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Ukraine links data-wiping attack on news agency to Russian hackers

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has linked a destructive malware attack targeting the country’s national news agency (Ukrinform) to Sandworm Russian military hackers. […]

18 Jan

Illegal Solaris darknet market hijacked by competitor Kraken

Solaris, a large darknet marketplace focused on drugs and illegal substances, has been taken over by a smaller competitor named ‘Kraken,’ who claims to have hacked it on January 13, 2022. […]

18 Jan

Avast releases free BianLian ransomware decryptor

Security software company Avast has released a free decrypter for the BianLian ransomware strain to help victims of the malware restore their files without paying a ransom. […]

17 Jan

Git patches two critical remote code execution security flaws

Git has patched two critical severity security vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code after successfully exploiting heap-based buffer overflow weaknesses. […]

17 Jan

Hackers turn to Google search ads to push info-stealing malware

Hackers are setting up fake websites for popular free and open-source software to promote malicious downloads through advertisements in Google search results. […]

17 Jan

Hackers can use GitHub Codespaces to host and deliver malware

GitHub Codespaces, a cloud-hosted integrated development environment (IDE), has a port forwarding feature that malicious actors can abuse to host and distribute malware to unaware developers. […]

17 Jan

Over 4,000 Sophos Firewall devices vulnerable to RCE attacks

Over 4,000 Sophos Firewall devices exposed to Internet access are vulnerable to attacks targeting a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. […]

16 Jan

Researchers to release PoC exploit for critical Zoho RCE bug, patch now

Proof-of-concept exploit code will be released later this week for a critical vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) without authentication in several VMware products. […]

16 Jan

MSI accidentally breaks Secure Boot for hundreds of motherboards

Over 290 MSI motherboards are reportedly affected by an insecure default UEFI Secure Boot setting settings that allows any operating system image to run regardless of whether it has a wrong or missing signature. […]

16 Jan

Vice Society ransomware leaks University of Duisburg-Essen’s data

The Vice Society ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the November 2022 cyberattack that forced the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) to reconstruct its IT infrastructure, a process that’s still ongoing. […]

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Ukraine links data-wiping attack on news agency to Russian hackers

Illegal Solaris darknet market hijacked by competitor Kraken

Avast releases free BianLian ransomware decryptor

Git patches two critical remote code execution security flaws

Hackers turn to Google search ads to push info-stealing malware

Hackers can use GitHub Codespaces to host and deliver malware

Over 4,000 Sophos Firewall devices vulnerable to RCE attacks

Researchers to release PoC exploit for critical Zoho RCE bug, patch now

MSI accidentally breaks Secure Boot for hundreds of motherboards

Vice Society ransomware leaks University of Duisburg-Essen’s data