Backups are one the most, if not the most, important defense against ransomware, but if not configured properly, attackers will use it against you.
0The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has released guidance on how to correctly set up smart security cameras and baby monitors to avoid having them hacked by attackers.
0BSI, Germany's federal cybersecurity agency, recommends local governments and municipal institutions not to pay the ransoms asked by attackers after they get affected by ransomware attacks.
0Chinese security vendor Qihoo 360 says that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has hacked Chinese organizations for the last 11 years, targeting various industry sectors and government agencies.
0The Nemty Ransomware is the latest cybercrime operation to create a data leak site to punish victims who refuse to pay ransoms.
0Two Chinese nationals were charged today by the US Dept of Justice and sanctioned by the US Treasury for allegedly laundering over $100 million worth of cryptocurrency out of the nearly $250 million stolen by North Korean actors known as Lazarus Group after hacking a cryptocurrency exchange in 2018.
0Driven by the temptation of big ransom payments, a new ransomware called PwndLocker has started targeting the networks of businesses and local governments with ransom demands over $650,000.
0Ongoing scans for Apache Tomcat servers unpatched against the Ghostcat vulnerability that allows potential attackers to take over servers have been detected over the weekend.
0US drugstore chain giant Walgreens disclosed over the weekend that some of its mobile apps' users have been able to inadvertently access other users' sensitive information because of a bug.
0Ahead of schedule, Microsoft has started rolling out some of the new Fluent system icons to users running Windows 10 1909.
2A new Malware Evasion Encyclopedia has been launched that offers insight into the various methods malware uses to detect if it is running under a virtual environment.
0Microsoft hides file extensions in Windows by default even though it's a security risk that is commonly abused by phishing emails and malware distributors to trick people into opening malicious files.
4Over the past two weeks, we continue to see small towns, fire departments, hospitals, and companies being attacked by ransomware.
1RailWorks Corporation, one of North America's leading railroad track and transit system providers, disclosed a ransomware attack that led to the exposure of personally identifiable information of current and former employees, their beneficiaries and dependents, as well as that of independent contractors.
0NVIDIA has released a GPU display driver security update today, February 28, 2020, that fixes high and medium severity vulnerabilities that might lead to code execution, local escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and denial of service on unpatched Windows computers.
0A group of hackers is using the remote desktop ActiveX control in Word documents to automatically execute on Windows 10 a malware downloader called Ostap that was seen recently adopted by TrickBot for delivery.
2Hackers are attempting to take over tens of thousands of sites by exploiting critical WordPress plugin vulnerabilities that allow them to create rogue administrator accounts and to plant backdoors.
0The operators behind Sodinokibi Ransomware published download links to files containing what they claim is financial and work documents, as well as customers' personal data stolen from giant U.S. fashion house Kenneth Cole Productions.
1An Israeli marketing firm exposed 49 million unique email addresses after mishandling authentication credentials for an Elasticsearch database, that were sitting in plain text on an unprotected web server.
0Microsoft announced today that starting with Microsoft Edge 80.0.338.0 users will be able to have potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) automatically blocked from downloading.
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