Tag: security

New Zealand’s stock exchange (NZX) has been impacted by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack during the last two days, forcing it to shut down trading until the connectivity issues were resolved. […]

The FBI thwarted the plans of 27-year-old Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov to recruit an insider in a Nevada company, persuade him to plant malware on their network, and then ransom the company under threat that he would leak data stolen from their systems. […]

Conti ransomware, the successor of the notorious Ryuk, has released a data leak site as part of their extortion strategy to force victims into paying a ransom. […]

While it wasn’t a big week for new ransomware variants, we did learn about some ransomware attacks against very large organizations. […]

Freepik says that hackers were able to steal emails and password hashes for 8.3M Freepik and Flaticon users in an SQL injection attack against the company’s Flaticon website. […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint advisory warning teleworkers of an ongoing vishing campaign targeting entities from multiple US industry sectors. […]

Hackers are actively targeting and trying to exploit SQL injection, authorization issues, and unauthenticated stored cross-site scripting (XSS) security vulnerabilities in the Discount Rules for WooCommerce WordPress plugin with more than 30,000 installations. […]