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During the Covid-19 outbreak, HHS servers suffer a DDoS attack attempting to cause disruption According to news reports,[1] on this Sunday night, The United States Health and Human Service Department was hit by the cyber attack. Criminals attempted to take department’s servers offline in the middle of the Coronavirus outbreak. […]

U.S Health and Human Services network hit by DDoS attack

March 17, 2020 in Security / Virus tagged malware / News / Security / trojan / Virus by webmanager

University Hospital Brno is used to test patients for coronavirus infections – cyberattack halts the operations The second-largest hospital in the Czech Republic was hit by a massive cyberattack in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak. The incident happened on Friday night, which prompted the authorities to close down the […]

Hospital Brno in Czechia hit by a cyberattack during COVID-19 ...

March 16, 2020 in Security / Virus tagged malware / News / Security / trojan / Virus by webmanager

Necurs is the largest botnet that managed to infect more than 9 million computers worldwide Microsoft managed to take down an entire infrastructure of Necurs – the largest botnet in the world that was used by cybercriminals to distribute spam and infect computer users with malware across the globe. Eight […]

Necurs botnet majorly disrupted by Microsoft and partners

March 11, 2020 in Security / Virus tagged malware / News / Security / trojan / Virus by webmanager

Jury unable to reach the verdict in the trial: minor conviction for an ex-CIA coder responsible for the massive Vault 7 leak A federal judge in New York declared a mistrial in the case of former CIA coder on Monday.[1] Joshua Schulte was accused of stealing a massive amount of […]

WikiLeaks mistrial: ex CIA engineer found not guilty for gathering ...

March 10, 2020 in Virus tagged malware / News / trojan / Virus by webmanager

A significant five-year vulnerability in Intel Chipsets discovered, only the latest Intel 10th generation CPUs not affected It seems that hackers can compromise almost all Intel processors released in the past 5 years because of the unpatchable vulnerability found in a widely distributed model of chipsets released by Intel.[1] Also identified […]

The unfixable Intel bug affects more people than it was ...

March 9, 2020 in Virus tagged malware / News / trojan / Virus / Web browsers and vulnerabilities by webmanager

Virgin Media data leak – an unprotected marketing database to blame Virgin Media, one of the largest internet and TV cable provider in the UK, has announced a data breach which affected over 900,000 of its customers, which represents 15% of the customer base. According to the notice published on […]

900,000 customers affected by Virgin Media data breach

March 6, 2020 in Security / Virus tagged malware / News / Security / trojan / Virus by webmanager

Unauthorized investigation reveals that the international e-discovery company Epiq Global been hit by ransomware The international e-discovery company Epiq Global was forced to take systems offline after the unauthorized activity.[1] Legal services giant got hit by Ryuk ransomware and malware started to encrypt data in devices throughout the network until […]

Ryuk ransomware is back: Epiq Global down due to unauthorized ...

March 5, 2020 in Virus tagged malware / News / trojan / Virus / Viruses and parasites by webmanager

Security researchers claim that CIA hacked Chinese industries and government agencies to obtain intelligence information CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) was conducting cyber-espionage activities on Chinese government institutions and various industries, as the report by Qihoo 360, published on Tuesday, claims.[1] Qihoo 360, one of the most reputable cybersecurity firms, become the […]

Qihoo 360: CIA was monitoring Chinese industries for 11 years

March 4, 2020 in Security / Virus tagged malware / News / Security / trojan / Virus by webmanager

The US charges two Chinese men for helping North Korean actors steal over $250 Million Two men from China helped the North Korean hacker group to steal cryptocurrency, according to recent court documents.[1] The Us Department of Justice charged the two for laundering $100 million worth of cryptocurrency that got […]

Two Chinese men got charged for money laundering and helping ...

March 3, 2020 in Security / Virus tagged malware / News / Security / trojan / Virus by webmanager

RailWorks Corporation ransomware infection potentially compromised personal details of its employees One of the largest US railroad transport provider RailWorks Corporation has suffered a ransomware attack, which also resulted in a data breach of former and current of its employees. As the company reported to the State of California Department of […]

Data breach at RailWorks Corporation was caused by ransomware attack

March 2, 2020 in Virus tagged malware / News / trojan / Virus / Viruses and parasites by webmanager