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Microsoft profiles new threat group with unusual but effective practices

Microsoft profiles new threat group with unusual but effective practices

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Enlarge / This is not what a hacker looks like. Except on hacker cosplay night. Microsoft has been tracking a threat group that stands out for its ability to cash in from data theft hacks that use broad social engineering attacks, painstaking research, and occasional physical threats. Unlike many ransomware attack groups, Octo Tempest, as…
Feel-good story of the week: 2 ransomware gangs meet their demise

Feel-good story of the week: 2 ransomware gangs meet their demise

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From the warm-and-fuzzy files comes this feel-good Friday post, chronicling this week’s takedown of two hated ransomware groups. One vanished on Tuesday, allegedly after being hacked by a group claiming allegiance to Ukraine. The other was taken out a day later thanks to an international police dragnet. The first group, calling itself Trigona, saw the…
Real estate markets scramble following cyberattack on listings provider

Real estate markets scramble following cyberattack on listings provider

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Enlarge / MLS (Multiple Listing Service). Getty Images Home buyers, sellers, real estate agents, and listing websites throughout the US have been stymied for five days by a cyberattack on a California company that provides a crucial online service used to track home listings. The attack, which commenced last Wednesday, hit Rapottoni, a software and…
You Can Get Norton 360 and LifeLock for $25 Right Now

You Can Get Norton 360 and LifeLock for $25 Right Now

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Image: NortonWhile there’s no single program that can prevent identity theft, Norton 360 and LifeLock are good options if you’re looking for antivirus software and identity theft protection, and right now you can get your first year of Norton 360 Standard and LifeLock Identity Advisor for $24.99 on two devices (reg. $109.99). Norton 360 helps…
TSMC says some of its data was swept up in a hack on a hardware supplier

TSMC says some of its data was swept up in a...

Chipmaker TSMC said on Friday that one of its hardware suppliers experienced a “security incident” that allowed the attackers to obtain configurations and settings for some of the servers the company uses in its corporate network. The disclosure came a day after the LockBit ransomware crime syndicate listed TSMC on its extortion site and threatened…
Mass exploitation of critical MOVEit flaw is ransacking orgs big and small

Mass exploitation of critical MOVEit flaw is ransacking orgs big and...

Getty Images Organizations big and small are falling prey to the mass exploitation of a critical vulnerability in a widely used file-transfer program. The exploitation started over the Memorial Day holiday—while the critical vulnerability was still a zeroday—and continues now, some nine days later. As of Monday evening, payroll service Zellis, the Canadian province of…
Apple’s Macs have long escaped ransomware, but that may be changing

Apple’s Macs have long escaped ransomware, but that may be changing

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Getty Images Security researchers are examining newly discovered Mac ransomware samples from the notorious gang LockBit, marking the first known example of a prominent ransomware group toying with macOS versions of its malware. Ransomware is a pervasive threat, but attackers typically don't bother creating versions of their malware to target Macs. That's because Apple's computers,…
Ransomware crooks are exploiting IBM file exchange bug with a 9.8 severity

Ransomware crooks are exploiting IBM file exchange bug with a 9.8...

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Threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability in an IBM file-exchange application in hacks that install ransomware on servers, security researchers have warned. The IBM Aspera Faspex is a centralized file-exchange application that large organizations use to transfer large files or large volumes of files at very high speeds. Rather than relying on TCP-based technologies…
Up to 29,000 unpatched QNAP storage devices are sitting ducks to ransomware

Up to 29,000 unpatched QNAP storage devices are sitting ducks to...

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As many as 29,000 network storage devices manufactured by Taiwan-based QNAP are vulnerable to hacks that are easy to carry out and give unauthenticated users on the Internet complete control, a security firm has warned. The vulnerability, which carries a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10, came to light on Monday, when…
Most criminal cryptocurrency is funneled through just 5 exchanges

Most criminal cryptocurrency is funneled through just 5 exchanges

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Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images For years, the cryptocurrency economy has been rife with black market sales, theft, ransomware, and money laundering—despite the strange fact that in that economy, practically every transaction is written into a blockchain’s permanent, unchangeable ledger. But new evidence suggests that years of advancements in blockchain tracing and crackdowns on that illicit underworld…

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