Cryptika Cybersecurity News

A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack floods a target system with massive traffic. Hackers use networks of compromised computers (botnets) to generate massive traffic, disrupting the target’s normal functioning by overloading its resources. The goal is to make a …

Web Security Scanners: The world is moving towards digitalization; from small to large, every business has a website running to showcase its services, and simultaneously, the need for Web Application Security Scanners is increasing. In addition to providing services, they …

On September 27th, Johnson Controls International announced a massive ransomware attack, that encrypted many of the company devices, including VMware ESXi servers. This impacted the company’s and its subsidiaries’ operations. The company serves clients in the government, healthcare, and naval sectors, …

The FBI has achieved a remarkable feat in the fight against cybercrime, dismantling the infamous IPStorm botnet network that infected tens of thousands of devices across various platforms worldwide.  The brains behind this criminal operation, Sergei Makinin, a dual citizen …

In a recent development, the WPScan team has unearthed a significant security flaw within the widely-used WP Fastest Cache plugin.  This vulnerability, categorized as an unauthenticated SQL injection, could potentially grant unauthorized access to sensitive data in the WordPress database. …

LNK files are shortcut files in Windows that link to a program or file. Hackers may exploit LNK files to deliver malicious payloads by disguising them as legitimate shortcuts, taking advantage of users who unknowingly click on them, and allowing …

Metasploit is an open-source penetration testing framework created by Rapid7 that enables security professionals to simulate attacks against computer systems, networks, and applications. It includes several tools and modules that can be used to test the target system’s security, detect vulnerabilities, …

Ransomed[.]vc, a notorious ransomware and data extortion group, has recently announced the end of its operations and the auction of its entire cybercrime infrastructure.  On October 30, 2023, the Telegram channel of the organization was made public. One of the …

In August of this year, McLaren Health Care suffered a cyber attack that resulted in the compromise of 2.2 million individual data records. The attackers claimed to have accessed approximately 6 terabytes of sensitive patient information, which is a significant …