08 Oct Microsoft Blocks Credential Theft Attack Targeting Dozens of Orgs Roughly 100 organizations were targeted in a large scale spear-phishing attack during early July by a malspam campaign distributing LokiBot information stealer payloads. […]
08 Oct Researcher Adds $100,000 Worth of Credit to Voi E-Scooter App A Swedish security enthusiast was able to take advantage of some weaknesses in the Voi scooter mobile app to get $100,000 worth of free rides. […]
07 Oct 1 Million People Had Their Medical Data Exposed in Tū Ora Breach Primary health organization (PHO) Tū Ora Compass Health from New Zealand disclosed a security breach that led to the exposure of medical and personally identifiable information (PII) of roughly 1 million people. […]
07 Oct RobbinHood Ransomware Using Street Cred to Make Victims Pay The operators behind the RobbinHood ransomware have changed their language in the ransom note in an effort to take from victims all hope of decrypting the files for free and to make them pay for the recovery. […]
07 Oct Muhstik Ransomware Victim Hacks Back, Releases Decryption Keys A victim of the Muhstik Ransomware has hacked back against his attackers and released close to 3,000 decryption keys for victims along with a free decryptor to get their files back. […]
07 Oct DCH Hospital Pays Ryuk Ransomware for Decryption Key DCH hospitals in Alabama have decided to the pay ransom for the Ryuk Ransomware in order to receive a decryptor and get their computer systems back up and running. […]
05 Oct HildaCrypt Ransomware Developer Releases Decryption Keys The developer behind the HildaCrypt Ransomware has decided to release the ransomware’s private decryption keys. With these keys a decryptor can be made that would allow any potential victims to recover their files for free. […]
04 Oct Dutch Govt Explains the Risks Behind DNS-Over-HTTPS Move The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) explains how DNS-monitoring will get more difficult as modern encrypted DNS transport protocols are getting more popular in a fact sheet published this week. […]
04 Oct The Week in Ransomware – October 4th 2019 – That’s all Folks This has been quite a busy week with lots of new variants, new ransomware attacks, including those targeting hospitals, and new information coming out about the REvil/Sodinokibi Ransomware. […]
04 Oct UAB Medicine Data Breach Exposes Patient Info in Phishing Attack UAB Medical is the victim of a phishing attack that targeted the medical center’s payroll department. This allowed the attackers to gain access to numerous employee emails that contained the health information for 19,557 patients. […]