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Google Disrupts Massive Glupteba Botnet, Sues Russian Operators Google announced today that it has taken action to disrupt the Glupteba botnet that now controls more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world, growing by thousands of new infected devices each day. Glupteba is a blockchain-enabled and modular malware that has been targeting Windows devices worldwide
27 flaws in USB-over-network SDK Affect Millions of Cloud Users Researchers have discovered 27 vulnerabilities in Eltima SDK, a library used by numerous cloud providers to remotely mount a local USB device. Due to the pandemic and the rising trend of working from home, organizations have begun to rely heavily on cloud-based services. This necessity
STOP Ransomware Vaccine Released to Block Encryption German security software company G DATA has released a vaccine that will block STOP Ransomware from encrypting victims’ files after infection. “This tool does not prevent the infection itself. STOP ransomware will still place ransom notes and may change settings on the systems,” G DATA malware analysts Karsten Hahn and John Parol explained.
QNAP Warns Users of Bitcoin Miner Targeting their NAS Devices QNAP warned customers today of ongoing attacks targeting their NAS (network-attached storage) devices with cryptomining malware, urging them to take measures to protect them immediately The cryptominer deployed in this campaign on compromised devices will create a new process named [oom_reaper] that will mine for Bitcoin cryptocurrency.