Trojanized Password Crackers Targeting Industrial Systems
Threat actors are targeting systems in industrial control environments with backdoor malware hidden in fake password-cracking tools. The tools, being touted for sale on a variety of social media...
Ransomware Attempts Flag as Payments Also Decline
Attempted ransomware attacks declined in the first quarter of 2022, as companies continued to be less likely to pay requested ransoms and the war between Russia and Ukraine disrupted...
Name That Toon: Modern-Day Fable
We provide the carrot — the chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card — and you provide a possible caption for the cartoon above. It's that simple (and...
WordPress Page Builder Plug-in Under Attack, Can’t Be Patched
Although the plug-in is no longer available, the Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons is still running on as many as 8,000 WordPress sites, according to analysts who warn...
Sandworm APT Trolls Researchers on Its Trail as It Targets Ukraine
The infamous Sandworm threat group operating out of Russia's military GRU unit has no qualms about taunting researchers when it finds it is being watched. Just ask Robert Lipovsky and...
Ex-CIA Programmer Found Guilty of Stealing Vault 7 Data, Giving It to Wikileaks
Joshua Schulte, a former CIA programmer, has been found guilty by a jury in a Manhattan, NY court for stealing the trove of classified data on US cyber espionage...
Netwrix Auditor Bug Could Lead to Active Directory Domain Compromise
Netwrix IT asset tracker and compliance auditor, used across more than 11,500 organizations, contains a critical Insecure Object Deserialization vulnerability that could lead to Active Directory domain compromise, a new...
DHS Review Board Deems Log4j an ‘Endemic’ Cyber Threat
The US Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has concluded that the Apache Log4j vulnerability disclosed in December 2021 will remain a significant risk to organizations...
Data Breaches Linked to Ransomware Declined in Q2 2022
Ransomware attacks leading to data breaches fell 20% in the second quarter of 2022 compared with the first quarter and dropped quarter over quarter, according to new data from the Identity Theft Resource Center.
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Is Cryptocurrency’s Crash Causing Headaches for Ransomware Gangs?
As the value of Bitcoin plunged in the last eight months, some security firms have observed an impact on ransomware activity.
Since the beginning of the year, for example,...
