Miscreants are wasting no time in using the widespread Log4j vulnerability to compromise systems, with waves and waves of live exploit attempts focused mainly – for now – on turning infected devices into cryptocurrency-mining botnet …
Kronos Private Cloud has been hit by a ransomware attack. The company, also known as Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), provides timekeeping services to companies employing millions across worldwide. Emails sent by Kronos to its corporate …
Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) was almost paralysed by ransomware after a single user opened a malicious file attached to a phishing email, a consultancy’s damning report has revealed. Issued today, the report from PWC …
Almost a third of the world wide web’s top million sites are still not using HTTPS by default, according to infosec researcher Scott Helme’s analysis. In his Top 1 Million Analysis, in which he runs …
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Australia’s Federal Police force has revealed more about how it distributed a backdoored chat app to criminals. The app, named An0m, was revealed in June 2021 when Australia’s Feds (AFP), the FBI and European authorities …
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Smartphone payment provider LINE Pay announced yesterday that around 133,000 users’ payment details were mistakenly published on GitHub between September and November of this year. Files detailing participants in a LINE Pay promotional program staged …
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The Apple iPhones of at least nine US State Department officials were compromised by an unidentified entity using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to a report published Friday by Reuters. NSO Group in an email …
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FluBot, a family of Android malware, is circulating again via SMS messaging, according to authorities in Finland. The Nordic country’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC-FI) lately warned that scam messages written in Finnish are being …
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Lloyd’s of London may no longer extend insurance cover to companies affected by acts of war, and new clauses drafted for providers of so-called “cyber” insurance are raising the spectre of organisations caught in tit-for-tat …
Wind turbine maker Vestas says “almost all” of its IT systems are finally up and running 10 days after a security attack by criminals, confirming that it had indeed fallen victim to ransomware. Alarm bells …
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Australia’s government has announced it will compel social media companies to reveal the identities of users who post material considered defamatory. Prime minister Scott Morrison phrased the planned legislation as creating a power “to unmask …
The US Dept of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security has added 27 companies to its list of entities prohibited from doing business with the USA on grounds they threaten national security – and one …