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Play Ransomware: A Rising Global Cybersecurity Threat

Play ransomware, also known as Balloonfly or PlayCrypt, has become a significant cybersecurity threat since its emergence in June 2022. Responsible for over 300 global...

FBI Warns of Rising Dual Ransomware Attacks

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FBI Warns of Rising Dual Ransomware Attacks

Dual ransomware attacks have become a new, alarming trend in a digital environment replete with cyber threats. Using this smart strategy, criminals target an institution twice,...

Ways in Which Online Merchants Scam Customers

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Ways in Which Online Merchants Scam Customers

When attempting to unsubscribe from an email newsletter that the user never subscribed to, one discovers a jumble of text—some of it practically grayed out—at the bottom...

Using Blatant Code, a New Nokoyawa Variant Sneaks up on Peers

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Using Blatant Code, a New Nokoyawa Variant Sneaks up on Peers

Nokoyawa is a new malware for Windows that first appeared early this year. The first samples gathered by FortiGuard researchers were constructed in February 2022 and contain...

Costa Rica's New Government is Under Attack by a Conti Ransomware Gang

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Costa Rica's New Government is Under Attack by a Conti Ransomware Gang

The Conti ransomware organization, which has hacked some Costa Rican government computer systems, has increased its threat, claiming that its ultimate goal is to overthrow...

Spanish FA Reported a Cyber Attack, Private Texts Seized

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Spanish FA Reported a Cyber Attack, Private Texts Seized

Police have been informed that the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has witnessed a cyber attack. In recent months, top leaders of the union, particularly president...

Data Stolen From Parker Hannifin was Leaked by the Conti Gang

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Data Stolen From Parker Hannifin was Leaked by the Conti Gang

Several gigabytes of data allegedly taken from US industrial components major Parker Hannifin have been leaked by a known Conti gang. Parker Hannifin is a motion and control...

Customers Threatened by a Data Breach at Hong Kong's Harbour Plaza Hotel

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Customers Threatened by a Data Breach at Hong Kong's Harbour Plaza Hotel

Hong Kong's privacy authority is looking into a hack against the Harbour Plaza hotel company, which revealed more than 1.2 million visitors' booking information. The investigation's...

Iranian Hackers Employs PowerShell Backdoor to Bypass Security Products

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Iranian Hackers Employs PowerShell Backdoor to Bypass Security Products

Security researchers from Cybereason have discovered that an advanced persistent threat organization with inbounds links to Iran has modified its malware toolset to incorporate...

The Medical Review Institute of America Alerts Patients of a Privacy Breach

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The Medical Review Institute of America Alerts Patients of a Privacy Breach

On November 9, 2021, MRIoA discovered that it had been the victim of a sophisticated cyber-attack that affected over 134,000 people, according to a data breach notification...

Unable to Encrypt Files, the Latest Memento Ransomware Resorts to Using WinRAR

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Unable to Encrypt Files, the Latest Memento Ransomware Resorts to Using WinRAR

Following the discovery of its encryption method via security tools, a new ransomware organization known as Memento took the unique strategy of encrypting files within password-protected...

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JSWorm: A Notorious Ransomware

The ransomware threat environment has been shifting over the last few years. Following the major ransomware outbreaks of 2017, such as WannaCry, NotPetya, and Bad Rabbit,...

LockBit Ransomware Emerging as a Dangerous Threat to Corporate Networks

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LockBit Ransomware Emerging as a Dangerous Threat to Corporate Networks

LockBit, a relatively new Ransomware that was first identified performing targeted attacks by Northwave Security in September 2019 veiled as.ABCD virus. The threat actors...

Emotet Botnet Operators Switching to a New Template Named ‘Red Dawn’

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Emotet Botnet Operators Switching to a New Template Named ‘Red Dawn’

Emotet malware has been continually evolving to the levels of technically sophisticated malware that has a major role in the expansion of the cybercrime ecosystem. First...

Lucy: A File Encryption Android Malware that for Ransomware Operations

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Lucy: A File Encryption Android Malware that for Ransomware Operations

A malware that attacks Android smartphones has increased its Maas (malware-as-a-service) operations with file encryption capabilities to carry out ransomware attacks. The...

L4NC34 Ransomware Teaches That Ransomware Attacks Ought To Never Be Trifled With

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L4NC34 Ransomware Teaches That Ransomware Attacks Ought To Never Be Trifled With

There is no denying the fact that whenever the word ransomware is mentioned computers are an instinctive afterthought to have been largely infected by the same. The...

New Malicious Program 'Nefilim' Threatens to Release Stolen User Data

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New Malicious Program 'Nefilim' Threatens to Release Stolen User Data

Nefilim, a new malicious program that basically is ransomware that functions by encrypting files on affected systems, has become active in the cyber ecosystem since February...

Alert! The Days of WhatsApp Are Gone? Stronger Competitor In The Market!

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Alert! The Days of WhatsApp Are Gone? Stronger Competitor In The Market!

Joy all around for the social media fanatics who had gotten quite bored of WhatsApp being their only source of incessant chatting provisions. And to those as well who felt...

Three Common Forms of Ransomware Infecting 1,800 businesses, Warns Dutch Govt

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Three Common Forms of Ransomware Infecting 1,800 businesses, Warns Dutch Govt

Around 1,800 companies are being affected by ransomware across the globe, according to a confidential report by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the Netherlands....

GetCrypt Ransomware: Modus Operandi and Solutions

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GetCrypt Ransomware: Modus Operandi and Solutions

A new ransomware is in the dark market which encrypts all the files on the device and redirects victims to the RIG exploit kit. It’s being installed via “Malvertising”...

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