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On Wednesday afternoon New South Wales (NSW) police unit has disclosed an apparent ransomware attack on the New South Wales labor party. Global cybercriminals group has given a 10 days timeline to the labor party to pay a ransom or else the illicitly accessed credentials will be put into the public domain including driver’s licenses, […]
Continue Reading94.7% of IT leaders saw an impact to their work-from-home data protection as a result of COVID-19, according to IDC. The survey also unearthed that 90.8% of respondents point to modernizing data protection, including backup and disaster recovery, as a top IT priority that is crucial to their organizations’ overall digital transformation. Additionally, the survey […]
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In a surge of cyberattacks that began last week, a new ransomware group known as ‘N3TW0RM’ is targeting Israeli companies. N3TW0RM, like other ransomware gangs, has set up a data leak platform where they threaten to release stolen files to threaten victims into paying a ransom. At least four Israeli companies and one nonprofit […]
Continue ReadingBy Waqas Hackread.com can confirm that hackers from the Avaddon ransomware gang are claiming to have gained access to “tens of thousands” of SIM cards. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Avaddon hackers steal SIM card data from Telstra service provider Source: hack read com
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Swiss Cloud, a Switzerland-based cloud hosting provider, suffered a ransomware attack that seriously impacted its server infrastructure. The incident took place on Tuesday, April 27, according to Swiss Cloud’s status page. The company, which is one of Switzerland’s major hosting providers, said on Friday in an update posted on its website that it’s working […]
Continue ReadingIran-linked ATP group carried out a ransomware operation through a contracting company based in the country, Flashpoint researchers warn. Researchers from Flashpoint have uncovered a state-sponsored ransomware campaign conducted by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) through an Iranian contracting company called “Emen Net Pasargard” (ENP) (aka “Imannet Pasargad,” “Iliant Gostar Iranian,” “Eeleyanet Gostar Iraniyan”). […]
Continue ReadingThe cybersecurity research team at FireEye has recently detected back to back three vulnerability in Sonicwall’s email security software. In a regular analysis, the experts have again detected that a threat group, UNC2447, is financially very motivated is continuously exploiting SonicWall VPN zero-day (CVE-2021-20016) vulnerability. According to the report from FireEye, this vulnerability is prior […]
Continue Reading35% of UK IT decision makers admitted that their remote workers have already knowingly put corporate data at risk of a breach in the last year according to an annual survey conducted by Apricorn. This is concerning given that over one in ten surveyed IT decision makers also noted that they either have no control […]
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The Babuk ransomware group has decided to close the affiliate program and switch to an extortion model that does not rely on encrypting victim computers, according to a new message sent out today by the gang. The clarification comes after the group posted and then deleted two announcements yesterday about their intention to close […]
Continue ReadingSwiss cloud hosting provider Swiss Cloud has suffered a ransomware attack that seriously impacted its server infrastructure. On April 27 the Swiss cloud hosting provider was hit by a ransomware attack that brought down the company’s server infrastructure. The company is currently working to restore operations from its backups with the help of experts from […]
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