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The recent wave of ransom attacks on MongoDB databases happened because database owners forgot to set passwords on their administrator accounts, according to Davi Ottenheimer, Senior Director of Product Security at MongoDB, Inc. “We have been monitoring the situation closely to help investigate and provide assistance,” Ottenheimer wrote in a blog post. “We’ve reviewed these […]

A malware group is using Facebook’s CDN servers to store malicious files that it later uses to infect users with banking trojans. Researchers spotted several campaigns using Facebook’s CDN servers in the last two weeks, and previously, the same group also used Dropbox and Google’s cloud storage services to store the same malicious payloads. The […]

We have good news for once, which is a really slow week when it comes to ransomware. While we still had our share of smaller ransomware variants being release, overall there was not a lot of activity. The biggest activity is the continued by Locky distributors to become more widespread through the use of a […]

Equifax — one of the largest providers of consumer credit reporting and other financial services in the US — said last night it was the victim of a hack during which attackers made off with details on over 143 million of its customers. While the amount of stolen data is impressive in its size alone, […]

Over the past two days, there was an increase in activity from a relatively unknown ransomware strain named SynAck, according to victims who sought assistance in the Bleeping Computer ransomware support forums and from submissions to the ID-Ransomware service. This particular ransomware strain — named SynAck or Syn Ack — was first spotted on August 3 […]