A patch warning from ConnectWise, the latest ransomware news, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, February 21st, 2024. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. Business applications provider ConnectWise is urging IT administrators to take quick action to patch two critical vulnerabilities. They are in […]
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Eight months ago, Geoffrey Hinton, the esteemed professor emeritus at the University of Toronto who resigned his post at Google over concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) advances, stated in a speech at Collision 2023 that the world is “entering a period of huge uncertainty.” When he speaks, people listen, due in large part to the […]
VMware urged admins today to remove a discontinued authentication plugin exposed to authentication relay and session hijack attacks in Windows domain environments via two security vulnerabilities left unpatched. […]
A team of academic researchers show that a new set of attacks called ‘VoltSchemer’ can inject voice commands to manipulate a smartphone’s voice assistant through the magnetic field emitted by an off-the-shelf wireless charger. […]
Security researchers discovered a new campaign that targets Redis servers on Linux hosts using a piece of malware called ‘Migo’ to mine for cryptocurrency. […]
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Feds Seize LockBit Ransomware Websites, Offer Decryption Tools, Troll Affiliates
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U.S. and U.K. authorities have seized the darknet websites run by LockBit, a prolific and destructive ransomware group that has claimed more than 2,000 victims worldwide and extorted over $120 million in payments. Instead of listing data stolen from ransomware victims who didn’t pay, LockBit’s victim shaming website now offers free recovery tools, as well […]
ConnectWise warned customers to patch their ScreenConnect servers immediately against a maximum severity flaw that can be used in remote code execution (RCE) attacks. […]
The alleged source code for the third iteration of the Knight ransomware is being offered for sale to a single buyer on a hacker forum by a representative of the operation. […]
The cybercrime ecosystem has created a supply chain of stolen accounts and breached networks that are used to fuel ransomware attacks and data breaches. Learn more from Flare about how this supply chain has led to an explosion of cybercrime. […]
PSI Software SE, a German software developer for complex production and logistics processes, has confirmed that the cyber incident it disclosed last week is a ransomware attack that impacted its internal infrastructure. […]