The Week in Ransomware – January 7th 2022 – Watch Out for USB drives With the holidays these past two weeks, there have been only a few known ransomware attacks and little research released. At the end of December, a new enterprise-targeting ransomware operation called Night Sky was launched, but it is Read more…
SonicWall: Y2K22 Bug Hits Email Security, Firewall Products SonicWall has confirmed today that some of its Email Security and firewall products have been hit by the Y2K22 bug, causing message log updates and junk box failures starting with January 1st, 2022. The company says that email users and administrators will no longer be Read more…
FBI: Hackers Use BadUSB to Target Defense Firms with Ransomware The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned US companies in a recently updated flash alert that the financially motivated FIN7 cybercriminal group targeted the US defense industry with packages containing malicious USB devices to deploy ransomware. The attackers mailed packages Read more…
FluBot Malware Now Targets Europe Posing as Flash Player App The widely distributed FluBot malware continues to evolve, with new campaigns distributing the malware as Flash Player and the developers adding new features. FluBot is an Android banking trojan that steals credentials by displaying overlay login forms against many banks Read more…
Diversity Job Board Canvas.com Ordered to Stop Using Domain Name Diversity recruiting site Canvas.com has been ordered by a U.S. district judge to drop the use of the domain name over a trademark dispute. Learning management platform Instructure claims the domain name Canvas.com and its logo contain elements that conflict with Read more…
US Counterintelligence Shares Tips to Block Spyware Attacks The US National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and the Department of State have jointly published guidance on defending against attacks using commercial surveillance tools. Tips shared in the joint advisory are designed to help people at risk of being targeted by surveillance Read more…
NHS Warns of Hackers Exploiting Log4Shell in VMware Horizon UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has published a cyber alert warning of an unknown threat group targeting VMware Horizon deployments with Log4Shell exploits. Log4Shell is an exploit for CVE-2021-44228, a critical arbitrary remote code execution flaw in the Apache Log4j 2.14, which Read more…
QNAP Warns of Ransomware Targeting Internet-exposed NAS Devices QNAP has warned customers today to secure Internet-exposed network-attached storage (NAS) devices immediately from ongoing ransomware and brute-force attacks. “QNAP urges all QNAP NAS users to follow the security setting instructions below to ensure the security of QNAP networking devices,” the Taiwanese Read more…
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