Hackers Exploit Log4j Vulnerability to Infect Computers with Khonsari Ransomware

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Romanian cybersecurity technology company Bitdefender on Monday revealed that attempts are being made to target Windows machines with a novel ransomware family called Khonsari as well as a remote access Trojan named Orcus by …

Ransomware Affiliate Arrested in Romania; 51 Stolen Data Brokers Arrested in Ukraine

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Europol, the European Union’s premier law enforcement agency, has announced the arrest of a third Romanian national for his role as a ransomware affiliate suspected of hacking high-profile organizations and companies and …

Latest Apple iOS Update Patches Remote Jailbreak Exploit for iPhones

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Apple on Monday released updates to iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS with security patches for multiple vulnerabilities, including a remote jailbreak exploit chain as well as a number of critical issues in the Kernel and …

Karakurt: A New Emerging Data Theft and Cyber Extortion Hacking Group

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A previously undocumented, financially motivated threat group has been connected to a string of data theft and extortion attacks on over 40 entities between September and November 2021. The hacker …

Microsoft Details Building Blocks of Widely Active Qakbot Banking Trojan

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Infection chains associated with the multi-purpose Qakbot malware have been broken down into “distinct building blocks,” an effort that Microsoft said will help to proactively detect and block the threat …

Apache Log4j Vulnerability — Log4Shell — Widely Under Active Attack

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Threat actors are actively weaponizing unpatched servers affected by the newly identified “Log4Shell” vulnerability in Log4j to install cryptocurrency miners, Cobalt Strike, and recruit the devices into a botnet, even …

BlackCat: A New Rust-based Ransomware Malware Spotted in the Wild

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Details have emerged about what’s the first Rust-language-based ransomware strain spotted in the wild that has already amassed “some victims from different countries” since its launch last month. The ransomware, …

Extremely Critical Log4J Vulnerability Leaves Much of the Internet at Risk

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The Apache Software Foundation has released fixes to contain an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting the widely-used Apache Log4j Java-based logging library that could be weaponized to execute malicious code and allow a …