A study of 2,700 IT professionals across the globe has revealed that 54% of organizations suffered a ransomware attack in the last year, and most organizations were hit more than twice, with the average number of ransomware per attacks being two. On average, every ransomware attack costs companies $133,000, but […]
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If you have ever been infected or have helped someone infected with adware, then you most likely have seen your browser being redirected to sites pretending to be Flash Player updates. Instead of a legitimate update, these sites normally push adware bundles that install further unwanted programs on an unsuspecting user. Today, […]
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The popular Luminosity RAT has been shut down by authorities and its users have no access to it anymore. In a joint operation, the law enforcement authorities from Australia, Europe, and North America have shut down a “hacking tool” called Luminosity Link RAT (Remote Access Trojan) also known as LuminosityLink. In the […]
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Avec le logiciel AutoSploit, quelques mots-clés suffisent pour pirater en masse des systèmes accessibles par Internet. Le logiciel provoque une vive polémique parmi les chercheurs en sécurité. Mauvaise nouvelle pour les utilisateurs d’objets connectés. Un hacker dénommé « VectorSEC » vient de créer un outil diabolique qui permet de pirater en masse […]
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A Monero-mining botnet targeting Redis and OrientDB servers has infected nearly 4,400 servers and has mined over $925,000 worth of Monero since March 2017. The botnet —named DDG based on one of its modules— targets Redis servers via a credentials dictionary brute-force attack; and OrientDB databases by exploiting the CVE-2017-11467 […]
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One more reason to uninstall Adobe Flash Participant—a brand new zero-day Flash Participant exploit has reportedly been noticed within the wild by North Korean hackers. South Korea’s Laptop Emergency Response Crew (KR-CERT) issued an alert Wednesday for a brand new Flash Participant zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited within […]
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Pour la première fois depuis sa création, Facebook perd des utilisateurs aux USA et au Canada. Avec deux milliards de membres actifs, Facebook aurait-il atteint une sorte de plafond de verre, ou est-ce seulement un effet du social cooling dont nous vous parlions récemment ? Toujours est-il que le réseau […]
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Over 526,000 Windows computers —mainly Windows servers— have been infected with Monero mining software by a group that operates the biggest such botnet known to date. This group’s operations have been known to security researchers since last year, and various companies have published reports on its activity. Because the botnet […]
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96 percent of organizations have received business email compromise (BEC) emails during the second half of 2017, according to Agari. “BEC is a particularly effective attack vector because its lack of payload makes it nearly impossible for conventional email security solutions to detect and prevent,” said Markus Jakobsson, chief scientist, […]
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Dutch tax authority, banks face coordinated cyberattack The Dutch taxation authority, as well as several banks, faced a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks on their networks Monday, in what appears to be a coordinated strike on the Netherlands’ financial infrastructure. The tax authority said it experienced DDoS attacks that caused […]
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