Lessons Learned on Ransomware Prevention from the Rackspace Attack
The ransomware saga for organizations worldwide continues to unfold as we move into 2023. On December 2, 2022, Rackspace, a major cloud computing company that…
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Money Lover for Android & iOS leaked email addresses, transactions
A flaw in the Money Lover financial app for Android, iOS, and Windows allowed any logged-in member to see the email addresses and live transaction…
PayPal and Twitter abused in Turkey relief donation scams
Scammers are now exploiting the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Turkey and Syria: this time stealing donations by abusing legitimate platforms like PayPal and Twitter. This week, high…
Android 14 to block malware from abusing sensitive permissions
Google has announced the release of the first developer preview for Android 14, the next major version of the world’s most popular mobile operating system,…
Malicious Dota 2 game mods infected players with malware
Security researchers have discovered four malicious Dota 2 game mods that were used by a threat actor to backdoor the players’ systems. The unknown attacker created four game…
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…
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…