Vectra Networks, a cybersecurity firm that helps customers detect “in-progress” cyberattacks, today announced that it has closed a $36 million Series D funding round, bringing the total amount raised to date by the company to $123 million. The company said the investment would be used to expand sales and marketing, […]
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A lesser known hacker group believed to be working on behalf of the North Korean government has been expanding the scope and sophistication of its campaigns, according to a report published on Tuesday by FireEye. The threat actor is tracked by FireEye as APT37 and Reaper, and by other security […]
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Hackers have breached Tesla cloud servers used by the company’s engineers and have installed malware that mines the cryptocurrency. The incident took place last year when hackers gained access to Tesla’s Kubernetes server, an open-source application used by large companies to manage API and server infrastructure deployed on cloud hosting providers. Hackers […]
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Plusieurs consommateurs ont alerté l’UFC-Que Choisir d’une arnaque dont ils ont récemment été victimes, baptisée « arnaque à la carte SIM ». Basée sur la technique du phishing, qui consiste à récolter des renseignements personnels (coordonnées bancaires, identifiants, etc.) en usurpant l’identité d’un fournisseur ou d’une administration, elle permet aux escrocs de […]
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Une campagne de phishing particulièrement évoluée, promettant des billets de vol gratuits, sévit depuis la fin de semaine dernière. L’URL utilisée renvoyant sur un site malveillant utilise un caractère issu de l’alphabet phonétique rendant l’escroquerie presque indécelable. L’URL utilisée par les pirates de l’attaque par phishing ciblant Air France renvoie […]
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Il y a un nouveau ransomware, qui cible les ordinateurs des victimes au moyen de fichiers PDF téléchargeables. Il faut faire preuve de la plus grande précaution lors du téléchargement de fichiers PDF provenant d’expéditeurs inconnus. Qu’est-ce que GandCrab ? La menace imminente est apparue après que LMNTRIX, une société […]
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Citing a report from the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), the White House said on Friday that cyberattacks cost the US economy somewhere between $57 billion to $109 billion in 2016. The estimate includes losses from a wide variety of activities, such as DDoS attacks, data breaches, ransom demands, downed infrastructure, lost […]
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Hacker Group Makes $3 Million by Installing Monero Miners on Jenkins Servers A criminal organization has made $3.4 million by compromising Jenkins servers and installing a Monero cryptocurrency miner dubbed JenkinsMiner. “The perpetrator, allegedly of Chinese origin, has been running the XMRig miner on many versions of Windows,and has already secured him over $3 million […]
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The Mirai Botnet Is Attacking Again… And the spinoff bots – and all their command and control hostnames buried in the morass of digital data – are hilarious. The Mirai botnet is kind of like Madonna. They both were huge once. Then the adoring public shifted their attention to younger, newer […]
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Two Muscovites have been sentenced to years in prison for their roles in the biggest data breach conspiracy ever prosecuted in the United States. Three co-conspirators are still at large. Vladimir Drinkman, 37 and Dmitriy Smilianets, 34, had previously pleaded guilty for their roles in the conspiracy to commit wire […]
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