Last week, September 10, 2020, the University Hospital Düsseldorf underwent a ransomware attack that hit its network and over 30 internal servers. Perhaps the side side effect was the first death due to the ransomware attack...
Author - Emma Davis
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 did not meet expectations of the malware authors. As a result, according to ZDNet...
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 new BLESA (Bluetooth Low Energy Spoofing Attack) attack. me remind...
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 are breaking into cloud servers mainly to mine cryptocurrencies. Attacks are...
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 Flash Player users were affected. of the hackers injected their ads...
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 reading traffic. , the researchers admit that the Raccoon attack is theoretical and...
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 using Bluetooth from version 4.0 to version 5.0. 5.1 has features that...
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 REvil ransomware operators attacked the financial institution. , on Monday...
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 targeting their countries. fact is that the number of spam emails originating...
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. Manager plugin is used by more than 700,000 resources, and...