This story is doing the rounds everywhere. A joint effort between ESET and Ukraine Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-UA) defeated the attack, discovering a new variant of the Industroyer malware – which was used in a previous attack on the Ukrainian power grid in December 2016. This malware is associated …
A Google story – this time they are going after the scammers – UPDATED
This story was first posted on 11 April 2022. A simple story – Google is taking a bad actor to court that has been using their systems to run their scams. Hounding scammers with litigation (blog.google) UPDATE Here are some details of the scam. Google sues alleged scam site operator …
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Are your patches and updates being done everywhere?
Patch Tuesday has come around again – and time for you check that ALL your updates and patches are up to date – not just your Microsoft ones. I know they are supposed to happen automatically but check anyway! Microsoft April 2022 Patch Tuesday – Sans Internet Storm Centre Microsoft’s …
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Pegasus spyware cyberweapon software targeted at European Commission officials
There are reports of the commercial spyware, Pegasus, being targeted at European Commission officials last year, by as yet unidentified hackers. European officials reportedly targeted by NSO spyware • The Register Pegasus is commercially available from the Israeli company NSO Group, to “approved” organisations.
Spring4Shell in the wild executing the Mirai botnet
Hackers have been actively working to exploit the Spring4Shell vulnerability – now it has been detected in the wild deploying the Mirai botnet. Spring4Shell under active exploit by Mirai botnet herders • The Register CVE-2022-22965 Analyzing the Exploitation of Spring4Shell Vulnerability in Weaponizing and Executing the Mirai Botnet Malware (trendmicro.com) …
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