A ransomware infection has wreaked havoc at Romantik Seehotel Jägerwirt, a four-star hotel in the Austrian Alps, on the lip of the Turracher Höhe mountain lake. The incident took placeRead More →
Symantec is currently investigating reports of yet another new attack in the Middle East involving the destructive disk-wiping malware used by the Shamoon group (W32.Disttrack, W32.Disttrack.B). Similar to previous attacks,Read More →
Developers with WordPress fixed three security issues this week, including a cross-site scripting and a SQL injection vulnerability, with the latest version of the CMS. The update, 4.7.2, was pushedRead More →
First observed in July 2014, “Dridex,” a financial banking Trojan, is considered the successor to the “GameOver ZeuS” (GoZ) malware. • Dridex was most active between 2014 and 2015, andRead More →
Group responsible for carrying out highly-sophisticated attacks against banks ATMs. Five members of an international organised cybercrime group have been arrested and three of them convicted so far as aRead More →
We have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare… and backups? Cockrell Hill, Texas has a population of just over 4,000 souls and a police force thatRead More →
Top law enforcement officers, FBI director James Comey and Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, are supportive of giving law enforcement means to sidestep encryption. It seems likelyRead More →
At the end of last year, Mozilla hurriedly patched a zero-day vulnerability for Firefox that had been used against targets in the wild. Shortly after, Motherboard found that the relatedRead More →
LeakedSource garnered criticism for actively cracking the passwords it sold. LeakedSource, a legally and ethically questionable website that sold access to a database of more than 3.1 billion compromised accountRead More →
The VirLocker ransomware made a comeback this past week with a new and very virulent version, but the Malwarebytes security team says there’s a way for victims to recover filesRead More →
