Perkiler malware turns to SMB brute force to spread
Researchers at Guardicore have identified a new infection vector being used by the Perkiler malware where internet-facing Windows machines are...
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Slack hurries to fix direct message flaw that allowed harassment
The enormous work messaging platform Slack quickly reversed course yesterday, promising to revise a brand-new direct message feature that could...
Anonymous Hackers reportedly exposed the anti-Russian activities of the British Council
The Anonymous hacker group published an analysis of documents belonging to various British government agencies, including the Foreign Office, according...
Personal Details of 6.5 Million Israeli Voters Leaked Online
A database with the names and ID numbers of all the eligible voters in Israel was leaked online by anonymous...
New Worm Capabilities Targets Windows Machines
A malware that has verifiably targeted exposed Windows machines through phishing and exploit kits have been retooled to add new...
Data From These Two Universities Stolen and Published Online by Clop Ransomware Group
The Clop ransomware group has officially published online the grades and social security numbers for students at the University of...
Threat landscape for industrial automation systems. Statistics for H2 2020
Figures Indicator H1 2020 H2 2020 2020 Global percentage of attacked ICS computers 32.6% 33.42% 38.55% Percentage of attacked ICS...
Attack vs. Data: What You Need to Know About Threat Hunting
Mitigate threats by going on the offensiveWhile the definition of threat hunting may be straightforward—proactively hunting for threats—the reality of...
The surge of fake COVID-19 test results, vaccines and vaccination certificates on the Dark Web
Threat actors are offering fake COVID-19 test results and vaccination certificates in blackmarkets and hacking forums on the Dark Web....
30 million Americans affected by the Astoria Company data breach
Researchers discovered the availability in the DarK Web of 30M of records of Americans affected by the Astoria Company data...
Cisco Jabber for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS is affected by a critical issue
Cisco has addressed a critical arbitrary program execution flaw in its Cisco Jabber client software for Windows, macOS, Android, and...
Software renewal scammers unmasked
We’ve been tracking a fraudulent scheme involving renewal notifications for several months now. It came to our attention because the...
GitHub Awards $25,000 Bug Bounty to the Google Employee
GitHub awarded $25,000 to the security researcher, Teddy Katz for discovering a bug and patching it. On March 17, bug...
Russia’s Central Bank has warned of hackers targeting banks’ mobile apps
The Central Bank of Russia has warned of the emergence of a group of hackers investigating vulnerabilities in banks' mobile...
Email Scam Under the Name of IRS Try to gain EFIN of Tax Preparers
A lot of people are familiar with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scam letters about the tax season that...
Rapid7 Recognized as a Strong Performer in the Inaugural Forrester Wave™ for MDR, Q1 2021
Independent research firm cites Rapid7 MDR’s “security professionals with extensive incident response and threat hunting experience” delivering a “white-glove, behavioral...
Billions of FBS Records Exposed in Online Trading Broker Data Leak
Ata Hakcil led the team of white hat hackers from WizCase in identifying a major data leak on online trading broker FBS’...
Black Kingdom ransomware is targeting Microsoft Exchange servers
Security experts reported that a second ransomware gang, named Black Kingdom, is targeting Microsoft Exchange servers. After the public disclosure...
A day before elections, hackers leaked details of millions of Israeli voters
Hackers have exposed personal and voter registration details of over 6.5 million Israeli voters, less than 24 hours before the...
92% of worldwide Microsoft Exchange IPs are now patched or mitigated
Microsoft revealed that 92% of all on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers exposed online affected by the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities are now patched....
Sierra Wireless halted production at its manufacturing sites due to ransomware attack
This week, IoT company Sierra Wireless disclosed a ransomware attack that hit its internal IT systems on March 20 and...
When contractors attack: two years in jail for vengeful IT admin
An IT contractor working for an IT consultancy company took it upon himself to perform an act of revenge against...
The human impact of a Royal Mail phishing scam
Last week, we looked at a Royal Mail themed scam which has very quickly become the weapon of choice for...
Taxpayers Personal Data Exposed Online in the UK
Different local councils in the UK have conveyed SMS to a huge number of citizens to encourage them to cover...
