Iran’s Transport Ministry Hit By A Cyberattack
Computer systems of the staff of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development were the subject of the attack which resulted in the ministry's portal and sub-portal sites becoming unavailable, the TV channel reported.
Bijay Pokharel,
July 11, 2021
1 min read
Chinese Hackers Targeting SBI Users Via Phishing Scam
Chinese hackers are targeting the State Bank of India (SBI) users with phishing scams, asking them to update their KYC using a particular website link and offering free gifts worth Rs 50 lakh from the bank via WhatsApp message.
Bijay Pokharel,
July 7, 2021
2 min read
Google Removes 9 Android Apps For Stealing Facebook Credentials
Tech giant Google has removed 9 android apps from the Play Store after it was found these apps stole user’s Facebook login credentials.
Bijay Pokharel,
July 5, 2021
1 min read
REvil Ransomware Group Demands $70 Million To Decrypt All Kaseya Attack Victims
The ransomware group behind the Kaseya supply-chain attack is demanding $70 million ransom in Bitcoin for the tool that allows all affected businesses to recover their files.
Bijay Pokharel,
July 5, 2021
1 min read
REvil Ransomware Group Is Increasing Ransom For Kaseya Ransomware Attack Victims
Last week, a massive REvil ransomware attack affects multiple managed service providers and their clients through a reported Kaseya supply-chain attack and now the ransomware gang is increasing the ransom demands.
Bijay Pokharel,
July 5, 2021
1 min read
Coop Supermarket Closes 500 Stores After Kaseya Ransomware Attack
Swedish supermarket chain Coop has shut down approximately 500 stores after they were affected by an REvil ransomware attack targeting managed service providers through a supply-chain attack.
Bijay Pokharel,
July 4, 2021
2 min read
Kaseya Urges Customers To Immediately Shut Down VSA Servers After REvil Ransomware Hits 200 Companies
A massive REvil ransomware attack affects multiple managed service providers and their clients through a reported Kaseya supply-chain attack.
Bijay Pokharel,
July 3, 2021
2 min read
An Irish Court Ordered VirusTotal To Reveal Private Info Of Stolen HSE Data Downloaders
An Irish court has ordered VirusTotal to provide the information of subscribers who downloaded or uploaded confidential data stolen from Ireland's national health care service during a ransomware attack.
Bijay Pokharel,
July 2, 2021
1 min read
LinkedIn Denies Data Breach Exposing 700 Million Users’ Profile
An American business and employment-oriented online service LinkedIn has denied reports of an alleged data breach, saying the data put up for sale online recently was "scraped" from the professional networking website cum job portal and several other internet sites as reported previously in its...
Bijay Pokharel,
June 30, 2021
1 min read
Tesorion Releases A Free Decryptor For The Lorenz Ransomware
The Lorenz ransomware uses a combination of RSA and AES-128 in CBC mode to encrypt files on an infected system. A password is generated at random for each file, and an encryption key is then derived using the CryptDeriveKey function.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 30, 2021
2 min read
Easily Exploitable Critical Vulnerabilities Patched In ProfilePress Plugin
Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for several vulnerabilities that were discovered in ProfilePress, formerly WP User Avatar, a WordPress plugin installed on over 400,000 sites.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 29, 2021
3 min read
Nobelium Hackers Accessed Microsoft Customer Support Tools
Tech giant Microsoft said Russian state-sponsored Nobelium hacking group has won access to one of its customer-service agents.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 27, 2021
1 min read
Mercedes-Benz Data Breach Exposes Social Security Number (SSN) And Credit Card Numbers
Mercedes-Benz, a German automotive brand and luxury vehicle company, has disclosed a data breach impacting some of its customers. The company assessed 1.6 million customer records which included customer names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and some purchased vehicle information to determine the impact.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 26, 2021
1 min read
Over 120K Cyber Attacks On Russia’s Critical Infrastructure Were Carried Out In 2020 : TASS
According to Russian Security Council Secretary, Nikolai Patrushev, Over 120,000 cyber attacks on Russia’s critical infrastructure were carried out in 2020, a significant number of them originated in the US, Germany and the Netherlands.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 25, 2021
1 min read
Vulnerabilities On Dell SupportAssist Put 30 Million Devices At Risk
Eclypsium researchers have identified multiple vulnerabilities affecting the BIOSConnect feature, allowing attackers to remotely execute code within the BIOS of impacted devices.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 24, 2021
3 min read
Man Arrested After Sending 25,000 Phishing Messages In A Day
Officers in Manchester city center have arrested an individual for sending fraudulent text messages to thousands of people to obtain banking details and defraud them.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 24, 2021
2 min read
ADATA Suffers Massive Data Leak In Ragnar Locker Ransomware Attack
Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA suffer a massive data leak in the Ragnar Locker Ransomware attack where hackers have published download links for more than 700GB of archived data.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 22, 2021
1 min read
Hackers Breach South Korea’s Nuclear Research Agency Through VPN Flaw
According to Ha Tae-Kyung on June 17, according to the Office of the People's Power, a hacking attack occurred on the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute on May 14. Through the vulnerability of the virtual private network (VPN) system, the history of accessing the internal...
Bijay Pokharel,
June 20, 2021
2 min read
Russia Bans VyprVPN And Opera VPN And Classified Them As Threats
Russia has banned Opera VPN and VyprVPN after classifying them as threats according to current Russian law.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 19, 2021
1 min read
Volkswagen Data Being Sold On A Hacking Forum
Last week, Volkswagen AG’s US unit disclosed a data breach at a vendor that impacted more than 3.3 million customers in North America.
Bijay Pokharel,
June 18, 2021
2 min read
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