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CISA Reports Spearphishing Attack Leading to Ransomware Impacting Pipeline Operations
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages asset owner operators across all critical infrastructure sectors to review the below threat actor techniques and ensure the corresponding mitigations are applied. CISA responded to a cyberattack...
London Offshore Consultants Suffer Maze Ransomware Attack
UK marine engineering consultancy London Offshore Consultants (LOC) Group has been hacked by a group known as Maze. The company, with more than 400 employees, saw its computers frozen on December 30 with hackers then demanding a ransom to unlock them. The hackers...
52% of companies use cloud services that have experienced a breach
Seventy-nine percent of companies store sensitive data in the public cloud, according to a McAfee survey. While these companies approve an average of 41 cloud services each, up 33 percent from last year, thousands of other services are used ad-hoc without vetting. In...
Microsoft’s Azure is still growing fast to take on AWS, but Xbox is still struggling
The tech giant reported impressive revenue in everything but gaming. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke with investors on the company's quarterly earnings call to share some numbers about Microsoft's performance in the second quarter of the 2020 fiscal year, which...
The Cost of Avast’s Free Antivirus: Companies Can Spy on Your Clicks
Avast is harvesting users' browser histories on the pretext that the data has been 'de-identified,' thus protecting your privacy. But the data, which is being sold to third parties, can be linked back to people's real identities, exposing every click and search...
DoppelPaymer Ransomware Sells Victims’ Data on Darknet if Not Paid
The DoppelPaymer Ransomware is the latest family threatening to sell or publish a victim's stolen files if they do not pay a ransom demand. A new tactic being used by ransomware operators that perform network-wide encryption is to steal a victim's files before...
Credential exposure report: Poor password habits still pose a serious threat
9,050,064,764 credentials have been recovered throughout 2019 which came from a total of 640 unique data breaches and include email addresses connected to plaintext passwords and usernames with plaintext passwords, SpyCloud reveals. That means, on average, each of...
Strong passwords are the key when stopping the Emotet trojan
What you need to know A newly discovered variant of the Emotet Trojan can hop from Wi-Fi network to Wi-Fi network. Emotet is a malware that can steal personal information, install ransomware, download other pieces of malware, and form botnets. The key to stopping it...
Crypto AG Unmasked: CIA Spied on Governments For Decades
A Swiss company thought to have sold among the most secure encryption products in the world was actually owned by US and German intelligence, allowing the CIA and BND to spy on allies and enemies around the world, it has emerged. A new report from The Washington...
Coronavirus-Themed Emails Deliver Malware, Phishing, Scams
Several cybersecurity companies have spotted campaigns that use coronavirus-themed emails to deliver malware, phishing attempts and scams. The new coronavirus outbreak, which started in China, has made a lot of headlines recently and has caused global panic. Over...