The Week In Ransomware – February 26th 2021 – Back From The Holidays The number of attacks had slowed down after the winter holidays, but after the past two weeks, it’s evident that the ransomware attacks are back at full speed. Over the past two weeks, we had some significant Read more…
Twitter Scammers Earned Over $145k This Week In Bitcoin, Ethereum, Doge Cryptocurrency scammers have made at least $145,000 this week by promoting fake giveaways through hacked verified Twitter accounts. Last month, we reported an increasing trend where verified Twitter accounts are hacked to promote fake cryptocurrency giveaways. At the time, these Read more…
T-Mobile Discloses Data Breach After SIM Swapping Attacks American telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after an unknown number of customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. SIM swap fraud (or SIM hijacking) allows scammers to take control of targets’ phone numbers after porting them using social Read more…
Ryuk Ransomware Now Self-spreads To Other Windows LAN Devices A new Ryuk ransomware variant with worm-like capabilities that allow it to spread to other devices on victims’ local networks has been discovered by the French national cyber-security agency while investigating an attack in early 2021. “Through the use of scheduled Read more…
Malicious Firefox Extension Allowed Hackers To Hijack Gmail Accounts Several Tibetan organizations were targeted in a cyber-espionage campaign by a state-backed hacking group using a malicious Firefox extension designed to hijack Gmail accounts and infect victims with malware. The attacks coordinated by the TA413 Chinese-linked APT group started in January and continued throughout February, Read more…
Intel Wireless Driver Updates Fix Windows 10 Blue Screen Issues Intel has addressed Wi-Fi and Wireless Bluetooth drivers issues causing Windows 10 blue screen of death (BSOD) errors and Bluetooth devices to lose connection or stop working. Users are urged to install the updated Wi-Fi drivers (Intel PROSet/Wireless Software 22.30.0 ) and Read more…
XBOX Live Outage Prevents Players From Logging In Xbox Live outage is suffering a worldwide outage that prevents users from logging into the service and accessing games. The outage started at approximately 3 PM EST and affects both Xbox Live and apps that rely on it, such as Windows 10’s Read more…
Microsoft Removes 3D Objects, Windows 10’s Most Useless Folder, From File Explorer Microsoft is no longer treating possibly the most unused folder, 3D Objects, as a special folder in File Explorer. With the release of Windows 10 1703, otherwise known as the Creators Update, Microsoft included a new application called ‘3D Read more…
Dutch Research Council (NWO) Confirms Ransomware Attack, Data Leak The recent cyberattack that forced the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to take its servers offline and suspend grant allocation processes was caused by the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang. The hackers gained access to NWO’s network on February 8 and stole internal documents, Read more…
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