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The Week in Ransomware – April 9th 2021 – Massive ransom demands

Ransomware attacks continue over the past two weeks with a continuation of the massive initial ransom demands we have seen recently. […]

09 Apr

FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS bomb attack

The FBI arrested a Texas man on Thursday for allegedly planning to “kill of about 70% of the internet” in a bomb attack targeting an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center on Smith Switch Road in Ashburn, Virginia. […]

09 Apr

Leading cosmetics group Pierre Fabre hit with $25 million ransomware attack

Leading French pharmaceutical group Pierre Fabre suffered a REvil ransomware attack where the threat actors initially demanded a $25 million ransom, BleepingComputer learned today. […]

09 Apr

Attackers deliver legal threats, IcedID malware via contact forms

Threat actors are using legitimate corporate contact forms to send phishing emails that threaten enterprise targets with lawsuits and attempt to infect them with the IcedID info-stealing malware. […]

09 Apr

World’s largest pathologists association discloses credit card incident

The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) disclosed a payment card incident that impacted customers who entered payment info on its e-commerce website. […]

08 Apr

Google Chrome blocks a new port to stop NAT Slipstreaming attacks

Google Chrome is now blocking HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP access to TCP port 10080 to prevent the ports from being abused in NAT Slipstreaming 2.0 attacks. […]

08 Apr

Over 600,000 stolen credit cards leaked after Swarmshop hack

The hacking spree targeting underground marketplaces has claimed another victim as a database from card shop Swarmshop emerged on another forum. […]

08 Apr

Belden says health benefits data stolen in 2020 cyberattack

Belden has disclosed that additional data was accessed and copied during their November 2020 cyberattack related to employees’ healthcare benefits and family members covered under their plan. […]

08 Apr

Microsoft releases a cyberattack simulator – Shall we play a game?

Microsoft has released an open-source cyberattack simulator that allows security researchers and data scientists to create simulated network environments and see how they fare against AI-controlled cyber agents. […]

08 Apr

Windows 10 hacked again at Pwn2Own, Chrome and Zoom also fall

Contestants hacked Microsoft’s Windows 10 OS twice during the second day of the Pwn2Own 2021 competition, together with the Google Chrome web browser and the Zoom video communication platform. […]

Author: We Fix PC

The Week in Ransomware – April 9th 2021 – Massive ransom demands

FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS bomb attack

Leading cosmetics group Pierre Fabre hit with $25 million ransomware attack

Attackers deliver legal threats, IcedID malware via contact forms

World’s largest pathologists association discloses credit card incident

Google Chrome blocks a new port to stop NAT Slipstreaming attacks

Over 600,000 stolen credit cards leaked after Swarmshop hack

Belden says health benefits data stolen in 2020 cyberattack

Microsoft releases a cyberattack simulator – Shall we play a game?

Windows 10 hacked again at Pwn2Own, Chrome and Zoom also fall