Google Drive Flags Nearly Empty Files for ‘Copyright Infringement’ Users were left startled as Google Drive’s automated detection systems flagged a nearly empty file for copyright infringement. The file, according to one Drive user, contained nothing other than just the digit “1” within. Is digit ‘1’ copyrighted? This week, Assistant Professor at Michigan Read more…
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Ministry Hacked, Some Services Down The Canadian government department for foreign and consular relations, Global Affairs Canada was hit by a cyberattack last week. While critical services remain accessible, some online services remain unavailable, as government systems continue to recover from the attack. Also Read: This Educator Aims to Make Good Read more…
How CSA dissect cyberattacks using sophisticated gadgets On July 20, 2018, the government held a news conference to reveal that Singapore had been the victim of its worst cyberattack. Hackers had hacked the servers of SingHealth, Singapore’s largest healthcare institution group, and acquired the personal information of 1.5 million patients, Read more…
Tor Project Appeals Russian Court’s Decision to Block Access to Tor US-based Tor Project and Russian digital-rights protection org RosKomSvoboda are appealing a Russian court’s decision to block access to public Tor nodes and the project’s website. The non-profit Tor Project operates the Tor decentralized network, which runs on top Read more…
CWP Bugs Allow Code Execution as Root on Linux Servers, Patch Now Two security vulnerabilities that impact the Control Web Panel (CWP) software can be chained by unauthenticated attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) as root on vulnerable Linux servers. CWP, previously known as CentOS Web Panel, is a free Read more…
Android Malware BRATA Wipes your Device After Stealing Data The Android malware known as BRATA has added new and dangerous features to its latest version, including GPS tracking, the capacity to use multiple communication channels, and a function that performs a factory reset on the device to wipe all traces Read more…
Hackers Say they Encrypted Belarusian Railway Servers in Protest A group of hackers (known as Belarusian Cyber-Partisans) claim they breached and encrypted servers belonging to the Belarusian Railway, Belarus’s national state-owned railway company. They say their attack was prompted by Russia using Belarusian Railway’s rail transport network to move military units and equipment Read more…
Ransomware Gangs Increase Efforts to Enlist Insiders for Attacks A recent survey of 100 large (over 5,000 employees) North American IT firms shows that ransomware actors are making greater effort to recruit insiders in targeted firms to aid in attacks. The survey was conducted by Hitachi ID, which performed a Read more…
SonicWall Explains Why Firewalls were Caught in Reboot Loops In a weekend update, SonicWall said the widespread reboot loops that impacted next-gen firewalls worldwide were caused by signature updates published on Thursday evening not being correctly processed. According to online complaints from admins [1, 2, 3], devices from all Gen 7 firewall series running SonicOS Read more…
Malicious PowerPoint Files Used to Push Remote Access Trojans Since December 2021, a growing trend in phishing campaigns has emerged that uses malicious PowerPoint documents to distribute various types of malware, including remote access and information-stealing trojans. According to a report by Netskope’s Threat Labs shared with Bleeping Computer before Read more…
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