Team Kerala Cyber Warriors, a hacking group based out of India, have begun to install ransomware on web sites based out of Pakistan. This ransomware, called KCW Ransomware, encrypts the files on a web site and then demands a ransom payment in order to get the files back. You can […]
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Operators behind the Necurs botnet, the world’s largest spam botnet, are currently using a new evasion technique attempting to surprise the unprepared defenses. Necurs is the world’s largest spam botnet, it is composed of millions of infected computers worldwide. Necurs was not active for a long period at the beginning of […]
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Depuis le 17 avril dernier, les navigateurs Chrome et Firefox ne reconnaissent plus les certificats émis par Symantec (et toutes ses marques – GeoTrust, Thawte, RapidSSL). Quelle conséquence majeure ? Lorsqu’un utilisateur de Chrome ou Firefox se rend sur l’URL d’un site web dont le certificat est fourni par Symantec, […]
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Criminal fantasy dream-site Webstresser[.]org, a DDoS-for-hire market believed to be behind at least 4 million cyberattacks around the world, has served up its last internet-paralyzing traffic tsunami. A multi-national investigation led by Europol has led to the arrest of the administrators of the site, which sold the capability to knock […]
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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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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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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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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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The United Arab Emirates-based ride-hailing giant Careem has been hacked. As a result, personal and private data of 14 million drivers and customers has been stolen. Careem is Uber’s rival in the Middle East and South Asia and North Africa. The company operates in 80 cities in 13 countries and […]
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