The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed that it had experienced a cyber attack the previous Sunday, 15 March. This is particularly worrying as it comes at a time where both local and international health agencies are struggling to battle the ongoing spread of COVID-19, otherwi
It is by no means new news that governments around the world are been targeted by ransomware operators. Recently the US Coast Guard, Georgia Police Department, and the municipality of Jackson County have all fallen victim to a ransomware attack. This is not solely a problem experienced by US governm
As part of Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday a total of 99 vulnerabilities were patched. Much of the attention given to the event surrounded the patching of CVE-2020-0674, a zero-day vulnerability found in Internet Explorer that when exploited could potentially allow an attacker to execute arbitrar
The Ryuk ransomware continues to add high profile targets to its victim list. From the US Coast Guard to Fortune 500 companies, it would seem no company or organization is safe if the malware’s operators have the company in their sights. The latest to fall victim to a Ryuk infection is legal service
For hackers, whether the financially motivated or state-sponsored kind, the question of how to clean and safely use stolen funds is a major hurdle to jump. When banks and other financial institutions adopted know your client (KYC) rules as specified in numerous countries adopting similar pieces of l
At the RSA 2020 security conference in San Francisco security researchers from ESET disclosed a new vulnerability that impacts WiFi communications. Along with the presentation given by ESET the Slovakian based security firm also published a white paper detailing the discovered vulnerability, current
The last time this publication reported on the Raccoon info stealer malware, was when it was being dropped by Legion Loader as an additional payload along with several other malware variants. Raccoon has yet again popped up on the researcher’s radar, which is unsurprising given how popular on underg
In January 2012, the European Union (EU) began the long process of creating a framework for data protection reform. One of the proposals associated with these reforms was the legislation was titled the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The reforms were agreed upon in December 2015, and GDPR
Since 2015 the trojan LokiBot has been used by cybercriminals to create backdoors into Windows machines. Its continued popularity can be partly attributed to the various and often novel ways it has been distributed in the past and the tactics it employs to infect machines. In the past researchers ha
Often new developments on the malware front can be broadly defined into two categories those that involve unique methods to carry out its designed purpose and those that are not. The recent development of hackers threatening, and in some cases, releasing sensitive data to the public if ransomware ra