There is a new encryption ransomware exploit hiding inside a spoofed copy of the popular Chinese game “King of Glory.” Right now, this malware is affecting users in China, but it is a matter of time before another cyber-criminal group modifies it for English speaking victims.
This game is available on international gaming forums, and is being spread when gamers download a copy to ...
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Are you sick and tired of having to have your computer restored after every malware infection? Looking for a way to fend off crypto-ransomware attacks for good? Then Windows 10 S may be for you.
Windows 10 S is a new, stripped down and hardened version of the popular operating system. This is a great option for computer users who mostly use computers for searching the web and reading email. The ...
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A post about an alert I received first from AlienVault, and then from everybody. There is a new crypto-ransomware variant called Wanna Cry that is taking advantage of a recent Microsoft vulnerability that was patched back on March 14. If your computers have not been updated with MS17-010, then those computers are vulnerable. Microsoft considers this vulnerability significant enough to release it for Windows XP, even though official support ended over ...
When you work in a cybersecurity organization that serves other business entities, every now and again you see something really unique. This one crossed my desk on March 28th. A client of ours received a letter by postal mail that threatened to shut them down with a distributed denial of service attack. They are probably trying to avoid the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, but extortion by postal mail is ...
2017 is promising to be another difficult year for cyber-defenders who are protecting company and government networks from attack. Here are what I think will be the top attack vectors this year.
Business Email Compromise
CEOs and other C suite officers will increasingly be targeted for email account hijacking. This is an easy exploit to run because high ranking employees and officers often ...
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Early on Jan. 9, about 12,000 MongoDB database servers were compromised. Later the number rose to 28,000 servers. As many as 46,000 servers are vulnerable to this attack.
A cyber-criminal using the alias “Harak1r1” exploited a weakness in the default installation of the popular database solution, MongoDB. He demanded a 0.2BTC ransom ($220) to return the data he exfiltrated from thousands of victim systems. Older installations of MongoDB that were deployed via cloud hosting services in an insecure default configuration ...
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