Cyber Attacks

Ransomware Hackers Responsible For Attacks On Over 100 Companies Arrested in Ukraine

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Ransomware operators in Ukraine have been apprehended by Law enforcement agencies. The joint exercise took place on the 28th day of September by officials from the French National Gendarmerie, the Ukrainian National Police, and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), alongside participation from the Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre and the INTERPOL’s Cyber Fusion Centre. […]

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Customer Service Desk: An Easy Access For Hackers To Exploit Your Organization

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The Customer service week which holds every 1st week of the month of October has come to be recognized as the week we celebrate the importance of customer service and importance of the people who serve and support customers on a daily basis. However in all of these celebrations lest we get carried away, do

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Hotels and Governments Worldwide New Targets of Hacker Group

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FamousSparrow as nicknamed by the cybersecurity firm ESET has been attributed as being responsible for strings of attacks against hotels across the world, government international organizations and law firms worldwide. This has been said to be active since August 2019 with victims spreading across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East with countries such as

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Feds Sanction SUEX for Aiding Ransomware Gangs

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The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Suex for helping facilitate and launder transactions from at least eight ransomware variants as part of the government’s efforts to crack down on a surge in ransomware incidents and make it difficult for bad actors to profit from such attacks using digital currencies.

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Sidewalk Malware Attacks Linked to Grayfly Chinese Hacker Group

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A previously undocumented backdoor that was recently found targeting an unnamed computer retail company based in the U.S. has been linked to a longstanding Chinese espionage operation dubbed Grayfly. In late August, Slovakian cybersecurity firm ESET disclosed details of an implant called SideWalk, which is designed to load arbitrary plugins sent from an attacker-controlled server,

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WIndows Users are Currently Targets of New 0-Day Attack Exploiting Microsoft Office Documents

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An actively exploited zero-day flaw Tracked as CVE-2021-40444 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been discovered to be impacting Internet Explorer. The remote code execution flaw is rooted in MSHTML (aka Trident), a proprietary browser engine for the now-discontinued Internet Explorer and which is used in Office to render web content inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.

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British Payroll Firm suffers Cyber-Attack

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Contractors have been left unpaid after a “sophisticated” cyber-attack forced British payroll company shut down. This was confirmed on September 24 by Giant Group that it had taken its network and its fully integrated IT infrastructure, phone and email systems offline last Wednesday after detecting suspicious activity In a statement published on its website September

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