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Cyber company in India offered hacking services to help others spy on email accounts of politicians, journalists, and investors Litlle-known Indian IT firm secretly offered the global hackers-for-hire service that helped to spy on email accounts over the span of seven years.[1] The New Dehli-based BellTroX InfoTech Services firm targeted officials […]

Indian IT firm offered a global hackers-for-hire service for 7 ...

June 13, 2020 in Security / Virus tagged malware / News / Security / trojan / Virus by webmanager

The city of Knoxville became a victim of the ransomware attack Knoxville, with a population of over 180,000 joined Atlanta, Baltimore, Denver, and other cities on the list with states and municipal entities that suffered ransomware attacks. The city was forced to shut down the entire computer network when the […]

Knoxville joins the club: IT network gets shut down after ...

June 12, 2020 in Virus tagged malware / News / trojan / Virus / Viruses and parasites by webmanager

Cybercriminals switched from Covid-19 pandemic scams to the Black Lives Matter movement scams Vote anonymous about “Black Lives Matter”[1] – that’s a subject line of scam emails that have been spotted on the landscape in the first half of June 2020. Since the beginning of the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic, hackers […]

Black Lives Matter campaign misused by Trickbot malware

June 11, 2020 in Virus tagged malware / News / trojan / Virus / Viruses and parasites by webmanager

Information gathering is a common practice It might not come as a surprise that advertisers, tech companies, websites, or social networks are gathering information about you to deliver targeted advertisements, even though users were inadequately informed about such practice for years. While you most likely have nothing to hide, there […]

Government is spying on you: ways to protect yourself

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

STOP/Djvu ransomware victims – do not download a free decryptor unless it’s official or you will get your files re-encrypted Free STOP/Djvu ransomware decryptor for the latest versions of this dangerous virus – sounds good to be true, isn’t it? At the very beginning of June 2020, cybersecurity researchers spotted […]

Warning! Fake Djvu decryptor spreads Zorab ransomware

June 9, 2020 in Virus tagged malware / News / trojan / Virus / Viruses and parasites by webmanager

This ransomware hides its payload in a Java image file, preventing detection on Windows and Linux systems Researchers at BlackBerry Threat Intelligence have spotted a new surge of Tycoon ransomware infections across software and education sections.[1] The malware is relatively new, as it was first spotted in the wild in […]

Unique attack vector: Tycoon ransomware targets corporate networks

June 8, 2020 in Virus tagged malware / News / trojan / Virus / Viruses and parasites by webmanager

Crooks behind REvil ransomware found an extra income source – stolen data auction REvil[1] ransomware, a.k.a. Sodinokibi, managers keep inventing the ways of getting rich even if the victims refuse to pay the ransom. Researchers[2] revealed a new section called Happy Blog Auction (new) in the gang-operated leak site on […]

REvil auction: higher bidder – better piece of data

June 6, 2020 in Virus tagged malware / News / trojan / Virus / Viruses and parasites by webmanager

CPA Canada hit by the cyberattack affecting nearly 330,000 individuals Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada[1], a.k.a. CPA Canada revealed a data breach[2] that affected nearly 330k members of the association. According to cybersecurity researchers, the attack has been initiated against the servers of the association, including the official website the […]

CPA Canada data breach allowed hackers to leak 330k account ...

June 4, 2020 in Virus tagged malware / News / Spam and phishing / trojan / Virus by webmanager

IT security company Digital Management LLC breached by ransomware gang that steals sensitive data during the attack One of the successful cybercriminal gangs, DoppelPaymer, which runs illegal ransomware business and attacks high-profile targets, has breached Digital Management LLC, as claimed by perpetrators on their leaks website. The Maryland-based IT company is one […]

NASA’s contractor Digital Management hit by DoppelPaymer ransomware

June 3, 2020 in Virus tagged malware / News / trojan / Virus / Viruses and parasites by webmanager

System takeover is possible through new SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise vulnerabilities Flaws in SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) allow unauthorized users to gain full control of the database and operating systems in some cases,[1] according to new research conducted by the Trustwave team.[2] These six flaws in the Sybase Adaptive Server […]

Researchers reveal that patched SAP ASE flaws could lead to ...

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