A hacker who appears to be acting on behalf of a foreign government, exploiting software provider SolarWinds, FireEye, a US security firm today deploys malware-infected updates to Orion software. He said he infected the network. The FireEye report was released after Reuters, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal reported Continue Reading
K-12 education institutions in the U.S. are being exploited for extortion, data theft, and general disruption of routine operation by malicious actors. The phenomenon will continue through the academic year 2020/2021. The warning is issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Continue Reading
Hackers broke into databases, snatch their content, hold it for ransom for 9 days, and then sell it to the highest bidder. If the DB owner does not want to pay the ransom demand. For a price of just $550/database, more than 85,000 SQL databases are listed for sale on Continue Reading
As part of the company’s monthly batch of security updates, known as Patch Tuesday, Microsoft today announced 58 security patches across 10+ products and services. Microsoft released fixes for 58 newly discovered security flaws ranging as many as 11 products and services as part of the final Patch Tuesday of Continue Reading
After hackers penetrated its internal network and encrypted the company’s files, helicopter maker Kopter became the victim of a ransomware attack. The ransomware gang published some of the company’s files on the internet on Friday after Kopter declined to engage with the hackers. As part of their tactics, many ransomware Continue Reading
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