Month: July 2019

An app styling itself as a more feature-rich unofficial version of Telegram was installed over 100,000 from Google Play only to provide minimum messaging services and to promote malicious websites. […]

The data breach monitoring service Haveibeenpwned.com has added a database dump of almost 101 million Evite users who had their information exposed when attackers gained unauthorized access to their servers. […]

A critical security issue found in the Ad Inserter WordPress plugin currently installed on over 200,000 websites allows authenticated attackers to remotely execute PHP code. […]

Malware researchers have discovered a new file-encrypting malware they dubbed DoppelPaymer that has been making victims since at least mid-June, asking hundreds of thousands of US dollars in ransom. […]

Another public administration in the U.S. surrenders cybercriminal demands as La Porte County, Indiana, pays $130,000 to recover data on computer systems impacted by ransomware. […]

Following recent reports about mass-scale attacks aimed at modifying Domain Name System records, UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released an advisory with mitigation options for organizations to defend against this type of threat. […]

If you read the news, it’s hard not to see that ransomware is far from dead and may be worse then ever. Emboldened by large government payouts, ransomware developers are increasingly targeting cities, the enterprise, and charities where they can create large scale damage and thus potentially large-scale ransom payments. […]