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Cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released today a free tool that can help victims of the Darkside ransomware recover their encrypted files for free, without paying the ransom demand. The tool, available for download from the Bitdefender site, along with usage Read More …
On December 13, 2020, FireEye published a blog post detailing a supply chain attack leveraging Orion IT, an infrastructure monitoring and management platform by SolarWinds. In parallel, Volexity published an article with their analysis of related attacks, attributed to an Read More …
When hostile actors penetrated the Capitol Building on January 6, they gained access to individual chambers and offices and remained at large within the Capitol complex for well over two hours. We have reports that items were stolen. One report Read More …
Today, researchers have responsibly disclosed a security vulnerability by exploiting which they could access over 100,000 private employee records of United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). The data breach stemmed from exposed Git directories and credentials, which allowed the researchers to Read More …
Parler has dropped offline after Amazon pulled support for its so-called “free speech” social network. The platform had been reliant on the tech giant’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter. It is popular Read More …
People are being warned about a fake NHS text which is demanding bank details from people waiting for a coronavirus vaccine. Liverpool City Council said in a “scam alert” that the message had been “circulating”, advising people they were eligible Read More …
We recently spotted new attacks where, again, threat actors used shell scripts to perform their malicious activities. Based on previous attacks, these malicious scripts were typically used to deploy cryptocurrency miners. But recent cases involving these fresh samples highlighted how Read More …
The United States Judiciary has announced an audit into its systems, following concerns its case file system has been compromised. In making the announcement, the Judiciary said the Administrative Office of the US Courts was working with the Department of Read More …
Multiple code repositories from Nissan North America became public this week after the company left an exposed Git server protected with default access credentials. The entire collection is around 20 gigabytes large and contains source code for mobile apps and Read More …
Nvidia has released a round of security fixes tackling high-severity issues in the Nvidia GPU display driver and vGPU software. Released on Thursday, the technology giant said the patches deal with issues that “may lead to denial of service, escalation Read More …
