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  • February 5, 2023

New Wave of Ransomware Attacks Exploiting VMware Bug to Target ESXi Servers

VMware ESXi hypervisors are the target of a new wave of attacks designed to deploy ransomware on compromised systems. “These attack campaigns appear to exploit CVE-2021-21974, for which a patch has been available since February 23, 2021,” the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of France said in an advisory on Friday. VMware, in its own alert released […]

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  • February 5, 2023

PixPirate: New Android Banking Trojan Targeting Brazilian Financial Institutions

A new Android banking trojan has set its eyes on Brazilian financial institutions to commit fraud by leveraging the PIX payments platform. Italian cybersecurity company Cleafy, which discovered the malware between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, is tracking it under the name PixPirate. “PixPirate belongs to the newest generation of Android […]

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  • February 5, 2023

Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France

Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show […]

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Friday Squid Blogging: Studying the Colossal Squid

A survey of giant squid science. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.

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MalVirt Loaders Exploit .NET Virtualization to Deliver Malvertising Attacks

The new loaders also leverage obfuscated virtualization techniques to avoid detection

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Arnold Clark Confirms Customer Data Compromised in Breach

Affected data includes names, contact details, vehicle details and ID documents, among others

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Google Fi Confirms Data Breach, Hints At Link to T-Mobile Hack

The company uses a combination of T-Mobile and US Cellular for network connectivity

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  • February 1, 2023

Ubuntu on AWS ARM EC2

Posts by Teri Radichel about using Ubuntu on AWS ARM EC2 Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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NanoLock Addresses Global Industrial & OT Cyber Demand with Expansions into Europe and North America

To meet a pressing demand for industrial and OT security, zero-trust, device-level cybersecurity provider expands with strategic hires in new and established markets.

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