On March 22, a ransomware outbreak hit Atlanta city government systems, freezing not just the city’s technology but also its ability to get work done. As a result of the outbreak, the city’s 8,000 employees were unable to use their PCs for several days (see Atlanta After Ransomware Attack: Please Restart Your […]
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When users take a look through their sent messages, they aren’t always searching for an email they sent. The security-minded user is looking for any messages that they did not send out. That’s how some Gmail users recently discovered a spam message campaign. Several users in a Gmail help forum reported that they […]
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KIEV (Reuters) – Hackers took down the website of the Ukrainian energy and coal ministry on Tuesday, posting a message in English demanding a ransom paid in Bitcoin to recover encrypted files. The attack appeared to be an isolated incident with no other government websites or systems affected, cyber police […]
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The personal data of up to 14 million people in the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey has been stolen by online criminals in a cyber-attack on the systems of Dubai ride sharing platform Careem. On January 14, the company detected the breach in the computer systems which hold the account data […]
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Drupal developers announced on Monday that versions 7.x, 8.4.x and 8.5.x of the content management system (CMS) will receive a new security update later this week. The Drupal core updates, scheduled for April 25 between 16:00 and 18:00 UTC, will deliver a follow-up patch for the highly critical vulnerability tracked […]
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The US is looking to lock up one of the Yahoo mega-breach spearphishers for 94 months: nearly eight years. On Tuesday, Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors asked a San Francisco federal court judge to impose that sentence on Karim Baratov, a Canadian citizen born in Kazakhstan who was indicted in March 2017 […]
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Foxit has addressed over a dozen vulnerabilities in their PDF Reader, a free application that provides users with an alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader. Designed for viewing, creating, and editing PDF documents, Foxit PDF Reader is a popular free program that also has a broadly used browser plugin available. Released […]
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The P.E.I. government’s website was held for ransom Monday, but a spokesman for the province says no personal data was breached. Scott Cudmore, director of enterprise architecture services, confirmed the website was the victim of a ransomware attack. Cudmore said after the attack was noticed an investigation was done to […]
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Symantec researchers have monitored the activity of a cyber espionage group tracked as Orangeworm that targets organizations in the healthcare sector. Security experts at Symantec have published a report on the activity of a cyber espionage group tracked as Orangeworm that targets healthcare organizations. “Symantec has identified a previously unknown group called Orangeworm […]
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Kaspersky analyzed the served compromised by the Energetic Bear APT and assumed with some degree of certainty that the group operates in the interests of or takes orders from customers that are external to it. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT have published a detailed analysis of the server […]
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