Will Garmin Pay $10 Million Ransom To End Two-Day Outage? Garmin is reportedly being asked to pay a $10 million ransom to free its systems from a cyberattack that has taken down many of its services for two days. The navigation company was hit by a ransomware attack on Thursday, leaving Read more…
Garmin Outage Caused By Confirmed Wastedlocker Ransomware Attack 08/01/20 Update: Sources had told BleepingComputer that Garmin paid the ransomware. Today, in a new article we describe how we obtained the WastedLocker decryptor acquired by Garmin and a restoration package created by their IT department. Wearable device maker Garmin shut down some of its connected services Read more…
The Week In Ransomware – July 24th 2020 – Navigation Failure This week has been quite busy with a new enterprise targeting ransomware called Exorcist and attacks against large companies. The biggest news this week is the attack on Garmin who suffered a worldwide outage since July 23rd. Today, BleepingComputer Read more…
Twitter Hackers Read Private Messages Of 36 High-Profile Accounts Twitter today admitted that the attackers behind last week’s incident read the private messages of 36 out of a total of 130 high-profile accounts targeted in the attack. Among these, the hackers also accessed the Twitter inbox of Geert Wilders, a Dutch elected official and the leader Read more…
An Update On Our Security Incident As our investigation continues, we’re sharing an update to answer some of the remaining questions based on what we’ve discovered to date. We will provide a more detailed technical report on what occurred at a later date given the ongoing law enforcement investigation and Read more…
Facebook Rolls Out App Lock And New Privacy Settings For Messenger On iOS Image source: Facebook. One month after testing new privacy features for the iOS Messenger app, Facebook announced that they are available now on the iPhone and iPad. App Lock, which is an optional security feature, uses the Read more…
Coinbase Blocked Twitter Hackers From Stealing An Extra $280K Coinbase says that it was able to block its customers from sending approximately $280,000 to the Twitter hackers who, last week, took over high-profile accounts to push a massive bitcoin scam. The US-based cryptocurrency exchange, home to over 35 million users from 100 Read more…
Lorien Health Services Discloses Ransomware Attack Affecting Nearly 50,000 Lorien Health Services in Maryland announced that it was the victim of a ransomware incident in early June. Data was stolen and then encrypted during the incident. Responsible for the attack are Netwalker ransomware operators, who leaked the information after Lorien Read more…
DeepSource Resets Logins After Employee Falls For Sawfish Phishing GitHub notified DeepSource earlier this month of detecting malicious activity related to the startup’s GitHub app after one of their employees fell victim to the Sawfish phishing campaign. DeepSource provides developers with automated static code analysis tools for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories that help Read more…
US Indicts Hackers Working With China’s Ministry Of State Security Two hackers working with China’s Ministry of State Security were charged with hacking into computer systems of government organizations and companies in the United States and around the world, stealing terabytes of data in the process. Chinese nationals and residents LI Read more…
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