Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that by 2031, ransomware will bring about $265 billion in losses to victims each year; this amount is based on a 30% year-on-year increase in damage costs over the next 10...
GitHub recently released its updated community guidelines, explaining how the company will deal with vulnerabilities and malware samples hosted on its services. Security researcher Nguyen Jang uploaded a proof-of-concept (PoC) to GitHub in March,...
While companies are struggling under continuous ransomware attacks, Android users are increasingly becoming targets of banking malware. According to a survey by the security agency ESET, the number of such malware has increased by...
After ransomware has repeatedly attacked US government agencies, universities, medical institutions, private enterprises, and even infrastructure, the US government has begun to crack down on ransomware attacks. According to Reuters, the US Department of...
Extension stores that rely entirely on automated censorship are more susceptible to false and malicious extensions. Chrome Web Store falls into this category. Nowadays, there are more and more extensions in this store, but...
Earlier, Colonial Pipeline, the largest oil product pipeline transportation company in the United States, was attacked by ransomware, and the company’s oil product transportation system was subsequently taken offline. This led to serious supply...
The US oil pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline was attacked by ransomware earlier, and its entire support system was encrypted and had to be taken offline urgently. After the support system went offline, it caused...
A dark web security researcher known as DarkTracer has been tracking the data breach sites of thirty-four ransomware groups and said that they have now leaked the data of 2,103 organizations. In the beginning,...
Researchers at Proofpoint discovered a new variant of the Buer malware loader that was distributed through emails disguised as shipping notices. Buer is a download program sold on the underground market and first appeared...
Recently, researchers discovered that Linux malware with a backdoor function has existed for many years and has not been known. Using this malware allows attackers to obtain and transmit sensitive information from the device...
The latest “The State of Ransomware 2021” report released by professional IT security and protection company Sophos pointed out that the average total cost of ransomware attacks has more than doubled in one year,...
Intel and Microsoft will jointly launch a new cooperative project to help small and medium-sized enterprises prevent network security issues, such as preventing computers from being used by hackers for mining. This new protection...
Homebrew is a free and open-source software package management system that simplifies the installation of software on Apple’s operating system macOS as well as Linux. The name is intended to suggest the idea of...
According to a security research report released by security software developer Dr.Web, a variety of tools and games with malicious modules appeared in Huawei’s official app store. Huawei AppGallery is an app store developed...
Google Play Store is the most important application download platform for the Android platform, but there are many websites and platforms outside the Google Store that provide application download services. Especially for users who...
A “2020 Consumer Threat Landscape Report” released by Bitdefender shows that compared with 2019, the number of ransomware attacks in 2020 has increased by 485%. Attacks in the first and second quarters accounted for...
