Tag: security

A new ransomware called LooCipher has been discovered that is actively being used in the wild to infect users. While it is not known exactly how this ransomware is being distributed, based on some of the files that were found, we believe it is through a spam campaign. […]

Sensitive personal information of roughly 2.9 million Desjardins Group members was leaked after an employee disclosed it to people outside the organization without authorization.  […]

A cryptomining dropper malware has been spotted by security researchers while gaining persistence on Linux hosts by adding cron jobs to reinfect the compromised machines after being removed. […]

A new modular backdoor malware strain capable of mining cryptocurrencies and of spreading to other machines on the local network with the help of SMB and UPnP plugins has been detected by Kaspersky security researchers. […]

Mozilla released Firefox 67.0.3 and Firefox ESR 60.7.1 to patch an actively exploited and critical severity vulnerability which could allow attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code on machines running vulnerable Firefox versions. […]

A denial of service flaw found in the way recent Linux and FreeBSD kernels handle TCP networking can be exploited by remote attackers to trigger a kernel panic in vulnerable systems. […]