IBM experts say that Mozi botnet generated 90% of all IoT traffic
IBM experts examined the Mozi botnet, which is based on the Mirai and Gafgyt code. Researchers claim that this botnet generated 90% of all...
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News · September 18, 2020
First death due to ransomware attack: German hospital patient dies
Last week, September 10, 2020, the University Hospital Düsseldorf underwent a ransomware attack that hit its network and over 30 internal servers. Perhaps the...
News · September 17, 2020
The source codes of the banker Cerberus are published on the darknet for free
Dmitry Galov, an expert from Kaspersky Lab, said that the auction for sale of the source codes of the Android banking Trojan Cerberus obviously...
News · September 16, 2020
Experts discovered BLESA attack, to which are vulnerable billions of Bluetooth devices
Experts from Purdue University have warned that billions of smartphones, tablets, laptops and other devices using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) are vulnerable to a...
News · September 15, 2020
Hackers are breaking into cloud servers mainly to mine Monero cryptocurrency
According to Aqua Security report, released this week, attacks on cloud systems have grown by a record 250% over the past year. Interestingly, hackers...
News · September 14, 2020
IE and Adobe Flash Player users suffer from malicious ads on porn sites
Malwarebytes has discovered the Malsmoke group, whose malicious ads have infiltrated virtually all ad networks that partner with porn sites. Mostly IE and Adobe...
News · September 11, 2020
Raccoon attack on TLS can be used to decrypt HTTPS traffic
The team of exerts has published a description of a theoretical Raccoon attack on TLS that can be used for decrypting HTTPS connections and...
News · September 10, 2020
BLURtooth vulnerability allows overwriting Bluetooth authentication keys
Experts from CERT and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) have released information on the BLURtooth vulnerability, which poses a threat to all devices...
News · September 9, 2020
Chilean bank BancoEstado closed all branches due to ransomware attack
Largest Chilean banks, BancoEstado, was forced to suspend work of all its branches this week due to a ransomware attack. Last weekend, most probably...
News · September 8, 2020
France, Japan, and New Zealand record burst of Emotet activity
Law enforcement officials from France, Japan and New Zealand warn that Emotet activity surged in the last week, with sharply rising number of attacks...
News · September 7, 2020
Due to vulnerability in File Manager plugin attacked millions of WordPress sites
Last week we reported that in the File Manager plugin was found dangerous vulnerability for WordPress, which allows uploading malicious files to vulnerable sites....
News · September 4, 2020
Cisco fixed critical vulnerability in Jabber for Windows
This week, Cisco engineers fixed a vulnerability in several versions of Jabber for Windows, video conferencing and messaging application. Fixed issues included an RCE...
