19 Oct FBI warns of fake govt sites used to steal financial, personal data The FBI warned the US public that threat actors actively use fake and spoofed unemployment benefit websites to harvest sensitive financial and personal information from unsuspecting victims. […]
18 Oct Microsoft asks admins to patch PowerShell to fix WDAC bypass Microsoft has asked system administrators to patch PowerShell 7 against two vulnerabilities allowing attackers to bypass Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) enforcements and gain access to plain text credentials. […]
18 Oct Credit card PINs can be guessed even when covering the ATM pad Researchers have proven it’s possible to train a special-purpose deep-learning algorithm that can guess 4-digit card PINs 41% of the time, even if the victim is covering the pad with their hands. […]
18 Oct Sinclair TV stations crippled by weekend ransomware attack TV stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group broadcast television company went down over the weekend across the US, with multiple sources telling BleepingComputer the downtime was caused by a ransomware attack. […]
15 Oct The Week in Ransomware – October 15th 2021 – Disrupting ransoms This week, senior officials from over thirty countries held virtual conferences on disrupting ransomware operations and attacks. […]
15 Oct US links $5.2 billion worth of Bitcoin transactions to ransomware The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has identified roughly $5.2 billion worth of outgoing Bitcoin transactions likely tied to the top 10 most commonly reported ransomware variants. […]
15 Oct Twitch downplays this month’s hack, says it had minimal impact In an update regarding this month’s security incident, Twitch downplayed the breach saying that it had minimal impact and it only affected a small number of users. […]
15 Oct Accenture confirms data breach after August ransomware attack Global IT consultancy giant Accenture confirmed that LockBit ransomware operators stole data from its systems during an attack that hit the company’s systems in August 2021. […]
15 Oct Russian cybercrime gang targets finance firms with stealthy macros A new phishing campaign dubbed MirrorBlast is deploying weaponized Excel documents that are extremely difficult to detect to compromise financial service organizations […]
15 Oct Governments worldwide to crack down on ransomware payment channels Senior officials from 31 countries and the European Union said that their governments would take action to disrupt the cryptocurrency payment channels used by ransomware gangs to finance their operations. […]