February 2023 - Page 12 of 13

Bermuda hit by widespread internet outage amid power cut

Bermuda experienced a widespread power outage on Friday which impacted the island’s internet and phone services. Calling it a “serious incident” at BELCO, the Bermudian power supplier, the government has advised customers to “unplug all sensitive electrical equipment” as crews work around the clock on restoration efforts. […]

03 Feb

The Week in Ransomware – February 3rd 2023 – Ending with a mess

While the week started slowly, it turned into a big ransomware mess, with attacks striking a big blow at businesses running VMware ESXi servers. […]

03 Feb

TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate confirm data breach affecting 20M customers

PeopleConnect, the owners of the TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate background check services, confirmed they suffered a data breach after hackers leaked a 2019 backup database containing the info of millions of customers. […]

03 Feb

Massive ESXiArgs ransomware attack targets VMware ESXi servers worldwide

Admins, hosting providers, and the French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) warn that attackers actively target VMware ESXi servers unpatched against a two-year-old remote code execution vulnerability to deploy ransomware. […]

03 Feb

Florida hospital takes IT systems offline after cyberattack

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) has taken its IT systems offline and suspended non-emergency procedures following a late Thursday cyberattack. […]

03 Feb

GoAnywhere MFT zero-day vulnerability lets hackers breach servers

The developers of the GoAnywhere MFT file transfer solution are warning customers of zero-day remote code execution vulnerability on exposed administrator consoles. […]

03 Feb

Atlassian warns of critical Jira Service Management auth flaw

A critical vulnerability in Atlassian’s Jira Service Management Server and Data Center could allow an unauthenticated attacker to impersonate other users and gain remote access to the systems. […]

02 Feb

Google ads push ‘virtualized’ malware made for antivirus evasion

An ongoing Google ads malvertising campaign is spreading malware installers that leverage KoiVM virtualization technology to evade detection when installing the Formbook data stealer. […]

02 Feb

Microsoft 365 trial offer blocks access to Windows 10 desktops

Windows 10 users are reportedly being blocked from accessing their desktops by full-screen trial offers for the Microsoft 365 productivity suite (formerly Office 365). […]

02 Feb

Hackers weaponize Microsoft Visual Studio add-ins to push malware

Security researchers warn that hackers may start using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) more often as method to achieve persistence and execute code on a target machine via malicious Office add-ins. […]

Month: February 2023

Bermuda hit by widespread internet outage amid power cut

The Week in Ransomware – February 3rd 2023 – Ending with a mess

TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate confirm data breach affecting 20M customers

Massive ESXiArgs ransomware attack targets VMware ESXi servers worldwide

Florida hospital takes IT systems offline after cyberattack

GoAnywhere MFT zero-day vulnerability lets hackers breach servers

Atlassian warns of critical Jira Service Management auth flaw

Google ads push ‘virtualized’ malware made for antivirus evasion

Microsoft 365 trial offer blocks access to Windows 10 desktops

Hackers weaponize Microsoft Visual Studio add-ins to push malware