Tag: security

Security analysts at ASEC have discovered a new wave of attacks targeting vulnerable Microsoft SQL servers, involving the deployment of a ransomware strain named FARGO. […]

American Airlines says its Cyber Security Response Team found out about a recently disclosed data breach from the targets of a phishing campaign that was using an employee’s hacked Microsoft 365 account. […]

This week we saw some embarrassment for the LockBit ransomware operation when their programmer leaked a ransomware builder for the LockBit 3.0 encryptor. […]

The City of London police announced on Twitter today the arrest of a British 17-year-old teen suspected of being involved in recent cyberattacks. […]

Sophos warned today that a critical code injection security vulnerability in the company’s Firewall product is being exploited in the wild. […]

Multiple npm packages published by the crypto exchange, dYdX, and used by at least 44 cryptocurrency projects, appear to have been compromised. Powered by the Ethereum blockchain, dydX is a decentralized exchange platform offering perpetual trading options for over 35 popular cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH). […]

The cyber department of Ukraine’s Security Service (SSU) has taken down a group of hackers that stole accounts of about 30 million individuals and sold them on the dark web. […]

Generating checksums—cryptographic hashes such as MD5 or SHA-256 functions for files is hardly anything new and one of the most efficient means to ascertain the integrity of a file, or to check if two files are identical. But a researcher has generated an image that visibly contains its own MD5 hash. […]