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The Week in Ransomware – December 10th 2021 – Project CODA This week has quite a bit of ransomware news, including arrests, a new and sophisticated ransomware, and an attack bringing down 300 supermarkets in England. This week’s biggest story is a law enforcement operation conducted by the FBI and Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) that arrested
Phishing Attacks Use QR Codes to Steal Banking Credentials A new phishing campaign that targets German e-banking users has been underway in the last couple of weeks, involving QR codes in the credential-snatching process. The actors are using a range of tricks to bypass security solutions and convince their targets to open the messages and
Volvo Cars Discloses Security Breach Leading to R&D Data Theft Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars has disclosed that unknown attackers have stolen research and development information after hacking some of its servers. “Volvo Cars has become aware that one of its file repositories has been illegally accessed by a third party,” the company disclosed today. “Investigations
Minecraft Rushes Out Patch for Critical Log4j Vulnerability Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios has released an emergency Minecraft security update to address a critical bug in the Apache Log4j Java logging library used by the game’s Java Edition client and multiplayer servers. The vulnerability is fixed with the release of Minecraft: Java Edition 1.18.1, which is