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...
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News · October 7, 2020
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...
News · October 6, 2020
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)...
News · October 5, 2020
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...
News · October 2, 2020
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...
News · October 1, 2020
Information security specialists found a hidden backdoor in HP Device Manager
Cognitous Cyber Security experts told The Register about the backdoor and a number of other issues in HP Device Manager, which is designed to...
News · September 30, 2020
Qnap Engineers Explained How to Protect Against AgeLocker
This summer, information security specialists a new AgeLocker ransomware, which uses the Age (Actually Good Encryption) encryption algorithm to encrypt the files of its...
News · September 29, 2020
REvil Developers Made $1 Million Deposit on Hacker forum
Bleeping Computer journalists noticed that creators of the REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware put one million dollars in bitcoins on deposit on a Russian-speaking hacker...
News · September 28, 2020
Google removes 17 Android apps with Joker malware
Google has removed 17 Android apps from the official Play Store, which were infected with Joker (also known as Bread) malware. discovered by security...
News · September 25, 2020
Ransomware operators use Cobalt Strike in 66% of cases
Hackers, and not only by government APT groups, for a long time loved legitimate commercial framework Cobalt Strike, created for pentester and the red...
News · September 24, 2020
AgeLocker attacks Qnap devices and steals user data
This summer, Bleeping Computer journalists reported about the new AgeLocker ransomware, which uses the Age (Actually Good Encryption) algorithm to encrypt the files of...
Adware · September 23, 2020
Child helped to detect malware in the App Store and Google Play, downloaded over 2.4 million times
Avast specialists reported that they found seven malicious adware applications in the App Store and Google Play, developed by one person or a group...
