Emotet, the notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, was automatically wiped from infected computers en masse following a European …
3.2 Billion Leaked Passwords Contain 1.5 Million Records with Government Emails
A staggering number of 3.28 billion passwords linked to 2.18 billion unique email addresses were exposed in what’s one of the largest data dumps of …
Critical RCE Bug Found in Homebrew Package Manager for macOS and Linux
A recently identified security vulnerability in the official Homebrew Cask repository could have been exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on users’ machines …
Passwordstate Password Manager Update Hijacked to Install Backdoor on Thousands of PCs
Click Studios, the Australian software company behind the Passwordstate password management application, has notified customers to reset their passwords following a software supply chain attack. …
New QNAP NAS Flaws Exploited In Recent Ransomware Attacks – Patch It!
A new ransomware strain called “Qlocker” is targeting QNAP network attached storage (NAS) devices as part of an ongoing campaign and encrypting files in password-protected …
Prometei Botnet Exploiting Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers
Attackers are exploiting the ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange Server flaws to co-opt vulnerable machines to a cryptocurrency botnet named Prometei, according to new research. “Prometei exploits …
Hackers Exploit VPN to Deploy SUPERNOVA malware on SolarWinds Orion
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has disclosed details of a new advanced persistent threat (APT) that’s leveraging the Supernova backdoor to compromise …
Researchers Find Additional Infrastructure Used By SolarWinds Hackers
The sprawling SolarWinds cyberattack[1] which came to light last December was known for its sophistication in the breadth of tactics used to infiltrate and persist …
Cost of Account Unlocks, and Password Resets Add Up
There are many labor-intensive tasks that the IT service desk carries out on a daily basis. None as tedious and costly as resetting passwords. Modern …
Cybercriminals Using Telegram Messenger to Control ToxicEye Malware
Adversaries are increasingly abusing Telegram as a “command-and-control” system to distribute malware into organizations that could then be used to capture sensitive information from targeted …
