The list of high profile companies and government departments hit by ransomware infections continues to grow at an alarming rate. Last week this publication covered how the City of Joburg municipality of Johannesburg South Africa was hit by hackers demanding a ransom. Although it seems no specific p
Since the operators of GandCrab ceased operations, a void in the Malware-as-a-Service sector was left open. Since proving how effective it could be to rent out ransomware as well as partner up with other cybercriminal syndicates to improve distribution, for example, other malware authors have been l
On Monday 28, 2019, news began emerging on Twitter that the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) might have been infected with a dangerous strain of malware. Pukhraj Singh, a former security analyst for India's National Technical Research Organization (NTRO) and researcher closely following the mat
While not one of the Republic of South Africa’s capitals, Johannesburg is the country’s largest city in terms of size, populace, and GDP contribution. The city now has another less pleasant feather in its cap, the city has now experienced a novel method of cyber-attack. On October 24, the City annou
For many, the advent of home speakers like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home were must-have tech devices. Their simplicity centered round voice activation technology was hailed in some corners. In other more skeptical corners, privacy concerns dominate the debate. For security researchers searching for
Before the Czech security firm Avast acquired Piriform, the company which developed and maintained the popular registry cleaner CCleaner, the popular product had been compromised. The compromise occurred in 2017 before Avast acquired the popular product, with later analysis revealing that the infamo
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that through the cooperation of US, South Korean, and other law enforcement agencies across the globe, they have managed to take down a Dark Web child pornography website along with the arrest of the individual running the site. Further, the DoJ rescued s
If you have installed a program called JMT Trader to facilitate cryptocurrency trades you got far more than you bargained for. Last week the MalwarehunterTeam discovered a scam developed to distribute malware to both Mac and Windows machines. The scammer created a fake company to distribute a free c
In a warning issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) cyber division private industries have been warned about attack able to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). According to the law enforcement agency, this is done through a combination of social engineering and SIM Swapping tool
Since the first Magecart style attacks were detected in 2010 there have been over 2 million detections since then. These attacks continue to rise presenting a greater danger to online shopper unaware their credit card information can be stolen from their favorite eCommerce websites. Rather than Mage