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Russia and China left out of global anti-ransomware meetings

The White House National Security Council facilitates virtual meetings this week with senior officials and ministers from more than 30 countries in a virtual international counter-ransomware event to rally allies in the fight against the ransomware threat. […]

13 Oct

OVH hosting provider goes down during planned maintenance

OVH, the largest hosting provider in Europe and the third-largest in the world, went down earlier today following what looks like routing configuration issues during a planned maintenance. […]

12 Oct

Study reveals Android phones constantly snoop on their users

A new study by a team of university researchers in the UK has unveiled a host of privacy issues that arise from using Android smartphones. […]

12 Oct

SnapMC hackers skip file encryption and just steal your files

A new actor tracked as SnapMC has emerged in the cybercrime space, performing the typical data-stealing extortion that underpins ransomware operations, but without doing any file encryption. […]

12 Oct

Microsoft revokes insecure SSH keys for Azure DevOps customers

Microsoft revoked insecure SSH keys some Azure DevOps have generated using a GitKraken git GUI client version impacted by an underlying issue found in one of its dependencies. […]

12 Oct

Olympus US systems hit by cyberattack over the weekend

Olympus, a leading medical technology company, was forced to take down IT systems in the Americas (U.S., Canada and Latin America) following a cyberattack that hit its network Sunday, on October 10, 2021. […]

12 Oct

Microsoft: Azure customer hit by record DDoS attack in August

Microsoft has mitigated a record 2.4 Tbps (terabits per second) Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack targeting an European Azure customer during the last week of August. […]

11 Oct

Nuclear engineer’s espionage plans unraveled by undercover FBI agent

A Navy nuclear engineer and his wife were arrested under espionage-related charges alleging violations of the Atomic Energy Act after selling restricted nuclear-powered warship design data to a person they believed was a foreign power agent. […]

11 Oct

Pacific City Bank discloses ransomware attack claimed by AvosLocker

Pacific City Bank (PCB), one of the largest Korean-American community banking service providers in America, has disclosed a ransomware incident that took place last month. […]

11 Oct

Windows 11 incompatible with apps using non-ASCII registry keys

Microsoft is blocking Windows 11 upgrades if customers use applications that create registry keys using some non-ASCII characters. […]