Russian courts and government agencies have been hit by a previously-undocumented strain of data-wiping malware known as CryWiper. It poses as ransomware, but isn’t interested in making money out of its victims… Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsLupovis used decoys to find out more about threat actors
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A version of an open source ransomware toolkit called Cryptonite has been observed in the wild with wiper capabilities due to its “weak architecture and programming.” Cryptonite, unlike other ransomware strains, is not available for sale on the cybercriminal underground, and was instead offered for free by an actor named CYBERDEVILZ until recently through a GitHub repository. […]
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Palo Alto Networks today rolled out a new Medical IoT Security offering, designed to provide improved visibility, automated monitoring and more for hitherto vulnerable healthcare IoT frameworks, thanks to machine learning and adherence to zero trust principles. Medical device security is a serious problem for most organizations in healthcare, with a long string of reported […]
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In December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba, one of the Internet’s largest and oldest botnets. The defendants, who initially pursued a strategy of counter suing Google for tortious interference in their sprawling cybercrime business, later brazenly offered to dismantle the botnet in exchange […]
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Posted by Benjamin Ackerman (Chrome Security and Jonathan Li (Safe Browsing) As a follow-up to a previous blog post about How Hash-Based Safe Browsing Works in Google Chrome, we wanted to provide more details about Safe Browsing’s Enhanced Protection mode in Chrome. Specifically, how it came about, the protections that are offered and what it […]
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It’s a venerable program, and this version had a venerable bug in it.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe known impact was isolated to a portion of the firm’s Hosted Exchange platform
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