On June 27th, 2017, a dangerous ransomware attack called Petya hit businesses all over Europe, including Denmark based transport and logistics conglomerate Maersk group, which suffered a cyber attack from hackers who used a modified version of Petya called NotPetya. The attack was so massive that Maersk suffered a million of […]
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Espionnage du siège de l’Union africaine par la Chine : le prix à payer pour la gratuité
Alors que s’ouvre, dimanche 28 janvier 2018, le 30e sommet de l’Union Africaine,le nouveau siège de l’Union africaine, « offert par la Chine, généreux donateur, aux amis de l’Afrique », est espionné par Pékin depuis son inauguration en 2012. Il y a un an, les informaticiens du bâtiment, construit en 2012 par les Chinois, […]
Coincheck cryptocurrency exchange hacked; $534 Million stolen
Another day, another cryptocurrency exchange under cyber attack – This time Coincheck, Japanese cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked and lost $534 million in NEM tokens. One of Japan’s and Asia’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has suffered a data breach in which unknown hackers have stolen 58 billion Yen of the virtual currency “NEM (Nemu)” ($534 million […]
Ohio Physicians Clinic Shuts Down After Ransomware Attack
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 […]
The Dutch intelligence service AIVD ‘hacked’ Russian Cozy Bear systems for years
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 […]
Stealth CrossRAT malware targets Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems
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 […]
Maersk chair revealed its company reinstalled 45,000 PCs and 4,000 Servers after NotPetya Attack
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 […]
Cybercriminals Selling Social Security Numbers of Infants on Dark Web
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 […]
libcurl has had authentication leak bug dated back to before September 1999
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. […]
Spritecoin ransomware masquerades as cryptocurrency wallet and also harvests victim’s data !!
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 […]