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No More Ransom Success Story: Saves $108+ Million in Ransomware Payments

Today marks the third anniversary of No More Ransom and through its partners from the public and private sectors, law enforcement, academia, and researchers, the project has been able to help hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of victims get their encrypted files back for free. […]

25 Jul

Porn Bots on Instagram Switch to More Guileful Tactics

Spam operators using bots to promote adult-themed services change their tactics to avoid Instagram’s detection mechanism. Redirects remain the main stratagem but they come with other tricks meant to push the user towards a particular website. […]

25 Jul

BlueKeep RCE Exploit Module Added to Penetration Testing Tool

Security outfit Immunity has included a fully working BlueKeep exploit in their CANVAS automated pentesting utility with the release of version 7.23, on July 23. […]

25 Jul

Ransomware Attacks Prompt Louisiana to Declare State of Emergency

Louisiana Governor John Edwards has declared a state of emergency after a wave of ransomware attacks targeted school districts this month. This Emergency Declaration will allow Louisiana state resources and cybersecurity experts to assist local governments in securing their networks. […]

25 Jul

Microsoft Office 365 Webmail Exposes User’s IP Address in Emails

If you use Office 365’s webmail interface to prevent email recipients from seeing your local IP address, you are out of luck. When sending email through Office 365, your local IP address will be injected into the message as an extra mail header. […]

25 Jul

Keep Calm, Carry On. VLC Not Affected by Critical Vulnerability

A recent security alert caused a panic where people thought the VLC Media Player was affected by a critical vulnerability that had no patch. The problem is that the vulnerability was not in VLC, but rather a module that was replaced over 16 months ago. […]

24 Jul

Robinhood Brokerage Firm Alerts of Passwords Stored in Clear Text

The Robinhood stock trading site is alerting users that passwords were stored in their system in human readable format, otherwise known as clear text. While no foul play was detected, this could have allowed employees or unauthorized users to view an account’s password. […]

24 Jul

Malwarebytes AdwCleaner 7.4 Can Now Remove Bloatware From Windows

Malwarebytes has released AdwCleaner 7.4 and with it comes a new feature that will detect and remove preinstalled software that is typically added to generate revenue for the hardware developer and thus reduce the device’s cost. […]

24 Jul

BlueKeep Scanner Discovered in Watchbog Cryptomining Malware

A new Watchbog malware variant can scan for Windows computers vulnerable to BlueKeep exploits, with previous variants only being utilized to infect Linux servers compromised using Jira, Exim, Nexus Repository Manager 3, ThinkPHP, and Solr Linux exploits. […]

24 Jul

Sodinokibi Ransomware Distributed by Hackers Posing as German BSI

BSI, the German national cybersecurity authority, has issued a warning regarding a malspam campaign that distributes the Sodinokibi ransomware via emails designed to look like official BSI messages. […]

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No More Ransom Success Story: Saves $108+ Million in Ransomware Payments

Porn Bots on Instagram Switch to More Guileful Tactics

BlueKeep RCE Exploit Module Added to Penetration Testing Tool

Ransomware Attacks Prompt Louisiana to Declare State of Emergency

Microsoft Office 365 Webmail Exposes User’s IP Address in Emails

Keep Calm, Carry On. VLC Not Affected by Critical Vulnerability

Robinhood Brokerage Firm Alerts of Passwords Stored in Clear Text

Malwarebytes AdwCleaner 7.4 Can Now Remove Bloatware From Windows

BlueKeep Scanner Discovered in Watchbog Cryptomining Malware

Sodinokibi Ransomware Distributed by Hackers Posing as German BSI