Ransomware Tactics, Techniques And How it Has Evolved
Ransomware Landscape Has Adapted and Evolved
Author: Kyle Fedorek
Ransomware attacks have increased manifold over the years and so have the ransom demands. This year-over-year evolution of ransomware threats is primarily...
Russian Military Hackers Sandworm Exploiting Mail Software Says NSA
By Sergiu Gatlan
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) says that Russian military threat actors known as Sandworm Team have been exploiting a critical flaw in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software...
Billions of Thai Internet Records Leaked
Over 8 billion real-time Internet records of users of Thailand’s largest cell network, Advanced Info Service (AIS), were leaked due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch database.
What happened
Security researcher Justin Paine...
WordPress Plugin PageLayer leaves 200k sites vulnerable
Author: Sergiu Gatlan
Two high severity security vulnerabilities found in the PageLayer plugin can let attackers to potentially wipe the contents or take over WordPress sites using vulnerable plugin versions.
PageLayer is a WordPress...
Netwalker Ransomware Proves Attackers Dont Need Cutting Edge Malware
Malware and related records show that ransomware administrators needn't bother with a bleeding edge weapons store to be viable.
A malware apparatus set and related documents that analysts at Sophos...
FBI Arrests Another Fin7 Member Tied to Billions of Dollars in Losses
The FBI has arrested another alleged member of the FIN7 cybercrime gang, which has been stealing millions of payment cards and other financial data since at least September 2015,...
Pakistan Telecom Firms Hit By Greenbug Hacking Group
For the past several months, suspected Iranian hackers have been rooting around the IT systems of at least three telecommunications companies in Pakistan, accessing data servers when it suits...
APT Group From Iran targets Governments In Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
Today, cybersecurity researchers shed light on an Iranian cyber espionage campaign directed against critical infrastructures in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Bitdefender said the intelligence-gathering operations were conducted by Chafer APT (also known...
EasyJet Brittish Airline Suffers Hack – 9 Million Customers Data Leaked
British low-cost airline EasyJet today admitted that the company has fallen victim to a cyber-attack, which it labeled "highly sophisticated," exposing email addresses and travel details of around 9 million of...
European Super Computers Hacked For Cryptojacking Scheme
Several high-performance computers (HPCs) and data centers used for research projects have been shut down this week across Europe due to security incidents.
About a dozen of these supercomputers are...