Originally published June 5, 2021 Access Now deplores the government of Nigeria’s suspension of Twitter operations in the country, and demands all services be fully reinstated for all. Authorities implemented the shutdown on June 4 …
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A Leeds-based claims management firm has been fined £200,000 for making more than 11 million unwanted PPI calls, the UK’s data watchdog announced today. The investigation, prompted by complaints to the Information Comissioner’s Office (ICO) …
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An ongoing brute-force attack campaign targeting enterprise cloud environments has been spearheaded by the Russian military intelligence since mid-2019, according to a joint advisory published by intelligence agencies in the U.K. and U.S. The National …
NSA, FBI Reveal Hacking Methods Used by Russian Military Hackers Read More »
Microsoft on Thursday officially confirmed that the “PrintNightmare” remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting Windows Print Spooler is different from the issue the company addressed as part of its Patch Tuesday update released earlier this …
Microsoft Warns of Critical “PrintNightmare” Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild Read More »
After announcing their exit from the ransomware business in favor of data theft extortion, the Babuk gang appears to have slipped back into their old habit of encrypting corporate networks. The criminals are currently using …
Babuk ransomware is back, uses new version on corporate networks Read More »
Netgear has patched serious security vulnerabilities in its DGN2200v1 network router, following the discovery of “very odd behaviour” by a Microsoft security research team – a somewhat understated way of saying that attackers can gain …
Microsoft warns of serious vulnerabilities in Netgear’s DGN2200v1 router Read More »
FortiGuard Labs security researchers have linked a new ransomware strain dubbed Diavol to Wizard Spider, the cybercrime group behind the Trickbot botnet. Diavol and Conti ransomware payloads were deployed on different systems in a ransomware …
Trickbot cybercrime group linked to new Diavol ransomware Read More »
Europol, the US Department of Justice, and Britain’s National Crime Agency have taken down a VPN service they claimed was mainly used by criminals – boasting that they hoovered up “personal information, logs and statistics” …
An underground virtual private network (VPN) service used by cyber criminals to hide their activities while conducting ransomware attacks, phishing campaigns and other malicious hacking operations has been taken down in a major international law …
This VPN service used by ransomware gangs was just taken down by police Read More »
Mullvad (https://mullvad.net/) just released version 2021.4 of their VPN app. You can download the app from https://mullvad.net/en/download/.
We got an e-mail from Sofia and the tone in her mail made us have to visit https://www.wizcase.com/blog/ultimate-online-privacy-guide-for-journalists/ which she mentions in the email. It took a while before we understood what the blog post …
Russian state hackers compromised Denmark’s central bank (Danmarks Nationalbank) and planted malware that gave them access to the network for more than half a year without being detected. The breach was part of the SolarWinds …
Russian hackers had months-long access to Denmark’s central bank Read More »