As if ransomware wasn’t bad enough in the past. As if ransomware 2.0 didn’t make you lose sleep. If you thought that the pandemic was slowing down cyberattacks. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. We are seeing new ransomware strains pop up at an alarming rate. In just the past couple of months […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cloudflare DNS Goes Down Taking A Big Chunk of the Internet Down Good news and bad news. For companies like Shopify, League of Legends and Politico, among many others, Friday afternoon gave you a headache. You outsourced your DNS to Cloudflare and they had a burp. The good news is that because they are Cloudflare […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the Maze ransomware group continues to hit new targets like banks and defense contractors, among many others, those companies, in many cases, decide to restore their systems from backups and not pay the ransom. So Maze decided to nuance their crime and steal (or exfiltrate) the data before encrypting it. That way, if the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Contact Tracing Horror Begins The UK is now saying that all of the contact data that they are collecting from the app people install on their smart phones – that data may be kept by the government forever and no, you can’t ask them to delete it. Credit: The Register Singapore will require smartphone […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China, Korea, Vietnam Escalate Hacking During Covid-19 Outbreak The Trump administration is calling out China for hacking our hospitals and research facilities who are looking for cures and vaccines for Covid-19. That should not be much of a surprise since China has always opted for stealing solutions vs. figuring them out themselves. At least that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Covid-19 Driven Online Shopping Encouraging More Skimming Attacks Since crooks go where the money is and since we are all doing a lot online shopping during the shelter in place directives, the crooks put two and two together to come up with an attack strategy. Malwarebytes says that they are seeing a 26% increase in […]
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