Month: April 2022

Virgil Griffith, a US cryptocurrency expert, was sentenced on Tuesday to 63 months in prison after pleading guilty to assisting the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) with technical info on how to evade sanctions. […]

Extortion denial-of-service activity, the so-called RDDoS (ransom distributed denial-of-service) attacks have taken a tumble in the first quarter of the year, according to recent statistics from Cloudflare. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal civilian agencies and urged all US organizations on Monday to patch an actively exploited bug impacting WatchGuard Firebox and XTM firewall appliances. […]

Developers are increasingly voicing their opinions through their open source projects in active use by thousands of software applications and organizations. Most recently, the developer of the ‘event-source-polyfill’ npm package peacefully protested Russia’s “unreasonable invasion” of Ukraine, to Russian consumers. […]

The Qbot botnet is now pushing malware payloads via phishing emails with password-protected ZIP archive attachments containing malicious MSI Windows Installer packages. […]

The Italian luxury fashion company Ermenegildo Zegna has disclosed a ransomware incident from August 2021 that has resulted in an extensive IT systems outage. […]