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Kronos ransomware attack may cause weeks of HR solutions downtime

Workforce management solutions provider Kronos has suffered a ransomware attack that will likely disrupt many of their cloud-based solutions for weeks. […]

13 Dec

Attackers can get root by crashing Ubuntu’s AccountsService

A local privilege escalation security vulnerability could allow attackers to gain root access on Ubuntu systems by exploiting a double-free memory corruption bug in GNOME’s AccountsService component. […]

13 Dec

Bugs in billions of WiFi, Bluetooth chips allow password, data theft

Researchers at the University of Darmstadt, Brescia, CNIT, and the Secure Mobile Networking Lab, have published a paper that proves it’s possible to extract passwords and manipulate traffic on a WiFi chip by targeting a device’s Bluetooth component. […]

13 Dec

Ukraine arrests 51 for selling data of 300 million people in US, EU

Ukrainian law enforcement arrested 51 suspects believed to have been selling stolen personal data on hacking forums belonging to hundreds of millions worldwide, including Ukraine, the US, and Europe. […]

12 Dec

FTC: Americans lost $148 million to gift card scams this year

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Americans reported losing $148 million to gift card scams during the first nine months of 2021 following a major increase compared to last year. […]

11 Dec

Microsoft: These are the building blocks of QBot malware attacks

As QBot campaigns increase in size and frequency, researchers are looking into ways to break the trojan’s distribution chain and tackle the threat. […]

11 Dec

Amazon explains the cause behind Tuesday’s massive AWS outage

Amazon has published a post-event summary to shed some light on the root cause behind this week’s massive AWS outage that took down a long list of high-profile sites and online services, including Ring, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Roku. […]

11 Dec

Researchers release ‘vaccine’ for critical Log4Shell vulnerability

Researchers from cybersecurity firm Cybereason has released a “vaccine” that can be used to remotely mitigate the critical ‘Log4Shell’ Apache Log4j code execution vulnerability running rampant through the Internet. […]

11 Dec

The Week in Ransomware – December 10th 2021 – Project CODA

This week has quite a bit of ransomware news, including arrests, a new and sophisticated ransomware, and an attack bringing down 300 supermarkets in England. […]

10 Dec

Phishing attacks use QR codes to steal banking credentials

A new phishing campaign that targets German e-banking users has been underway in the last couple of weeks, involving QR codes in the credential-snatching process. […]