Linux-Focused Cryptojacking Gang Tracked to Romania
The gang is using a new brute-forcer – “Diicot brute” – to crack passwords on Linux-based machines with weak passwords.
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Is Remote Desktop Protocol Secure? It Can Be
Matt Dunn, associate managing director in Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice, discusses options for securing RDP, which differ significantly in terms of effectiveness.
New CISA Director Confirmed, White House Gains Cyber-Director
Jen Easterly, former NSA official and Morgan Stanley vet, will take up the lead at CISA as the ransomware scourge rages on.
Word and Excel documents are enlisted to disable Office macro warnings, so the Zloader banking malware can be downloaded onto systems without security tools flagging it.
Notorious North Korean APT impersonates Airbus, General Motors and Rheinmetall to lure potential victims into downloading malware.
David “moose” Wolpoff, CTO at Randori, discusses security appliances and VPNs and how attackers only have to “pick one lock” to invade an enterprise through them.
The newborn platform was inundated by Sonic the Hedgehog-themed porn and had prominent users’ profiles defaced. Next, hackers posted its user database online.
Say hello to one more zero-day and yet more potential remote data death for those who can’t/won’t upgrade their My Cloud storage devices.
REvil ransomware gang lowers price for universal decryptor after massive worldwide ransomware push against Kaseya security vulnerability CVE-2021-30116.
Criminals behind the potent REvil ransomware have ported the malware to Linux for targeted attacks.
