Experts from Mandiant (FireEye) have published a recent report that the FIN11 group, which has existed since 2016, usually pursuing financial gain in its attacks, is now engaged in ransomware attacks and infects company networks...
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Microsoft patched 87 vulnerabilities, including 21 RCE bugs
As part of October Patch Tuesday, Microsoft patched 87 vulnerabilities in its products, including 11 critical vulnerabilities and 21 remote code execution (RCE) issues. fixed bugs affected Windows itself, Office, Office Services...
More than $22 million in cryptocurrency stolen from Electrum wallets
The first reports of problems among users of Electrum cryptocurrency wallets began to appear back in December 2018, when criminals attacked the project’s infrastructure and stole about a million dollars in cryptocurrency...
The Clop ransomware attacked the German Software AG company
In early October 2020, The Clop ransomware operators attacked the German IT company Software AG and demanded a ransom about $23,000,000 (2,083,0069 BTC). journalists report that the attack took place on October 3, 2020. That time...
Research team uncovered 55 vulnerabilities in Apple products
A team of five independent researchers spent three months and hundreds of man-hours and discovered 55 vulnerabilities on Apple products. However, the researchers received a reward for this with a scandal. This team included: Sam...
Attackers hacked the IT systems of the Azerbaijan government
Security researchers from Cisco Talos have reported about a malware campaign, in which attackers secretly hacked IT systems of the Azerbaijan government and stole data from passports of some officials. espionage often coincides...
HEH malware destroys all data on IoT devices
Qihoo 360 specialists have warned of a new HEH malware, which infects IoT devices, can completely reset them and destroy all data, including the OS and firmware. botnet is known for spread by brute force, attacking any gadgets...
Raccine utility protects from ransomware by banning deletion of shadow copies
Bleeping Computer journalists drew attention to an interesting utility recently created by information security expert Florian Roth. The utility is called Raccine (Ransomware vaccine) and it protects against the actions of...
New service checks email addresses for infection with Emotet
Bleeping Computer reported that Italian company TG Soft has launched a new Have I Been Emotet service (similar to the well-known Have I Been Pwned), which checks if a specific domain or email address was used as a sender or...
Ransomware operators are now also engaged in DDoS attacks
Bleeping Computer journalists say that MalwareHunterTeam specialists shared with them an interesting observation: ransomware operators adopted new tactics and started DDoS attacks. , if the victim company refuses to negotiate and...