The Week in Ransomware – September 10th 2021 – REvil returns This week marked the return of the notorious REvil ransomware group, who disappeared in July after conducting a massive attack using a Kaseya zero-day vulnerability. Their July attack affected over 1,500 businesses and drew the full attention of international law enforcement and the White
Ukrainian Extradited for Selling 2,000 Stolen Logins Per Week The US Department of Justice has indicted a Ukrainian man for using a malware botnet to brute force computer logon credentials and then selling them on a criminal remote access marketplace. The indictment alleges that Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev operated a malware botnet that collected login credentials for multiple
GitHub Finds 7 Code Execution Vulnerabilities in ‘tar’ and npm CLI GitHub security team has identified several high-severity vulnerabilities in npm packages, “tar” and “@npmcli/arborist,” used by npm CLI. The tar package receives 20 million weekly downloads on average, whereas arborist gets downloaded over 300,000 times every week. The vulnerabilities affect both Windows and Unix-based users, and if left unpatched, can
Yandex is Battling The Largest DDoS in Russian Internet History Russian internet giant Yandex has been targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that started last week and reportedly continues this week. A report in Russian media says that the assault is the largest in the short history of the Russian internet, the RuNet, and
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