Re-emerging Dharma Ransomware distributed with new variant that developed to attack various organisation and individual systems and encrypting the victim files to demand the ransom amount. It added various futures and tactics to infiltrate the victims computer when compare old version of Dharma Ransomware. Unlike old version, it using various infections vectors such as Spam and phishing emails, Exploit Kits, SMB vulnerabilities and dropped by other malware. Old...
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MassMiner – a cryptocurrency mining malware which is exploiting EternalBlue (CVE-2017-0143),[1] Apache Struts (CVE-2017-5638),[2] and Oracle WebServer (CVE-2017-10271)[3] vulnerabilities to hijack local and enterprise web servers. Initiating brute force attacks, the miner takes control over Microsoft SQL Servers and starts mining Monero cryptocurrency by consuming an excessive amount of system’s CPU and GPU resources. AlienVault,[4] the developer of commercial and open source solutions to manage cyber attacks, and the...
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Kaspersky Lab has discovered a brand new cyber-spying campaign targeting Android users via Telegram chat app and infected websites while watering holes is the preferred attack vector. Watering holes is a technique in which famous websites are infected with malware so that visitors unknowingly get their devices infected. The main targets of this campaign are users in the Middle East and North Africa (primarily Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iran)....
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It would be nice to imagine that if the various contenders for “inventor of the password” had known how much of a hassle its computer variety would end up posing centuries later, they would never have bothered. Or maybe that inventor – perhaps a Gileadite or Roman soldier – just didn’t care about the tradeoff between security and convenience that would plague us in the internet era....
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month approved a firmware patch for pacemakers made by Abbott’s (formerly St Jude Medical) that are vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks and which are at risk of sudden battery loss. Some 465,000 patients are affected. The FDA is recommending that all eligible patients get the firmware update “at their next regularly scheduled visit or when appropriate depending on the preferences of the...
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