FBI and Australia ACSC agencies warn of ongoing Avaddon ransomware attacks
The FBI and Australian Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warn of an ongoing Avaddon ransomware campaign targeting organizations worldwide. The...
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FBI confirmed that Darkside ransomware gang hit Colonial Pipeline
The U.S. FBI confirmed that the attack against the Colonial Pipeline over the weekend was launched by the Darkside ransomware...
Alleviating ransomware’s legal headaches with Jake Bernstein: Lock and Code S02E08
This week on Lock and Code, we speak to cybersecurity and privacy attorney Jake Bernstein about ransomware attacks that don’t...
Ransomware attack shuts down Colonial Pipeline fuel supply
UPDATE 10:47 AM Pacific Time, May 10: At 8:55 AM Pacific Time, the FBI confirmed that Colonial Pipeline was attacked...
A week in security (May 3 – 9)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we discussed how Spectre attacks have come back from the dead; why Facebook banned Instragram...
Sloppiness of Student Allows Ryuk Ransomware to Target Bio Research Institute
Cybersecurity vendor Sophos has revealed how using a 'crack' version of a data visualization tool was the cause of a...
Russian Actors Change Techniques After UK and US Agencies Expose Them
After the western agencies outed their techniques, Russian actors from the APT29 group responded to the expose by using a...
CaptureRx Ransomware Hit Multiple Healthcare Provider Clients
CaptureRx, a world-leading San Antonio-based Healthcare technology organization has recently witnessed a ransomware attack wherein hackers accessed the protected health...
Vulnerabilities Exposed Pelton User Data
Special security research published this week, states that unauthorized users might have been able to access confidential user information through...
Colonial Hackers Stole Data on Thursday Ahead of Shutdown
The hackers who caused Colonial Pipeline to shut down the biggest US petrol pipeline last Friday began their blitz against...
DDoS attacks in Q1 2021
News overview Q1 2021 saw the appearance of two new botnets. News broke in January of the FreakOut malware, which...
City of Tulsa, is the last US city hit by ransomware attack
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend that impacted its government’s network...
Threat actors added thousands of Tor exit nodes to carry out SSL stripping attacks
Since early 2020, bad actors have added Tor exit nodes to the Tor network to intercep traffic to cryptocurrency-related sites...
WhatsApp will not deactivate accounts for not accepting new privacy terms
WhatsApp will not deactivate the accounts of users who don’t accept the new privacy policy update that requires sharing data...
CISA MAR report provides technical details of FiveHands Ransomware
U.S. CISA has published an analysis of the FiveHands ransomware, the same malware that was analyzed a few days ago...
‘XcodeGhost’ Malware Infected Around 128M iOS Users
In a recent malware attack over 128 million iOS customers have been targeted. The malware employed by the attackers goes...
Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Top U.S. Fuel Pipeline Network
The operator of a major gasoline pipeline in the U.S. shut down operations late Friday following a ransomware attack pipeline...
Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach
The identities of over 200,000 people who appear to be participating in Amazon fraudulent product review schemes have been exposed...
A Russian specialist warned of the deadly dangers of the smartphone
The most frequently smartphones of the company Samsung are exploded. There are also known cases when Apple products exploded in...
SolarWinds Hack Alarms US Spy Agencies to Inspect Software Suppliers’ Ties with Russia
US intelligence agencies have started to study supply chain threats from Russia, a top official within the Justice Department confirmed...
SQL injection issue in Anti-Spam WordPress Plugin exposes User Data
‘Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk’ anti-spam WordPress plugin could expose user sensitive data to an unauthenticated attacker. A Time-Based...
Security Affairs newsletter Round 313
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for...
TsuNAME flaw exposes DNS servers to DDoS attacks
A flaw in some DNS resolvers, tracked as TsuNAME, can allow attackers to launch DDoS attacks against authoritative DNS servers....
A cyberattack shutdown US Colonial Pipeline
A cyberattack forced the shutdown of one of the largest pipelines in the United States, the Colonial Pipeline facility in...
