FBI Links Diavol Ransomware to the TrickBot Cybercrime Group The FBI has formally linked the Diavol ransomware operation to the TrickBot Group, the malware developers behind the notorious TrickBot banking trojan. The TrickBot Gang, aka Wizard Spider, are the developers of malware infections that have played havoc on corporate networks Read more…
US sanctions former Ukrainian Official for Helping Russian Cyberspies The U.S. Treasury Department announced today sanctions against Volodymyr Oliynyk, a former Ukrainian official, for collecting and sharing info on critical Ukrainian infrastructure with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). “In 2021, Oliynyk worked at the direction of the FSB to gather Read more…
ProtonMail Introduces a New Email Tracker Blocking System ProtonMail has introduced an enhanced email tracking protection system for its web-based email solution that prevents senders from being tracked by recipients who open their messages. ProtonMail is an end-to-end encrypted email service based in Switzerland and uses a client-side encryption approach Read more…
WordPress Plugin Flaw Puts Users of 20,000 Sites at Phishing Risk The WordPress WP HTML Mail plugin, installed in over 20,000 sites, is vulnerable to a high-severity flaw that can lead to code injection and the distribution of convincing phishing emails. ‘WP HTML Mail’ is a plugin used for designing Read more…
Indonesia’s Central Bank Confirms Ransomware Attack, Conti Leaks Data Bank Indonesia (BI), the central bank of the Republic of Indonesia, has confirmed today that a ransomware attack hit its networks last month. During the incident, the attackers stole “non-critical data” belonging to Bank Indonesia employees before deploying ransomware payloads on Read more…
Biden Signs Memo to Boost US National Security Systems’ Defenses President Joe Biden signed a national security memorandum (NSM) on Wednesday to increase the security of national security systems part of critical US government networks used in military and intelligence activities when storing or transferring classified info. “Modernizing our cybersecurity Read more…
Cisco Bug Gives Remote Attackers Root Privileges via Debug Mode Cisco has fixed a critical security flaw discovered in the Cisco Redundancy Configuration Manager (RCM) for Cisco StarOS Software during internal security testing. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20649, enables unauthenticated attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) with root-level privileges on devices Read more…
New MoonBounce UEFI Malware Used by APT41 in Targeted Attacks Security analysts have discovered and linked MoonBounce, “the most advanced” UEFI firmware implant found in the wild so far, to the Chinese-speaking APT41 hacker group (also known as Winnti). APT41 is a notorious hacking group that has been active for at least a decade and Read more…
Microsoft Fixes Outlook Search Issues for Windows 10 Users Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing search issues for Outlook users after installing Windows 10 security updates released since November 2021. As the company explained, searches on the Outlook desktop app might fail and recent emails might not appear in search results if they’re stored locally Read more…
Crypto.com Confirms 483 Accounts Hacked, $34 million Withdrawn Crypto.com has confirmed that a multi-million dollar cyber attack led to the compromise of around 400 of its customer accounts. Although, the company’s CEO stresses that customer funds are not at risk. With regards to daily trading volume, Crypto.com is reportedly the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency trading platform Read more…
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