North Carolina City Offices Crippled by Robbinhood The City of Greenville, North Carolina, was struck with ransomware on April 10, 2019. The ransomware variant, called Robbinhood, left the city with no choice but to shutdown their networks. Fortunately, even with their networks offline, public safety systems remained in tact. The extent of the damage due […]
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Triton Wormed Their Way Into Another Critical Infrastructure, and Possibly Many More… The advanced hacker group, Triton, was responsible for an attack on a Saudi petrochemical plant in 2017. The attack would have been successful in destroying the facility, except there was a bug in Triton malware’s coding. Now, years later, researchers have confirmed finding
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Tax Evasion Scam Spreads, and Hackers Want Paid — or Else… Extortion emails have increased in popularity lately, starting with the massive sextortion campaign that began earlier this year. Now, a new extortion scam is underway that claims the victim’s computer was hacked. Then, upon being hacked, it was determined taxes were being hidden from the
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Advanced Malware, Baldr, Targets Key Locations to Extract Vital Data An advanced malware variant designed to steal information, deemed Baldr, is being sold on various cybercrime forums on the dark web. The malicious software is sold for a mere $150, and appears to be carefully crafted. Based on the research completed to date, the creators
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Russian Hackers Move From Skimmers to Ransomware by Exploiting Vulnerable RDP Ports FIN6, a Russian cybercrime group that has historically focused on attacking point-of-sale (POS) devices to steal credit card data, is now expanding their portfolio into ransomware distribution. Over the last three years, the hacking group has targeted the hospitality and retail industries, successfully
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Banking Trojan TrickBot Spreads Like Wildfire For years, cyber criminals have increased spam campaigns around tax time, in an attempt to make a quick buck. This year is no different. Cyber criminals have begun distributing the banking Trojan, TrickBot, through malicious emails fraudulently portraying tax and payroll services. Researchers confirmed the malware has been used
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It’s not the first time students breached a school’s network, and likely won’t be the last… ust last month, Michigan students hacked into their school’s system to change their grades and attendance records. Then, an Ohio student broke into their school’s system using a teacher’s credentials, and used the access to create a “hit-list” of students that
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Reddit User Bypasses Samsung Galaxy’s Fingerprint Security with 3D Imaging The newly-enhanced fingerprint scanner feature in the Samsung Galaxy S10 is not as secure as the Korean company claims it to be. Recently, a Reddit user who goes by darkshark9, found the scanner could be tricked into unlocking the device with the help of a
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Earlier this week the empire state’s capital, Albany, was paralyzed by ransomware. Now, just days later, the fifth largest county in Michigan, Genesee county, suffered a ransomware attack. Very few details are being released at this time, as the cyber attack is still quite fresh. However, here is what we do know — County officials
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In an attempt to draw attention to the security gaps found in many medical imaging devices, like CT or MRI machines, Israeli researchers have developed a malware specifically designed to exploit the vulnerability. The Malware Variant The malware they created would allow cyber criminals to add realistic, malignant-seeming growths to imaging scans before radiologists and doctors examine
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