Tag: Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity. The new maxtrilha trojan is being disseminated and targeting several banks (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

A new banking trojan dubbed maxtrilha (due to its encryption key) has been discovered in the last few days and targeting customers of European and South...

Cybersecurity/South Africa. Department of Justice and Constitutional Development of South Africa hit by a ransomware attack (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development of South Africa was hit by a ransomware attack that crippled bail services Department of Justice and Constitutional...

Cybersecurity. Digital privacy comes at a price. Here’s how to protect it (Robert Muggah, WEF)

Data privacy exchanged for frictionless convenience is being compromised, stolen and leaked with disturbing regularity. People do not consciously put a price on...

Cybersecurity/China. Overseas cyber-attacks spike during major Chinese holidays and ceremonies (Fan Lingzhi, Global Times)

cyber attack Photo: CFP The number of overseas cyber-attacks on the Guizhou-Cloud system platform often increase significantly during China's major holidays and celebrations, a manager...

Cybersecurity. A new botnet named Mēris is behind massive DDoS attack that hit Yandex (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

The massive DDoS attack that has been targeting the internet giant Yandex was powered b a completely new botnet tracked as Mēris. A new botnet...

Cybersecurity. Millions of Microsoft web servers powered by vulnerable legacy software (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

CyberNews researchers identified more than 2 million web servers worldwide still running on outdated and vulnerable versions of Microsoft Internet Information Services software. Millions of...

Cybersecurity. TeamTNT cybercrime gang expands its arsenal to target thousands of orgs worldwide (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

The financially motivated TeamTNT hacking group expanded its arsenal with new tools used to target thousands of victims worldwide. TeamTNT gang expands its arsenal to...

Cybersecurity. Yandex is under the largest DDoS attack in the history of Runet (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

The Russian internet service provider Yandex is under a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that began last week. Yandex is under the largest DDoS attack...

Cybersecurity. Zoho warns of zero-day authentication bypass flaw actively exploited (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Zoho urges customers to address an authentication bypass vulnerability in its ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus that is actively exploited in the wild. Zoho warns of zero-day...

Cybersecurity. Personal information of 7 million Israelis available for sale (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

A threat actor that goes online with the moniker ‘Sangkancil’ claims to have stolen the personal information of 7 million Israelis. Personal information of 7...

Cybersecurity. Groove gang leaks list of 500k credentials of compromised Fortinet appliances (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Groove gang leaked online Fortinet credentials that could be used to breach networks of organizations using the compromised devices. Groove gang leaks list of credentials of...

Cybersecurity. Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor blocks access to 6 VPNs (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor tightens control of its citizens and blocked access to six virtual private networks (VPNs), including NordVPN and ExpressVPN Russian communications watchdog...

Cybersecurity. Germany protests to Russia over attacks ahead of the upcoming election (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Germany has protested to Russia over attempts to steal data from lawmakers and use them to spread disinformation ahead of the upcoming election Germany protests...

Cybersecurity. REvil ransomware gang’s servers are mysteriously online again (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

The leak site of the popular REvil ransomware gang is it is not clear if the group resumed operations or the FBI turned on...

Cybersecurity. Researcher published PoC exploit for Ghostscript zero-day (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

A researcher published the PoC exploit code for a Ghostscript zero-day vulnerability that could allow completely compromise a server Researcher published PoC exploit for Ghostscript...

Cybersecurity. A server of the Jenkins project hacked by exploiting a Confluence flaw (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

The development team behind the Jenkins server disclose a security breach, threat actors deployed a cryptocurrency miner on one of its servers A server of the...