Tag: security

The number of daily brute-force attacks against Windows remote desktop service has almost doubled during the pandemic lockdown, telemetry data shows. […]

The Australian government released an advisory late last week about increased cyber activity from a state actor against networks belonging to its agencies and companies in the country. […]

GeoVision, a Taiwanese fingerprint scanner, access control, and surveillance tech manufacturer, fixed critical vulnerabilities in their devices that could be abused by hackers and nation-state threat actors. […]

A simple VBScript may be enough to allow users to gain administrative privileges and bypass UAC entirely on Windows 10. […]

Russian national Sergey Medvedev, one of the co-founders of Internet-based cybercriminal enterprise Infraud Organization and an admin on the organization’s carding forum, today pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy. […]

A 30-year old Russian national named Aleksey Yurievich Burkov was sentenced today to nine years in prison for running Cardplanet and Direct Connection, two sites that facilitated payment card fraud, computer hacking, and other cybercrimes. […]

A 22-year-old Washington man was sentenced to 13 months in prison for renting and developing Mirai and Qbot-based DDoS botnets used in DDoS attacks against targets from all over the world. […]

Ransomware has been busy this week with new features being discovered, big name victims, and new ransomware campaigns being discovered. […]

Asian media firm E27 has been hacked, and attackers ask for a small “donation” to provide information on the vulnerabilities used in the attack. […]