No fewer than 70 websites operated by the Ukrainian government went offline on Friday for hours in what appears to be a coordinated cyber attack amid heightened tensions with Russia. …
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Russia Arrests REvil Ransomware Gang Responsible for High-Profile Cyber Attacks
In an unprecedented move, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the country’s principal security agency, on Friday disclosed that it arrested several members belonging to the notorious REvil ransomware gang and …
GootLoader Hackers Targeting Employees of Law and Accounting Firms
Operators of the GootLoader campaign are setting their sights on employees of accounting and law firms as part of a fresh onslaught of widespread cyberattacks to deploy malware on infected …
Cisco Releases Patch for Critical Bug Affecting Unified CCMP and Unified CCDM
Cisco Systems has rolled out security updates for a critical security vulnerability affecting Unified Contact Center Management Portal (Unified CCMP) and Unified Contact Center Domain Manager (Unified CCDM) that could …
Husband-Wife Arrested in Ukraine for Ransomware Attacks on Foreign Companies
Ukrainian police authorities have nabbed five members of a gang that’s believed to have helped orchestrate attacks against more than 50 companies across Europe and the U.S and caused losses …
U.K. Hacker Jailed for Spying on Children and Downloading Indecent Images
A man from the U.K. city of Nottingham has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for illegally breaking into the phones and computers of a number of …
Iranian Hackers Exploit Log4j Vulnerability to Deploy PowerShell Backdoor
An Iranian state-sponsored actor has been observed scanning and attempting to abuse the Log4Shell flaw in publicly-exposed Java applications to deploy a hitherto undocumented PowerShell-based modular backdoor dubbed “CharmPower” for …
Researchers Decrypted Qakbot Banking Trojan’s Encrypted Registry Keys
Cybersecurity researchers have decoded the mechanism by which the versatile Qakbot banking trojan handles the insertion of encrypted configuration data into the Windows Registry. Qakbot, also known as QBot, QuackBot and …
Hackers Use Cloud Services to Distribute Nanocore, Netwire, and AsyncRAT Malware
Threat actors are actively incorporating public cloud services from Amazon and Microsoft into their malicious campaigns to deliver commodity remote access trojans (RATs) such as Nanocore, Netwire, and AsyncRAT to siphon sensitive information from …