US NIST unveils winning encryption algorithm for IoT data protection
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that ASCON is the winning bid for the “lightweight cryptography” program to find the best algorithm…
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New ESXiArgs ransomware version prevents VMware ESXi recovery
New ESXiArgs ransomware attacks are now encrypting more extensive amounts of data, making it much harder, if not impossible, to recover encrypted VMware ESXi virtual machines.…
Tor and I2P networks hit by wave of ongoing DDoS attacks
If you’ve been experiencing Tor network connectivity and performance issues lately, you’re not the only one since many others have had problems with onion and…
SonicWall warns web content filtering is broken on Windows 11 22H2
Security hardware manufacturer SonicWall warned customers today of what it describes as a “limitation” of the web content filtering (WCF) feature on Windows 11, version…
Weee! grocery service confirms data breach, 1.1 million affected
The Weee! Asian and Hispanic food delivery service suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of 1.1 million customers. Weee! claims to be the…
Malicious Dota 2 game modes infected players with malware
Security researchers have discovered four malicious Dota 2 game modes that were used by a threat actor to backdoor the players’ systems. The unknown attacker created four…
Microsoft Edge will switch to Adobe Acrobat’s PDF rendering engine
Microsoft and Adobe have partnered to integrate the Adobe Acrobat PDF rendering engine directly into the Edge browser, replacing the existing PDF engine. Starting in…
Drug distributor AmerisourceBergen confirms security breach
Pharmaceutical distributor AmerisourceBergen confirmed that hackers compromised the IT system of one of its subsidiaries after threat actors began leaking allegedly stolen data. AmerisourceBergen is…
Over 12% of analyzed online stores expose private data, backups
Many online stores are exposing private backups in public folders, including internal account passwords, which can be leveraged to take over the e-commerce sites and…
CISA releases recovery script for ESXiArgs ransomware victims
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a script to recover VMware ESXi servers encrypted by the recent widespread ESXiArgs ransomware attacks.…
New QakNote attacks push QBot malware via Microsoft OneNote files
A new QBot malware campaign dubbed “QakNote” has been observed in the wild since last week, using malicious Microsoft OneNote’ .one’ attachments to infect systems…
Microsoft launches new AI chat-powered Bing and Edge browser
Microsoft announced on Tuesday a new version of its Bing search engine powered by a next-generation OpenAI language model more powerful than ChatGPT and specially…