SynAck ransomware operators published decryption keys
The hack group El_Cometa, formerly known as SynAck, released keys to decrypt data that had suffered from attacks by their ransomware between July 2017...
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News · August 12, 2021
Pirates make over a billion dollars a year from malicious and conventional ads
Analysts at the nonprofit Digital Citizens Alliance and anti-piracy firm White Bullet have published a study finding that pirates make over than $1.34 billion...
News · August 11, 2021
Universal decryption key of REvil appeared on the Russian-language hacker forum
The universal decryption key of REvil, which was at the disposal of the Kaseya company, whose clients have recently suffered from ransomware attacks, appeared...
News · August 9, 2021
Researchers published an unofficial patch for the PetitPotam vulnerability
Last month, French researcher Gilles Lionel discovered a vulnerability in various versions of Windows Server, which he named PetitPotam, and now there is an...
News · August 5, 2021
INFRA: HALT vulnerabilities affect industrial equipment from 200 manufacturers
Forescout and JFrog have disclosed 14 vulnerabilities in the NicheStack TCP/IP library known as INFRA: HALT. This library is used in industrial devices from...
News · August 4, 2021
DeadRinger attack targets telecommunications companies in Southeast Asia
Cybereason analysts have found that in recent years, at least five major telecommunications service providers in Southeast Asia, serving tens of millions of customers,...
News · August 3, 2021
Developers fixed serious vulnerabilities in WordPress Download Manager
Wordfence experts warned about the vulnerabilities recently fixed in the WordPress Download Manager plugin (installed on more than 100,000 sites). These bugs can be...
News · August 2, 2021
ENISA encouraged organizations to check all software updates before installing
To avoid attacks on the supply chain, organizations should check all software updates before installing, according to the European agency ENISA. to the European...
Babuk · July 30, 2021
McAfee says Babuk decryptor does not work and corrupts victims’ data
McAfee experts released a report in which they analysed the Babuk decryptor and reported that it does not work and corrupts victims' data. researchers...
News · July 29, 2021
Iranian railway system attacked by Meteor wiper
Experts from Amnpardaz and SentinelOne concluded that in early July, the Iranian railway system was attacked not by an encryptor, as previously assumed, but...
News · July 28, 2021
Researchers warn of unpatched vulnerabilities in Kaseya Unitrends
The Dutch Vulnerability Disclosure Institute (DIVD) said it identified three 0-day vulnerabilities in the Kaseya Unitrends backup product. Unitrends is a cloud-based enterprise backup...
News · July 27, 2021
Signal sends random images to contacts due to a bug
In Signal for Android version 5.17.3, bug due to which the application sometimes sent random images from the gallery to contacts was fixed. The...
