The FBI has been tipped to a hack of around 130,000 Asus routers, details of which are available on the dark web – for sale. To incentivize the sale, the crook has scored each router as to how useful it might be to launch attacks. Access to these devices is being sold for as little […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you are a crook and you want to break in, you might first try the front door. If you discover the front door is locked, you might try another door or a window. Same is true for hackers. As companies slowly improve their defenses on end user web sites, hackers discovered that the APIs […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Gov Warns of Ransomware Attacks on Pipeline Operations DHS’s CISA issued an alert this week to all U.S. critical infrastructure that a U.S. natural gas compressor station suffered a ransomware attack. While they claim that the attackers did not get control of the gas compression hardware, they did come damn close. The ransomware took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I was interviewed by the local affiliate of a national TV network earlier today about a hack where a young lady got her bank account emptied out in a matter of seconds after she provided a caller a single 6 digit number. Hopefully this lady will eventually get her money back, but not without a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In one case, the answer is probably. If I want to delete one of my blog posts, I can probably do that. But not if someone copied it. Which I can’t control. Then they can upload it again. I can send a DCMA take-down notice to the hosting provider, which they might ignore if they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I know I keep beating the Ransonware 2.0 drum, but there is a reason for it. There is not a good response to it other than to stop it from happening. According to media reports, Maze ransomware hackers have attacked 5 law firms in the last 30 days and 3 law firms in the last […]
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