Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Spreading Emotet Malware
Microsoft today released its final Patch Tuesday rollout of 2021 with 67 security fixes, one of which patched a zero-day vulnerability spreading Emotet malware and five of which are...
Ransomware Hits Virginia Legislative Agencies
Virginia legislative agencies and commissions were forced to shut down their computer systems and websites due to a ransomware attack that started on Sunday, local news sources report.
The incident...
Propane Gas Distributor Hit With Ransomware
Propane gas distributor Superior Plus Corp. today disclosed that it was a victim of a ransomware attack on Dec. 12.
Superior, which supplies more than 780,000 customers in the US...
Attackers Target Log4J to Drop Ransomware, Web Shells, Backdoors
Threat actors, including at least one nation-state actor, are attempting to exploit the newly disclosed Log4j flaw to deploy ransomware, remote access Trojans, and Web shells on vulnerable systems....
40% of Corporate Networks Targeted by Attackers Seeking to Exploit Log4j
Early concerns about the Log4j vulnerability posing one of the biggest threats to Internet security in recent memory are quickly being confirmed with exploits and exploit activity targeting the...
Volvo Confirms R&D Data Stolen in Breach
Volvo Cars has confirmed a limited amount of its R&D property was stolen when a third party illegally accessed one of its file repositories.
There may have been an impact...
Name That Toon: Modern-Day Frosty
Who says you can't teach an old snowman new tricks? Now we need the perfect caption for the above cartoon. And for that we turn to you, Dark Reading...
Bug-Bounty Programs Shift Focus to Most Critical Flaws
The market for independent vulnerability research took off in 2021, with the volume of bug bounties rising by more than a third and total bounties paid surging to nearly...
Russian National Sentenced for Role in Kelihos Botnet
Russian national Oleg Koshkin has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for operating a "crypting" service used to conceal the Kelihos botnet from antivirus software, enabling attackers to...
Security Experts Sound Alarm on Zero-Day in Widely Used Log4j Tool
Security experts are sounding the equivalent of a five-alarm fire on a critical new zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a logging framework that is ubiquitously present in Java software.
The flaw...
