Computer Security
Microsoft Tracks New Malware Campaign Using Call Center Scam
Security researchers with Microsoft's cybersecurity division are warning the public about a new two-staged malware attack that ultimately seeks to deploy ransomware on the victim's system. The threat actors running... Read more
Weird Malware Blocks Victims from Accessing Pirated Software Sites
Security researchers with Sophos recently tracked and documented one of the most unusual malware campaigns in a very long time. This weird new malware is not trying to scrape all your login information from your... Read more
PuzzleMaker Gang Abused Google Chrome Zero-day in April
A newly identified cybercrime organization has been targeting Google Chrome with a zero-day exploit, which abuses a Remote code Execution (RCE) vulnerability. Thankfully, the exploit was patched back in April 2021, so... Read more
New York Subway Hit by Cyberattack with Alleged Chinese Origins
As reported by the New York Times, the NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) published documents disclosing a cyberattack on the IT infrastructure of the New York subway. According to the report, a... Read more
Malware Exploits Zero-Day Vulnerability to Capture Screenshots on Macs
Security researchers have discovered that a malware that has been around since 2020 is now abusing zero-day vulnerabilities in MacOS to take control of the media recording capabilities of MacOS systems. The malware in... Read more
The Fbi Moneypak Virus Now Affects Mac OS X
The ransomware known as the Fbi Moneypak virus has been around for quite some time. After initially targeting victims running Windows, the malware has since evolved to target Mac users as well. The first instances of... Read more
NVidia Jetson SoC Vulnerabilities Expose Devices to Data Theft
Last Friday chipmaker NVidia released patches addressing a range of vulnerabilities and bugs in the company's Jetson system on chip (SoC) framework. The company issues a security bulletin on April 18, publishing the... Read more
North Korean Hackers Believed to be Involved in Breach of South Korean Nuclear Institute
According to reports, a high-profile North Korean hacker group was involved in a security breach affecting a nuclear research institute located in South Korea. According to information disclosed by South Korean... Read more
Newly Formed Federal Unit Recovers Part of Colonial Pipeline Ransom
In a surprising turn of events, the US Department of Justice announced that it was able to recover the better part of the ransom payment that Colonial Pipeline was forced to make in the wake of the ransomware attack... Read more
World's Biggest Meat Supplier Company Hit by Ransomware
JBS, one of the world's biggest food supplier companies and the single biggest meat supplier in the world, became the victim of a ransomware attack. The company expressed the belief that the attack originated from an... Read more
Newly Spotted Agrius APT Targets Entities in Israel and UAE
Agrius APT is a newly identified attack group whose activities have been closely tracked since 2020. The primary target of the criminals appears to be Israel-based citizens and companies, and there is strong evidence... Read more
What Exactly Is Personal Data
Personal data and personally identifiable information are two very terms you will run into very often these days. With data breaches, phising attacks and malicious software such as banking Trojans, the dangers related... Read more
New Covid-Related Phishing Campaign Spreads Agent Tesla RAT
Even though an increasingly larger part of the world's population is getting vaccinated for Covid-19 and the global hysteria that had gripped the world in the first half of 2020 is now gradually dying down and life is... Read more
Security Experts Predict 65,000 Ransomware Attacks in 2021
In a recent interview for Yahoo Finance, a security expert predicted that there will be over 65,000 ransomware attacks, targeting just US companies. The estimate comes from John Chambers, former CEO of cyber security... Read more
Internet CDN Firm Scrambles to Fix Worldwide Outage
Fastly, a US-based firm serving content delivery services and acting as a CDN network, suffered an outage on a part of its platform, which led to issues with websites and accessing the Internet in general in a number... Read more
MobileInter Online Skimming Campaign Goes After Mobile Users
Online skimming campaigns have been gaining popularity eversince the MageCart group launched one of the largest attacks of this sort. One of the latest skimming campaigns to grab the attention of cybersecurity... Read more
CryptoCore Criminal Group Has Been Targeting Cryptocurrency Exchanges for 3 Years
Cryptocurrency users and exchanges have been targeted by cybercriminals over the past couple of years. While some of the attacks are carried out by low-level criminals, there are also multiple large-scale campaigns... Read more
Mac Computer Restarting with Error Message - Causes And Fixes
Sometimes even a stable Mac computer that has been working perfectly fine and with no major issues may run into seemingly random problems. You may run into what feels like random reboots accompanied by either a crash... Read more
