Researchers from Temple University have been tracking ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure all over the world. A team of researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia has presented a project named CIRWA (repository of critical infrastructure ransomware attacks) that aims at tracking ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure worldwide. The project was launched in September 2019 and […]
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), one of the largest school divisions in the US, was hit by Maze ransomware operators. Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) was victim of an attack carried out by the Maze ransomware operators. FCPS is one of the largest school districts in the US with an approved budget of $3.2 billion […]
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The Development Bank of Seychelles (DBS) was hit by a ransomware attack disclose the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS). The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) disclosed via a press statement that the Development Bank of Seychelles (DBS) was hit by a ransomware attack. DBS is a joint venture by the Seychelles government and some shareholders including […]
The INVDoS (Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service)Attack would have allowed hackers to crash Bitcoin nodes and alternative chains. Two years ago, the Bitcoin protocol engineer Braydon Fuller. discovered a major uncontrolled memory resource consumption denial-of-service vulnerability (INVDoS), tracked as CVE-2018-17145, that affected the peer-to-peer network code of three implementations of Bitcoin and other blockchains, including Litecoin, Namecoin, […]
A cybercrime group named Malàsmoke has been targeting porn sites over the past months with malicious ads redirecting users to exploit kits. A cybercrime group named Malàsmoke has been targeting porn sites over the past months, it is placing malicious ads on adult-themed websites to redirect users to exploit kits and deliver malware. According to […]
Experts reported threat actors are increasingly targeting a recently addressed vulnerability in the WordPress plugin File Manager. Researchers from WordPress security company Defiant observed a surge in the number of attacks targeting a recently addressed vulnerability in the WordPress plugin File Manager. In early September, experts reported that hackers were actively exploiting a critical remote […]
Boffins devised a new timing attack, dubbed Raccoon that could be exploited by threat actors to decrypt TLS-protected communications. Security researchers from universities in Germany and Israel have disclosed the details of a new timing attack, dubbed Raccoon, that could allow malicious actors to decrypt TLS-protected communications. The timing vulnerability resides in the Transport Layer […]
Microsoft reveals that state-sponsored hackers had tried to breach email accounts belonging to people involved in the US election. Microsoft announced to have detected a new wave of attacks carried out by Chinese, Iranian, and Russian state-sponsored hackers against the US election. Threat actors had tried to compromise email accounts belonging to people associated with […]
Palo Alto Networks addressed critical and high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in its PAN-OS firewall software. Palo Alto Networks has released security updates to patch critical and high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in its PAN-OS firewall software. The most severe flaw is a buffer overflow issue can be exploited […]