For large ransom groups, creating so-called “leak sites” has become a major strategy in order to upload and leak important documents from firms who decline to pay the ransomware decryption fee. These sites are part of a new inclination founding on the cybercriminal underground where ransomware groups are espousing a Continue Reading
A group of newbie threat actors from Iran that has been carrying out attacks against companies in Asia and trying to encode their networks with a version of the Dharma ransomware. Cyber-security company Group-IB, which identified the group, has said that the hackers have targeted companies located in Russia, Japan, China, and India. Continue Reading
Recently, a peer-to-peer botnet known as FritzFrog has made waves in the technology realm, with researchers saying it has been aggressively breaching SSH servers—pieces of software found in routers and IoT devices—for the last 8 months. As per technology experts, FritzFrog spreads as a worm, brute-forcing credentials at institutions like Continue Reading
Authorities said on Thursday that thousands of user accounts for online government services in Canada were lately hacked during cyber-attacks. In a press release, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat clarified that the GCKey service, used by around thirty federal departments and Canada Revenue Accounts, were targeted by the attacks. Continue Reading
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has said in an alert that a group of top hackers linked with the Iranian government has been spotted attacking the US private and government sector. The alert, which was issued last week, didn’t recognize the hackers by name; it’s learned that the group is Continue Reading
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