Conti Ransomware Shuts Down Operation, Rebrands into Smaller Units The notorious Conti ransomware gang has officially shut down their operation, with infrastructure taken offline and team leaders told that the brand is no more. This news comes from Advanced Intel’s Yelisey Boguslavskiy, who tweeted this afternoon that the gang’s internal infrastructure was Read more…
Netgear Fixes Bad Orbi Firmware Update that Locked Admin Console Netgear is pushing out fixes for a bad Orbi firmware update released earlier this month that prevents users from accessing the device’s admin console. On April 27th, Netgear released firmware update 4.6.8.2 for the Orbi RBR750, Orbi RBS750, Orbi RBR850, Read more…
Microsoft Emergency Updates Fix Windows AD Authentication Issues Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band (OOB) updates to address Active Directory (AD) authentication issues after installing Windows Updates issued during the May 2022 Patch Tuesday on domain controllers. The company has been working on a fix for this known issue causing authentication failures for some Windows services since May Read more…
Media Giant Nikkei’s Asian Unit Hit by Ransomware Attack Publishing giant Nikkei disclosed that the group’s headquarters in Singapore was hit by a ransomware attack almost one week ago, on May 13, 2022. “Unauthorized access to the server was first detected on May 13, prompting an internal probe,” the company Read more…
Microsoft Detects Massive Surge in Linux XorDDoS Malware Activity A stealthy and modular malware used to hack into Linux devices and build a DDoS botnet has seen a massive 254% increase in activity during the last six months, as Microsoft revealed today. This malware (active since at least 2014) is known Read more…
U.S. DOJ will No Longer Prosecute Ethical Hackers Under CFAA The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a revision of its policy on how federal prosecutors should charge violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), carving out “good-fath” security research from being prosecuted. With this policy update, Read more…
Lazarus Hackers Target VMware Servers with Log4Shell Exploits The North Korean hacking group known as Lazarus is exploiting the Log4J remote code execution vulnerability to inject backdoors that fetch information-stealing payloads on VMware Horizon servers. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-44228, aka Log4Shell, and impacts many products, including VMware Horizon. The Read more…
Phishing Websites Now Use Chatbots to Steal your Credentials Phishing attacks are now using automated chatbots to guide visitors through the process of handing over their login credentials to threat actors. This approach automates the process for attackers and gives a sense of legitimacy to visitors of the malicious sites, as chatbots Read more…
Microsoft Teams, Windows 11 Hacked on First Day of Pwn2Own During the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022, contestants won $800,000 after successfully exploiting 16 zero-day bugs to hack multiple products, including Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system and the Teams communication platform. The first to fall was Microsoft Teams in the enterprise communications category Read more…
QNAP Alerts NAS Customers of New DeadBolt Ransomware Attacks Taiwan-based network-attached storage (NAS) maker QNAP warned customers on Thursday to secure their devices against attacks pushing DeadBolt ransomware payloads. The company asked users to update their NAS devices to the latest software version and ensure that they’re not exposed to remote access Read more…
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