BIG Sabotage: Famous npm Package Deletes Files to Protest Ukraine War This month, the developer behind the popular npm package ‘node-ipc’ released sabotaged versions of the library in protest of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. Newer versions of the ‘node-ipc’ package began deleting all data and overwriting all files on developer’s machines, in addition to creating new text files with “peace” messages.
Unsecured Microsoft SQL, MySQL Servers Hit by Gh0stCringe Malware Hackers target poorly secured Microsoft SQL and MySQL database servers to deploy the Gh0stCringe remote access trojans on vulnerable devices. Gh0stCringe, aka CirenegRAT, is a variant of Gh0st RAT malware that was most recently deployed in 2020 Chinese cyber-espionage operations but dates as far back as 2018. In
Facebook Removes Deepfake of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy Facebook has removed a deepfake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spreading across the social network and asking Ukrainian troops lay down their arms and surrender. “Earlier today, our teams identified and removed a deepfake video claiming to show President Zelensky issuing a statement he never did,” said Nathaniel Gleicher,
Microsoft Defender Tags Office Updates as Ransomware Activity Windows admins were hit today by a wave of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint false positives where Office updates were tagged as malicious in alerts pointing to ransomware behavior detected on their systems. According to Windows system admins reports [1, 2, 3, 4], this started happening several hours ago and, in some
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