Ransomware Sodinokibi (also known as Sodin or REvil) used an old Windows zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2018-8453) to improve management access to infected hosts. In October 2018, Microsoft fixed the vulnerability. Since August 2018, the vulnerability has...
According to a research report released by F5 Labs, a hacker organization is using new Golang malware to attack Linux-based servers. The Golang malware was first discovered in mid-2018 and the attack lasted throughout...
According to Trend Micro researchers, the TA505 hacker group is spreading new malware called Gelup and FlowerPippi through spam campaigns, which are used to target entities from the Middle East, Japan, India, the Philippines,...
Over 10 million users have been tricked into installing a fake Samsung firmware update app called “Updates for Samsung,” which promises a firmware update, but actually redirects users to an ad-filled site. The firmware...
In order to improve the security of the domain name resolution service, a solution called DNS over HTTPS (DoH for short) was introduced in the industry. However, the researchers at Network Security Research Lab...
Security research firm Intego discovered the latest Mac malware OSX/CrescentCore, and the malware is still disguised as a Flash player update. In order to attract users to download and run OSX/CrescentCore, websites containing OSX/CrescentCore...
The United Kingdom (UK) National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert about the Ryuk ransomware attack, which was launched in conjunction with the Emotet and TrickBot malware. The researchers found that the Ryuk...
After the city of Riviera City, Florida, became the first city to agree to pay a ransom up to $600,000 to hackers, another city in Florida, Lake City announced the same response. Lake City...
A new type of malicious program is destroying the firmware of the IoT device, similar to the BrickerBot malicious program that destroyed millions of devices in 2017. The malware is called Silex, which shuts...
The usage of Microsoft OneDrive for hosting malicious files has increased significantly. According to the FireEye report, Microsoft OneDrive surged more than 60% in the number of users who hosted malicious files in the...
A ransomware gang has destroyed at least three managed service providers (MSP) facilities and deployed their remote management tool, the WebrootSecureAnywhere console, to deploy ransomware on MSP’s client systems. Hackers invade MSP through exposed...
The Kaspersky security team discovered a new type of malware in the wild in February. The new malware, called Plurox, is much more dangerous than the common malware that security researchers encounter in their...
The topic of ransomware seems to be not over in a short period of time. In these topics, we also recommend that victims not pay ransoms to ransomware. Because the payment of the ransom...
Users who are concerned about security information should probably remember MIRAI a few years ago, the MIRAI worm is still the world’s wildest IoT virus until now. In the past, MIRAI used the Internet...
The development team behind the well-known ransomware GandCrab announced that it had made a profit of $2.5 billion. At this time, Bitdefender and the law enforcement agencies successfully found the decryption key of the...
The EternalBlue and EternalBlue-based series of vulnerabilities have caused a lot of trouble around the world, and unfortunately, these tools of the National Security Agency seem to be used by hackers to distribute cryptocurrency...
