World Cyber News

Security experts at Cisco Talos discovered a new piece of malware dubbed GoScanSSH that was being used to compromise SSH servers exposed online. Security researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered a new piece of malware dubbed GoScanSSH that was being used to compromise SSH servers exposed online. The malicious code was written in […]

The British government says it concurs with charges contained in an indictment announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice against multiple Iranians.   The indictment, unsealed Friday, charges nine Iranian nationals with stealing more than 31 terabytes of data from 320 universities in 22 countries – including 144 U.S. institutions […]

The head of the crime ring behind the Carbanak gang that since 2013 targeted banks worldwide has been arrested in Spain. The mastermind suspected of stealing about £870m (€1bn) in a bank cyber heist has been arrested in Spain. The man is suspected to be the kingpin of the crime ring behind the Carbanak […]

Trend Micro uncovered a new crypto mining campaign targeting Linux servers that exploit the CVE-2013-2618 flaw in Cacti’s Network Weathermap plug-in, which system administrators use to visualize network activity. Security firm Trend Micro uncovered new crypto mining campaign, a cybercriminal gang has made nearly $75,000 by installing a Monero miner […]

A new ransomware named AVCrypt has been discovered that tries to uninstall existing security software before it encrypts a computer.  Furthermore, as it removes numerous services, including Windows Update, and provides no contact information, this ransomware may be a wiper. After analysis by MalwareHunterTeam, who discovered the ransomware, myself, and Michael Gillespie, it […]

Les États-Unis sont récemment passés de l’utilisation de cartes de crédit et de débit à bande magnétique considérées comme dangereuses, à l’utilisation de cartes à puce avec code PIN mieux protégées et réglementées par les normes EMV. Il s’agit d’un grand pas en avant pour améliorer la sécurité des transactions […]

The Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia has confirmed today in a press conference that several local government systems are currently down due to a ransomware infection. City officials said the ransomware infection took root earlier today, at around 5:40 AM, local time. Some systems down but crucials services still up and […]

New York Medical Facility Riddled with Ransomware Finger Lakes Health, of Geneva, New York was infected with an unknown ransomware variant on March 18, 2018.  Therefore, the medical facility’s systems were left completely encrypted, with an unknown third-party demanding a ransom payment.  The amount of the payment has not been […]

Ransomware Takes Georgia’s City of Hinesville Offline An unknown ransomware variant took down the City of Hinesville in late February.  Initially, the ransomware attack was reported as an IT incident; however, city officials are now reporting their systems were indeed infected with ransomware on February 20th.  The exact ransomware variant […]