Mēris Botnet is the Perpetrator Behind the DDoS Attack that Hit Yandex
A new botnet dubbed Mēris has launched a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Russian internet company Yandex. The botnet...
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Revil ransomware operators are targeting new victims
Recently we observed that part of the REvil ransomware infrastructure was up and running again, now we can confirm that...
Security Affairs newsletter Round 331
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free...
Cisco released security patches for High-Severity flaws in IOS XR software
Cisco fixed multiple high-severity flaws in the IOS XR software that can allow attackers to trigger a DoS condition, elevate...
Ukraine legalized cryptocurrency
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the bill "On virtual assets", which will legalize cryptocurrency and virtual hryvnia.The bill on...
School Childrens’ Personal Information on Dark Web: Potential Identity Theft
NBC News, an American broadcaster has published a report on the data theft of millions of school children and how...
Virginia Defense Force Email Accounts Hit by a Cyber Attack
In July, a hacker invaded the email accounts of the Virginia Military Department and the Virginia Defense Force, told a...
UN Computer Networks Breached by Hackers Earlier This Year
Hackers breached the United Nations' computer network and stole data, according to researchers at cybersecurity firm Resecurity, According to Bloomberg, the...
Spook.js: Chrome is Threatened by a New Spectre Like Attack
A newly found side-channel attack targeting Google Chrome might allow an attacker to use a Spectre-style attack to bypass the...
New SOVA Android Banking trojan is rapidly growing
SOVA is a new Android banking trojan that targets banking applications, cryptocurrency wallets, and shopping apps from the U.S. and...
Microsoft fixes Azurescape flaw in Azure Container Instances
Microsoft has fixed the Azurescape issue, a flaw in Azure Container Instances that allows to take over containers of other...
That’s the way the cookie banner crumbles?
Elizabeth Denham, current head of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection watchdog and the organization tasked to...
Facebook puts on Ray-Bans, struts into the privacy minefield of smart glasses
Facebook, neck-deep in virtual / augmented reality with the Oculus headset, continues to move things up a gear. It’s announced...
Gamers beware: The risks of Real Money Trading (RMT) explained
Any game with an online component can be at risk from a practice known as Real Money Trading (RMT), where...
The Future Comes With Promising Edge Technology, Say Experts
The huge amount of data continuously collected via billions of sensors and devices that comprise the IoT can pose a...
Beware of New Advance Fee Fraud Scheme Targeting Cryptocurrency Users
Researchers at Proofpoint have detected a new series of email fraud campaigns trying to lure potential victims with the promise...
Ragnar Locker to Publish Victims Data if They Approach FBI
The ransomware gang Ragnar Locker implements a new strategy, which forces victims to pay the ransom and threatens to expose...
SEC: Stay Vigilant Against Cryptocurrency Related Frauds
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has released a new alert that fresh illegal schemes are targeting digital assets. According to...
Hackers Steal Data of 40,000 Patients From a Kidney Hospital in Thailand
On Wednesday, Thirachai Chantharotsiri, director of Bhumirajanagarindra Kidney Institute Hospital lodged a complaint that the personal information of over 40,000...
Grayfly APT uses recently discovered Sidewalk backdoor
Security researchers from Broadcom’s Symantec linked a previously undocumented backdoor to the Chinese Grayfly operation. Experts from Broadcom’s Symantec linked...
Experts confirmed that the networks of the United Nations were hacked earlier this year
The United Nations this week confirmed that its computer networks were hit by a cyberattack earlier this year, as first...
International money launderer sentenced to more than 11 years
A Canadian man, who helped North Korean threat actors to launder stolen funds, plead guilty to laundering tens of millions...
A new botnet named Mēris is behind massive DDoS attack that hit Yandex
The massive DDoS attack that has been targeting the internet giant Yandex was powered b a completely new botnet tracked...
500,000 Fortinet VPN credentials exposed: Turn off, patch, reset passwords
A threat actor has leaked a list of almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN credentials, stolen from 87,000 vulnerable FortiGate SSL-VPN devices....
