19 Oct FBI warns of newly registered domains spoofing US Census Bureau The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a flash alert to warn of the potential use of spoofed US Census Bureau domains in future malicious campaigns including phishing and credential theft attacks. […]
19 Oct US indicts Russian GRU ‘Sandworm’ hackers for NotPetya, worldwide attacks The U.S. Department of Justice has charged six Russian intelligence operatives for hacking operations related to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the 2017 French elections, and the notorious NotPetya ransomware attack. […]
18 Oct Watch out for Emotet malware’s new ‘Windows Update’ attachment The Emotet botnet has begun to use a new malicious attachment that pretends to be a message from Windows Update telling you to upgrade Microsoft Word. […]
17 Oct Hackers now abuse BaseCamp for free malware hosting Phishing campaigns have started to use Basecamp as part of malicious phishing campaigns that distribute malware or steal your login credentials. […]
17 Oct The Windows 10 Calculator has been ported to Linux The Windows 10 Calculator has been ported to Linux and can be installed from the Canonical Snap Store. […]
16 Oct The Week in Ransomware – October 16th 2020 – The weekend is upon us Ransomware continues to target government entities and the enterprise, while victims quietly pay ransoms that power this cycle of attacks. […]
16 Oct Nation-state actor hit Google with the largest DDoS attack In an overview of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) trends targeting its network links, Google revealed that in 2017 a nation-state actor used massive firepower that amounted to more than 2.7 terabits per second. […]
16 Oct Google warned users of 33,000 state-sponsored attacks in 2020 Google delivered over 33,000 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of state-sponsored phishing attacks targeting their accounts. […]
16 Oct ThunderX Ransomware rebrands as Ranzy Locker, adds data leak site ThunderX has changed its name to Ranzy Locker and launched a data leak site where they shame victims who do not pay the ransom. […]
16 Oct Microsoft issues out-of-band Windows security updates for RCE bugs Microsoft has released two out-of-band security updates designed to address remote code execution (RCE) bugs found to affect Visual Studio Code and the Microsoft Windows Codecs Library. […]