Tag: security

There have been some interesting developments in ransomware this week, with the arrest of a cybercrime ring leader and reports shedding light on two new, but up-and-coming,  ransomware operations. […]

Security researchers found vulnerabilities in the encryption mechanism of the Zeppelin ransomware and exploited them to create a working decryptor they used since 2020 to help victim companies recover files without paying the attackers. […]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged ten defendants for their alleged involvement in business email compromise (BEC) schemes targeting numerous victims across the country, including U.S. federal funding programs like Medicare and Medicaid. […]

State-backed Chinese hackers launched a spearphishing campaign to deliver custom malware stored in Google Drive to government, research, and academic organizations worldwide. […]

Threat actors are abusing Google’s Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio) to boost search engine rankings for their illicit websites that promote spam, torrents, and pirated content. […]

Atlassian has released updates to address critical-severity updates in its centralized identity management platform, Crowd Server and Data Center, and in Bitbucket Server and Data Center, the company’s solution for Git repository management. […]

A sophisticated phishing kit has been targeting North Americans since mid-September, using lures focused on holidays like Labor Day and Halloween. […]

A previously unknown ‘ARCrypter’ ransomware that compromised key organizations in Latin America is now expanding its attacks worldwide. […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today that the notorious Hive ransomware gang has successfully extorted roughly $100 million from over a thousand companies since June 2021. […]