In four months the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, and companies are racing against time to comply with the new rules (and avoid being brutally fined if they fail). One of the things that the regulation mandates is that EU citizens must be able to get […]
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Ransomware Leaves Ohio Clinic Inoperable We’ve heard of ransomware infections infecting hospitals and clinics. We’ve also heard that at times patients have been sent away because some of the more sophisticated procedures could not be done. Now, a medical clinic in northeastern Ohio has been completely shut down due to […]
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The Dutch intelligence service AIVD ‘hacked’ Russian Cozy Bear systems for years Spying on spies – The hackers from the Dutch intelligence service AIVD ‘compromised’ for years the network of the Russian APT Cozy Bear. It’s not a mystery, technology firms that intend to work with Russia need to allow […]
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Stealth CrossRAT malware targets Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems The popular former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle published a detailed analysis of the CrossRAT malware used by Dark Caracal for surveillance. Last week a joint report published by security firm Lookout and digital civil rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation detailed the activity of […]
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Maersk chair revealed its company reinstalled 45,000 PCs and 4,000 Servers after NotPetya Attack The shipping giant Maersk chair Jim Hagemann Snabe revealed its company reinstalled 45,000 PCs and 4,000 Servers after NotPetya the attack. The shipping giant Maersk was one of the companies that suffered the NotPetya massive attack, in August 2017 the company […]
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Dark Web has become a creepy place since it is home to illegal activities including selling drugs, weapons, stolen databases and hosting highly condemnable activities like hosting child pornography platforms. Now, according to the latest research from Terbium Labs, a dark Web intelligence firm, cybercriminals are now targeting new-born babies […]
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libcurl has had authentication leak bug dated back to before September 1999 According to a security advisory, libcurl is affected by a couple of issues, one of them might cause the leakage of authentication data to third parties. libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, it builds and works identically on numerous platforms. […]
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Spritecoin ransomware masquerades as cryptocurrency wallet and also harvests victim’s data !! Fortinet discovered a strain of ransomware dubbed Spritecoin ransomware that only allows victims Monero payments and pretends to be a cryptocurrency-related password store. Researchers from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs has discovered a strain of ransomware that only allows victims Monero payments and […]
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Are you using Linux or Mac OS? If you think your system is not prone to viruses, then you should read this. Wide-range of cybercriminals are now using a new piece of ‘undetectable’ spying malware that targets Windows, macOS, Solaris and Linux systems. Just last week we published a detailed article on […]
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The next in the never ending series of malware downloaders is an email with the subject of Account Statement coming from Morton Lintern <Morton.2825@pineislandweb.com> delivers Dridex banking trojan I am also seeing other similar subjects including: Outstanding Statement There will be numerous different versions of this malware coming from random names@pineislandweb.com and very […]
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