Tag: security

The Kyoto University in Japan has lost about 77TB of research data due to an error in the backup system of its Hewlett-Packard supercomputer. […]

Korean researchers have developed a set of attacks against some solid-state drives (SSDs) that could allow planting malware in a location that’s beyond the reach of the user and security solutions. […]

The Twitter account previously associated with the ANOM chat app is posting frivolous tweets this week. ANOM was a fake encrypted messaging platform created as part of a global sting operation led by the U.S. FBI, Australian Federal Police (AFP), and other law enforcement agencies to catch criminals. […]

The number of malicious dormant domains is on the rise, and as researchers warn, roughly 22.3% of strategically aged domains pose some form of danger. […]

The AvosLocker ransomware operation provided a free decryptor after learning they encrypted a US government agency. […]

T-Mobile confirmed that recent reports of a new data breach are linked to notifications sent to a “very small number of customers” that they fell victim to SIM swap attacks. […]

One of the largest Vietnamese crypto trading platforms, ONUS, recently suffered a cyber attack on its payment system running a vulnerable Log4j version. Soon enough, threat actors approached ONUS to extort $5 million and threatened to publish customer data should ONUS refuse to comply. […]

Apache has released another Log4j version, 2.17.1 fixing a newly discovered remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in 2.17.0, tracked as CVE-2021-44832. Prior to today, 2.17.0 was the most recent version of Log4j and deemed the safest release to upgrade to, but that advice has now evolved. […]

The cyber-espionage APT (advanced persistent threat) group tracked as ‘BlackTech’ was spotted using a novel malware called ‘Flagpro’ in attacks against Japanese firms. […]