browser has launched a new Privacy Sandbox trial, as part of the company's attempts to find a replacement or an alternative entity to the third-party cookie used in browsers. This test run called... Read more
Western Digital Devices Hit by New Vulnerability
The shock that thousands of users felt when they discovered their Western Digital My Book Live devices had been wiped clean in a destructive hack attack in late June is probably still fresh in their memory. Now... Read more
TrickBot Update Indicates Shifting Focus Back to Banking Fraud
TrickBot is a name that anyone who reads up on malware and security news must have ran across at some point in time. What originally started as the TrickBot banking trojan back in 2016 and was primarily used to steal... Read more
Lil' Skim, a Web Skimmer, Targets Online Vendors
Web skimmers are typically JavaScript-based. In order to plant the malicious script, the criminals behind it need to compromise the security of online vendors. Once an online marketplace's security has been... Read more
Western Digital My Book Live Devices Wiped Remotely by Hackers
The My Book Live is a networked attached storage device manufactured by data storage company Western Digital. Over the last few days, the Internet has been rife with warnings about attacks on My Book Live devices that... Read more
Millions of Dell Devices Exposed to Remote Attacks
Cyber security researchers recently published a report detailing four security issues with Dell devices. The estimation lists 30 million Dell endpoints that could suffer remote code execution and BIOS attacks. ZDNet... Read more
Ransomware Payment Legislation: What Makes Sense and What Does Not?
In recent years, ransomware attacks have become the single most lucrative branch of cyber crime. The biggest, most dangerous and most successful threat actors and strains of ransomware have generated dozens of... Read more
REvil Supply Chain Ransomware Attack Hits 200 US Companies
The cybercriminal group known as REvil and infamous for its ransomware activities executed another successful attack on a disturbing scale late last week. Security researchers with Huntress Labs stated they believe... Read more
Hackers Refine LinkedIn Scraped Data to Launch Targeted Attacks
Just a few days ago another massive LinkedIn user data dump posted on a hacking forum made headlines. Now the same data is being carefully organized and refined by threat actors to launch new, targeted attacks on... Read more
Europol Takes Down VPN Used by Ransomware Threat Actors
An underground VPN service used by hackers and ransomware groups to cover their tracks was taken down in a joint operation spearheaded by the Dutch police, assisted by a number of international authorities including... Read more
REvil Threat Actor Group Executes Two New Attacks
Ransomware threat actor group REvil seems to have pulled off two new successful attacks, according to reports. The first of the two latest victims of the hackers is a fashion clothing company called French Connection... Read more
What is Gitcdn.xyz?
Seeing a warning about Gitcdn.xyz from your antivirus or firewall recently? But do you know what is Gitcdn.xyz, and whether there is a reason to worry that your computer tried to connect to it? The short answer is... Read more
